- Client-centered guide
- Focus on relationships
- Practical skills
About Amanda
Dr. Amanda Baker helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and questions about intimacy and sex. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with ten years of clinical experience based in New York. Her manner is straightforward and client-centered, aimed at finding practical steps that feel doable in everyday life.
She commonly works with relationship problems such as infidelity, communication breakdowns, and blended family tensions. She also supports people coping with trauma, depression, addictions, ADHD, and concerns around body image or sexual expression including kink and BDSM. Codependency is among the issues she addresses in sessions.
In session she takes a guiding, collaborative stance. Clients are asked about their goals and preferences, and she adapts the work to match those aims. Techniques may come from cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment strategies, attachment-focused work, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when helpful.
Appointments focus on clear, practical steps - learning new communication habits, building boundaries, and experimenting with small behavior changes between sessions. She values client input and adjusts pace and methods based on progress and comfort.
Her background includes a decade of practice with individuals, couples, and families dealing with trauma, relationship repair, and sexual concerns. People who want a direct, collaborative therapist who balances emotional exploration with skills-building often find her approach useful.
How her approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed actions toward them. It can help with anxiety, depression, and getting unstuck when old patterns like people-pleasing or codependency show up. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationship patterns and helps people try new ways of relating. This can be useful for couples work, intimacy issues, and healing from betrayal. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental stance where the therapist reflects and supports the client's self-direction; it helps people feel heard while they make sense of tough choices.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each client to choose or combine methods based on what feels most helpful. Goals, personal style, and the problem at hand guide those decisions rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Confirm the current session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it possible to continue regular work on communication skills, boundary setting, and behavior experiments between sessions while balancing home and work life.
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Experience
10+ years
Credentials
New York
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, addictions, depression, and codependency among other topics.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is client-centered and collaborative, blending emotional exploration with practical skills and clear steps to try between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has ten years of clinical experience working with individuals, couples, and families on trauma, relationship repair, and sexual concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a New York Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in New York.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with international clients?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to work with her?
Choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.