About Amanda
Dr. Amanda Baker offers calm, practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, relationship pain, and sexual concerns.
Background and approach
She writes clearly and listens carefully to what matters most. Her style aims to make therapy feel manageable, not overwhelming, so clients can take small steps toward change.
She brings ten years of clinical experience and holds a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential (LMFT) in New York. That background means she has worked with many common and complex concerns such as trauma, infidelity, addictions, parenting strain, and issues around intimacy and identity.
In sessions she uses a client-centered stance. That means she follows each person’s pace and priorities.
She helps clients identify strengths, set realistic goals, and try concrete skills between sessions. Dr.
Baker also draws on therapies that target thoughts, emotions, and relationships. She blends approaches to match what a client needs, such as strategies for managing anxiety, addressing attachment patterns, or improving communication in relationships.
Practical matters are part of her work too. She supports people who are coping with life changes, career stress, low self-esteem, or compassion fatigue.
She also offers guidance around kink and alternative sexual culture in a nonjudgmental way. Her aim is to guide people toward clearer choices and greater resilience.
She involves clients in planning their care and adjusts methods based on what is actually helping in session.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions because it focuses on action aligned with personal goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It teaches practical strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and build new routines for managing anxiety, depression, and impulsivity.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns that formed in early relationships and how they affect current bonds. It can help with intimacy concerns, communication problems, and family of origin issues by increasing understanding and changing interaction patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dr. Baker will discuss options, try methods that match your goals, and adjust based on what helps most. She involves the client in choosing techniques and monitors progress so the plan stays useful.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow real-time conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing through thoughts helps. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people fit care into their routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English