About David
David Baker is a counsellor with 12 years of experience supporting people through difficult moments. He draws on a range of approaches to meet each person's needs and offers sessions online for convenience. He is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
David trained in person-centred practice at Warwick University and has since broadened his approach to include existential ideas and attachment perspectives. He describes his work as collaborative and aims to match the way he works to what each person needs.
How David works
Sessions tend to focus on immediate problems while also looking at longer term patterns when helpful. People come to him with many concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief, relationship difficulties and addiction. He also supports those facing trauma, sexual or physical abuse, eating and sleeping issues, and challenges with intimacy or self-esteem.
Additional focus areas include managing career stress, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. David has experience in both voluntary and charity settings, including bereavement work, as well as independent practice in the United Kingdom. His background means he is used to offering short-term and longer-term support depending on what someone wants to work on.
In sessions he uses concrete conversation and practical steps alongside reflective listening. People can expect a calm, non-judgemental space to talk through what matters to them and to try new ways of coping or relating. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life.
International clients may be accommodated and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
David lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What David works with
The areas below are the ones David selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current ways of connecting; it can help when trust, closeness or repeated patterns cause distress. Client-centred therapy places the person at the centre of the conversation, using empathic listening to help them find their own answers and build self-understanding. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and offers practical strategies to change them, which can be useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life stresses.Choosing the right approach is part of the process and will be a collaborative decision. The therapist will talk through the options, consider the difficulties you bring, and try methods that match your goals and preferences. Over time the plan can be adjusted if something is not working.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is close to an in-person conversation, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits shorter check-ins or when writing feels easier than talking. These options increase flexibility, reduce travel time and let people choose how they want to work.
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