About Andrea
Andrea Baker is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 23 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, depressed, or overwhelmed by life changes. She also supports those coping with trauma, grief, parenting struggles, sleep problems, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and relationship or family concerns.
Andrea’s early work focused on children in therapeutic foster care where she taught life and parenting skills. She then spent many years in hospital settings helping people facing acute medical crises.
How Andrea works
That background informs her calm, practical approach to difficult situations. In sessions she listens first and tailors the plan to each person. She uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the individual.
She pairs this with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful patterns and with solution-focused steps to set achievable goals. Andrea also incorporates trauma-focused methods when past events affect day-to-day functioning. Motivational interviewing techniques help people find their own reasons to change and stick with plans.
Across these approaches she emphasizes clear communication, coping skills, and building confidence. Her work often centers on real-life problems like caregiving stress, chronic illness, adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, and transitions such as divorce or aging. Andrea aims to make therapy straightforward and useful, helping people take the next practical step toward feeling better.
Andrea lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Andrea works with
The areas below are the ones Andrea selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How Andrea’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s priorities. The therapist follows the client’s lead and builds on existing strengths to guide sessions toward what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches clear tools to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve sleep.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Andrea will discuss your goals and preferences, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan as you make progress. Together you decide which techniques feel useful and practical for daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when video is difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, short questions, or handling issues between longer sessions. These options help people stay consistent while balancing work, caregiving, or medical appointments.
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