Jo Baker
Compassionate evidence-informed care
LCSW Mississippi
- Experience
- 12 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Parenting
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Jo
Jo Baker is a Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW) in Mississippi who centers her practice on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting challenges, mood concerns, and relationship difficulties.
Background and approach
With 12 years of clinical experience, she draws on a broad range of interventions to support clients facing issues such as ADHD, grief, bipolar disorder, OCD, and coping with life changes. Her background includes work across child, adolescent, adult, and family presentations, and she integrates multiple methods to match each person's needs.
Her style is described as warm and nonjudgmental, emphasizing a collaborative therapeutic relationship as the foundation for change. Jo blends techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), and client-centered approaches to create tailored plans.
She pays attention to attachment, family-of-origin patterns, adoption and foster care dynamics, and a range of mood and behavioral concerns. Clients can expect a practitioner who adapts methods to individual goals and preferences while offering practical skills and emotional support.
Jo works via online formats and structured sessions that use evidence-informed strategies to address both immediate symptoms and longer-term patterns.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Jo uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and skills practice, which can reduce symptoms like anxiety, phobias, and obsessive behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in her work emphasizes values-guided action and learning to relate differently to difficult emotions, a helpful option for people coping with chronic stress, mood patterns, or life transitions. She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy principles that focus on empathetic listening and building a trusting therapeutic relationship to support growth and self-understanding.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Jo reviews a client's concerns, goals, and preferences and adapts methods over time so that therapy fits the person's needs rather than the other way around. This flexible, team-oriented process helps tailor interventions and practice between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for scheduling and different interaction styles. These options allow clients to work around travel, family, and work commitments while engaging in structured therapeutic work, skills practice, and check-ins with a licensed professional.
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Experience
12+ years
Licensed
Mississippi
Languages
English