David Baker
Compassionate, practical online counselling
About David
David Baker is a counsellor with twelve years of experience based in the United Kingdom. He is a member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP). He offers online and telephone sessions and aims to make therapy practical and easy to access for people under stress or facing big life changes.
He trained in person-centred work at Warwick University and has continued learning in related approaches. Over the years he has worked in independent practice, the voluntary sector, a major UK mental health charity and a bereavement counselling service.
Background and approach
This range of experience informs a flexible way of working. Sessions tend to focus on immediate problems and what people want to change. He uses client-centred principles to build trust and then draws on other approaches to match the individual’s needs.
Conversations are straightforward and aimed at helping people manage feelings such as anxiety, grief or low mood. David responds to concerns about relationships, addiction, trauma, self-esteem and coping with loss. He also supports people dealing with eating and sleeping difficulties, career pressures, compassion fatigue and identity questions including LGBT issues.
He can address attachment and intimacy-related worries as well. Practical matters such as scheduling and the format of sessions are handled plainly. Therapy runs as a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and pick a time that suits them.
What David works with
How David works
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Sessions & fees
How these therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current expectations. Online sessions can be used to notice those patterns and try different ways of relating in everyday life.Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening without judgement and helping the person find their own solutions. In remote sessions the counsellor offers empathic reflection that helps people name feelings and decide what to try next.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. Over video or phone this can include homework, thought records and short skills practice between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals and preferences and suggest what might suit best. That decision is made together and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility that fits busy lives. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is an issue, and live chat or text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing written support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel or caregiving commitments and keep regular contact over distance.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
