Heather Baker
Compassionate, skills-focused care for life’s challenges
LPC Tennessee
- Experience
- 6 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Heather
Heather Baker is an LPC based in Tennessee who focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem struggles, grief, parenting challenges, ADHD, and LGBT-related issues.
Background and approach
With six years of clinical experience, she blends practical skill-building with compassionate listening to help clients better understand what contributes to their current difficulties and to practice tools that support change. She draws from cognitive behavioral therapy along with client-centered principles, dialectical behavior therapy, EMDR, and mindfulness approaches to tailor care to each person’s needs.
Heather emphasizes collaboration, treating clients as experts in their own lives while offering clinical guidance and concrete strategies for coping, communication, and emotion regulation. Her work also addresses intersecting areas such as chronic pain and illness, codependency, communication problems, and life transitions.
Clients can expect a warm, nonjudgmental stance that honors cultural and spiritual perspectives while remaining direct about clinical observations. Heather aims to combine insight into the origins of symptoms with practical exercises so clients can build resilience and move toward meaningful change.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Heather commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR alongside client-centered techniques. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression, while EMDR is an approach used to process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional intensity. Client-centered work emphasizes a respectful, empathetic environment in which the therapist follows the client's lead and supports their goals.Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. Heather works with clients to explore which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adapts interventions over time as progress and priorities evolve.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility and access. These formats make it possible to continue consistent work around scheduling constraints, allow for skill practice between sessions, and provide multiple ways for clients to engage with therapy depending on what feels most helpful.
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Experience
6+ years
Licensed
Tennessee
Languages
English