About Natalie
Natalie Baker is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey with 18 years of experience in mental health. She uses a person-centered approach and meets people where they are. Natalie aims to help clients recognize their own value and build goals that fit their life.
Natalie has worked across hospitals, residential programs, schools, partial care, and outpatient settings. That variety shaped a practical style that focuses on what helps day to day.
How Natalie works
Sessions tend to be collaborative and straightforward. She draws on evidence-based methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy when they match a person’s needs. Natalie also uses client-centered principles to keep the work focused on each person’s values and strengths.
Common concerns she addresses include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, ADHD, grief, and burnout. She also supports people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, career transitions, and questions about gender identity. Natalie pays attention to attachment wounds, abandonment, codependency, dissociation, and family of origin issues.
She has experience with caregiver stress, immigration-related concerns, isolation, hearing impairment, and autism or Asperger syndrome features. Her sessions emphasize increasing self-understanding, improving internal communication, and growing self-compassion. Natalie works with each person to set goals and choose approaches that fit their life and values.
Natalie lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Natalie works with
The areas below are the ones Natalie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Using evidence-based approaches in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take action toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing thought and behavior patterns and trying new responses to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental, supportive relationship where the therapist reflects and listens so people can explore their own goals and strengths.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Natalie will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time and checks in about what is helping and what should change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and longer sessions. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work for shorter exchanges, progress updates, and ongoing support between fuller sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different routines while using the approaches described above.
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