Evan Baker

Evan Baker is a licensed Master Social Worker in the state of New York. He focuses on bereavement, anxiety, trauma, depression, career issues and family issues. His practice includes age groups from early childhood beginning at age 9. He currently works with early adolescents aged 12-14. In addition, He works with a wide range of professionals including NYPD officers, NYC Correction officers, schoolteachers, high earning business executives. He's worked with adults and adolescents in Rikers Island jail as well as drug abuse treatment for both adult and adolescents, parole and probation population.

He employs a client centered approach while incorporating a strength-based system. He has extensive experience with DBT working with adults and adolescents in Rikers Island. In addition, he uses solution focused therapy while employing an advocacy system that helps people overcome low self-confidence and depression. In applying these different therapy dynamics, he helps to compartmentalize stressors and define goals to help overcome chronic or acute crisis. CBT is a method he uses to enable people to condition their thinking to overcome false beliefs that lead to emotional and mental distress.

Mr. Baker's experience began working in Rikers Island Jail, where he worked for 10 years, before working within the Port Jervis community to help aid people in Orange County New York overcome homelessness. He then began working in Newburgh New York in drug counseling. During covid, he began working remotely assessing elderly and others who needed nursing home care and psychiatric hospitalization.

Since 2021, he began his own private practice which has given him the opportunity to reach more people through virtual telehealth treatment. Through this method, he can reach more people with more frequency and with more ease.