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Dear Friend,
Thank you for visiting my website! I am glad that you are here. As you know already, I am a licensed professional counselor in Texas. A counselor is someone who helps you with any of a number of mental health issues including mood difficulties such as anxiety, depression, bipolar and trauma, as well as stubborn personality fixations such as obsession, borderline, narcissism and more. In addition to being a general practitioner, I specialize in sexuality matters, LGBT+ relationships and gender identity issues. It is important to find someone that you can relate to and connect with, as the relationship is the most important building block in counseling for mental health.
I also thank you for considering me! You will find my style of counseling to be very interpersonal and educational. I am a writer and a bookworm and feel strongly that imparting information is akin to helping people adjust their belief systems. We often need paradigm shifts to change our lives. When we change our beliefs, we can change our behaviors and our ways of thinking. And our lives can improve in many ways, such as with our emotions and our relationships. Our beliefs make up much of who we are. Above all, I hope to help clients manage life more gracefully and peacefully, even in a world that is so difficult to live in.
I also encourage individuals to develop not just their minds, but to focus on all aspects of life. It is important to be mindful, but also to develop in all contexts of our lives. A healthy life can include many factors such as our academics, our career, our social world, our physical health and so on. To feel well, it helps to be holistic. To be holistic is to have inside integrity and outside integration – there is a lot to unpack here.
As to my office, I share space with Feleshia Porter, LPC. Our office space is named Life Gets Better Together Counseling (LGBT Counseling for short). Both of us are general practitioners and hence generally work with anyone that comes knocking on our door for assistance.
In addition to working with the LGBT community, I also support the alternative communities such as kink, poly, furry and so on. I do my best to be inclusive from a place of humility. Transgender clients are my largest population – I proudly identify as trans myself. As there is a large intersection of autism, ADHD and trans, I natually support these communities – all of which are part of my family incidentally. Finally, I contract with Texas Workforce to provide no cost counseling to those with disabilities. I’m happy to coordinate psyche evals and career counseling.
My career experience in life is fairly diverse. I have a social work background at NT Youth Connection working with youth and families, especially those in crisis – helping kids with truancy, family conflict and at-risk behaviors. I have a history supporting LGBT youth as well, having been a volunteer and board member at Youth First Texas. I previously owned Massage and Motion Therapeutics having my own private practice doing body work for several years. (I am no longer an LMT.) And prior to my mental health career, I was an engineering teacher at UT Dallas and an engineer in industry, working in telecommunications, wireless technologies, radar systems and reconnaissance. I believe in transparency, so you can find out lots more on my About pages.
That’s it for now. Do poke around. There is much here to explore. I am a resource junky and I hope that empowers you a bit. And do feel free to holler if I can be of assistance. If you would like an appointment, please give me a call, a text or send an e-mail to me. My phone number is 214-607-5620 and my email is renee@renee-baker.com. 🙂
All my best to you,
Renee Baker (she/her/hers)
P.S. You may also wish to follow me or get to know me on my professional business Facebook page. Please only connect on Facebook with my professional page and not my personal page as I am not able to have dual relationships.
