Tanya Baker , LMHC

Tanya Baker is a licensed mental health counselor in Indiana with 22 years of experience. She focuses on concerns many women name first - stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem - and she also supports people facing career uncertainty and major life changes. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping people feel steadier and more able to make choices.

In sessions she listens for what matters most and helps clients break big problems into doable steps. Conversations cover feelings, patterns, and everyday decisions that get in the way of feeling well. She encourages building small habits that add up to clearer thinking and better coping.

Tanya draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address things like panic attacks, mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and issues tied to abandonment, guilt, or impulse control. She also works with clients on isolation, midlife concerns, exploring sexuality, and workplace stress. Your goals guide the pace and focus of therapy.

She offers multiple ways to meet so therapy can fit into busy lives: video, phone, live chat, or texting. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Tanya aims to create a calm, practical space to talk through problems and try new ways of handling them.

Beginning therapy often starts with a small step. Tanya helps people name what matters, set reasonable goals, and track progress so change feels manageable over time.

Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care

Two evidence-based techniques Tanya commonly uses are focused on learning to manage strong anxiety and building new skills for daily life. One approach involves identifying unhelpful thinking and testing it against real-life evidence to reduce worry and reactivity; this helps with panic, persistent anxiety, and low mood. Another approach emphasizes step-by-step behavior changes and small experiments to shift avoidance, increase activity, and rebuild confidence after losses or life shifts.

Finding the right combination of methods is a shared process. She works together with each person to match techniques to their goals, preferences, and what feels doable. Sessions will adjust over time as progress is made and priorities change.

Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video lets you work face-to-face from wherever you are, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text conversations make it easy to touch base between sessions. These options help therapy fit into busy schedules and varied needs.