Karen Baker, LMFT

About Karen Baker, LMFT

Uncovering wisdom, through mind, body and spirit

Being invited to witness the most intimate parts of peoples’ lives unfold and evolve is a gift. Through decades of work as both a mental health professional and as a healing arts practitioner I’ve learned that every human holds a gateway to their own unique wisdom. Often this wisdom is found in our greatest suffering and serves as our greatest medicine. I consider the path of psychotherapy to be one of discovering this wisdom.

Prior to becoming a holistic psychotherapist, I worked in community mental health with adolescents in the foster care system and substance abuse facilities, as well as women who had experienced domestic partner violence. I also worked in the healing arts, offering holistic massage therapy, couples massage classes, Rosen method bodywork, personalized yoga instruction and infant massage classes. Over the past two decades, I’ve continued to be humbled by the resilience, perseverance, and creativity that we all have to not only survive, but to thrive.

Committed to open dialogue, always

Exploring and navigating my own intersectionalities has led me to pay close attention to others’ experiences with privilege and marginalization. In our work, I invite open dialogue about issues related to mental health / illness, race / ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and social status as these are so often considered taboo. While I may or may not have similar lived-experiences to you around these aspects of identity, I will hold curiosity for us to both deepen into a greater understanding of them.

Personal exploration and growth

In my own personal journey, I have and continue to explore myself through psychotherapy, somatic practices, meditation, writing, and non-ordinary states of consciousness. I am dedicated to my own continued exploration and growth, personally and professionally, which I view as an unending process.