Jo Baker

Jo Baker is a Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW) based in Mississippi who focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anger, anxiety, or life changes. She brings a calm, warm presence and aims to build trust quickly so people can start talking about what matters. Jo works with adults, adolescents, and children according to the original biography and helps with everyday struggles and more complex mood or behavior concerns.

With 12 years of experience in clinical practice, Jo uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She combines practical skills from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with acceptance and mindfulness-based work. Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas guide conversations about relationships and difficult feelings.

Jo emphasizes short-term skills and longer-term change. Sessions often include learning new coping tools, practicing different ways to respond to strong emotions, and checking what works in daily life. She pays attention to patterns that come from family of origin, attachment, adoption or foster care experiences when those issues are relevant.

Her background includes work with trauma, ADHD, mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive challenges, and grief. The biography also notes experience with parenting concerns, blended family issues, and disruptive mood symptoms in young people.

Jo asks clients to be part of planning their care. She partners with people to set goals and tries approaches that fit each person’s situation and values.

How Jo’s approaches translate to online work

Many of Jo’s methods focus on learning new ways to react to strong feelings, and they adapt well to remote conversations. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values, which is helpful for anger, anxiety, and big life decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and it often includes short exercises or between-session practice to test what works.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Jo collaborates with each person to choose which methods to try first, and she adjusts plans based on how someone responds and what fits their goals and day-to-day life.

The therapist biography did not specify session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when that helps maintain progress. They also let people practice skills in their normal routines and bring examples from home or work into sessions for real-time problem solving.