Dr. Amanda Baker , LMFT

Dr. Amanda Baker is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in New York. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma, depression, and issues related to sexuality and identity. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at helping clients feel heard and find practical next steps.

Dr. Baker focuses on building a collaborative plan that fits each person's life. She uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the client. She also draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based work when those tools match the goals.

Clients often come for help after relationship breaches, during major life changes, or when managing ongoing anxiety and mood struggles. She also works with people facing issues around body image, sexual expression including BDSM and kink, blended family challenges, and addiction-related concerns. She treats intimacy-related issues and supports people navigating LGBT and HIV/AIDS related matters.

With ten years of experience, Dr. Baker blends practical skills and guided conversation. Sessions typically focus on clear goals, coping skills, and improving communication patterns. She encourages clients to try small changes between sessions and reviews what works.

Her practice offers multiple online formats to fit different schedules. People who prefer a conversational, goal-focused approach may find her method helpful for short-term coaching or longer therapeutic work.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and decisions about relationships by clarifying what matters and practicing small, value-based steps. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections. This work helps people identify repeating patterns in intimacy and communication and learn new ways to connect and repair.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dr. Baker will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. She collaborates with clients to try methods that feel useful and adjusts the plan as progress is made.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are useful for full conversations and nonverbal cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging lets someone share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, parenting, or travel and to keep therapy consistent over time.