steve baker, MA, LPC, MAC

Steve Baker holds a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling and has over 35 years experience in mental health, behavioral sciences, and clinical supervision.  He is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri, Virginia and Oregon, and an Internationally Certified Master Addiction Counselor (MAC) by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (formerly known as the National Association for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors).  Steve has also served as an adjunct psychology professor and consultant for a graduate counseling program.   He is also a Clinical Licensure Supervisor & Mentor at Change, Inc., meaning he helps some of our clinicians grow and develop through clinical mentorship and direct supervision.

Steve retired from the United States Air Force in 2000, and most recently was the head of the Behavioral Health Unit at Mosaic Medical, a holistic outpatient clinic in Bend, OR.  Steve has specialized training in addictions, trauma, anxiety, depression and co-occurring disorders, religious/spiritual injury, and a wealth of mental health experience with individuals and families, including specialized expertise working with parent-adult child relationships.  He is also trained in EMDR, including the use of tapping.

Steve is available for online adult and adolescent individual counseling.

From Steve:

“Most of us are trying to avoid our pain, in spite of the fact that it is an inevitable and crucial part of the human experience. In fact, we are never so fully human as when we surrender to the reality of our wounds. Only when we stay with our pain can we hope to learn what it has to teach us in the hopes of ultimately transforming it into something meaningful and life-giving that may just propel us into the life we’ve always wanted.  But it is hard learning how to integrate our wounds into who we are.  I will help you.”