About Jo
Jo Baker is a Licensed Certified Social Worker who helps people who are stressed, anxious, or coping with big life changes. She sees people struggling with mood shifts, grief, trauma, parenting pressures, ADHD challenges, and relationship or identity concerns. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at making therapy feel doable and practical.
Jo draws on a range of methods to match each person's needs. She uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to help change unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance-based and emotion-focused ideas to help people make room for hard feelings and strengthen important relationships. Sessions usually focus on small, clear steps you can try between meetings. Jo helps people learn skills for managing strong emotions, handling anger, and reducing symptoms of anxiety or obsessive thoughts.
She also supports parents who feel overwhelmed and people navigating adoption, blended family matters, or attachment concerns. With 12 years of experience in Mississippi, Jo brings practical experience with trauma, bipolar and mood disorders, phobias, seasonal mood shifts, and self-harm concerns. Her background includes work with issues linked to family of origin, impulsivity, and disruptive mood patterns.
People who choose Jo can expect a collaborative approach where goals are checked and adjusted. She explains options clearly, teaches skills to use between sessions, and focuses on what helps most in everyday life.
How Jo's approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then taking small actions that match your values. ACT can help with anxiety, low mood, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches clear skills for shifting unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, OCD tendencies, and mood problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people name and respond to strong emotions and can be useful when relationship patterns or attachment concerns cause distress.Choosing the right approach is a joint process. Jo will talk with each person about goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. The therapist and client decide together which methods fit best for the situation and personality.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is lower or a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or messaging can fit into a busy day or provide brief ongoing support. These options make it easier to keep appointments and use skills in real time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English