Counseling in Spokane

Anxiety & Addiction counseling for driven professionals.

You’re simultaneously pulled in 10 different directions. Your mind won’t stop racing and you feel out of control. Counseling in Spokane can help.

At times, it's nearly impossible to concentrate at work and by the time you get home, you are so exhausted that it's difficult to even get dinner on the table or help the kids with homework. You've been pulling back at work, distancing from friends, and feel 'checked-out' around family.

It feels like you are falling apart. One minute your brain feels like 20 open browser tabs and the next you shut down.Vacillating between overstimulation and overwhelm. It’s exhausting.

You can logically look at your life and see that you’ve always done everything that needed to be done. You can see 15 steps ahead and always do the things that need to be done. You’re dependable, the one with all the answers. The rock.

But now, you don’t even know who you are.

All of the years spent holding everything together for everyone else hasn’t gotten you to where you should be. It feels like something inside you broke months or even years ago, and you just can’t put it back together.

It’s the worst on Sunday nights when your brain starts to spin with nonstop thoughts about Monday… What’s going to come crashing down? What am I going to screw up? Feeling paralyzed by the belief that you’re making all the wrong moves.

Maybe this morning it was just too much and you couldn’t force yourself to get out of bed so you called into work. You remember a time when you felt like you could handle anything, but that feels far away now… You’ve lost your confidence.

People think you're a perfectionist, but you're not. You're just trying to achieve a high enough level of performance.

People see you as “put together” and even say that they “envy” your life and how you move through the world. What they don’t realize is that you stopped at the store every night last week on the way home from work to grab a couple bottles of wine. They don’t hear that inner critic condescendingly asking, “When did you turn into someone who drinks every night and skips your morning workout?”

You’ve been in survival mode for so long that your body doesn’t know anything different. It is incomprehensible how you have worked so hard to check all of the boxes and yet you find yourself here, trying to push forward in a life that feels stale and unfulfilling.

You probably could do what you’ve always done - put your head down and keep pushing forward, but you don’t have to. It doesn’t have to be this hard and you don’t have to do it alone, I can help.

Hello, I’m Rachel Baker. I’ve been a counselor in Spokane for over 20 years specializing in helping overworked, overwhelmed and anxious professionals create peace+purpose. I can help you move out of survival and into a life you want to live.

Rachel Baker, a Spokane therapist who specializes in anxiety counseling and addiction treatment, sitting in chair with feet up.

I have been where you are and it’s taken time to realize how much my drive for achievement and perfection was getting in the way of me being present and available in my life.

I was so focused on checking off the next box that I missed actually living in the life I’d created.

In the therapy room, my objective is to hold a mirror for you, allowing you to see yourself in ways that you haven’t before. I am committed to creating a space where learning, growth, and unbiased understanding are forefront.

It is an honor to work with people willing to build trust and get vulnerable - that’s where real healing begins - looking inward and exploring your thoughts and feelings. I offer a space for you to listen to your inner voice and start trusting yourself again.

Speaking your truth into the eyes of someone you trust is universally healing... counseling in Spokane can help.

Sessions with me work best when we meet weekly, so we can really dive in and you can see measurable progress. This is a time for you to just be you. A space for you to catch your breath.While being honest and pushing you at times, I’ll hold space for compassion when your inner critic gets too loud.

If you’re ready to dig in and discover or rediscover parts of you that have been overshadowed by all of the other stuff, fill out this form to schedule your free 15-minutes telephone consultation. Together we will explore how anxiety, addiction or trauma may be getting in the way of your happy+healthy.

COUNSELING IN SPOKANE, WA

  • Two people sitting at a table across from each other talking about anxiety counseling.

    ANXIETY

    It’s time to take a breath and a break. Anxiety counseling can help.

  • An alcoholic drink splashing as it is slammed onto a table, to symbolize the need for addiction treatment.

    ADDICTION

    Your nonjudgmental addiction treatment alternative. Abstinence not required.

  • Online & In-Person

    Counseling in Spokane and on-line therapy throughout WA and ID.

Rachel Baker is a counselor in Spokane, with over 20 years experience helping overworked and overwhelmed professionals reduce anxiety and explore their use of substances.

Her goal is to connect individual client strengths and experiences with proven therapeutic techniques that increase skill and insight in order for people to create a life filled with peace+purpose.

If you are looking for individual therapy to address anxiety, addiction or trauma, and are located in Washington or Idaho, complete this form to schedule a free 15-minute consultation.

 



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