Junia Baker

Junia Baker

I work from the mindset that trust is built through honesty, authenticity, and acceptance and that, in any given moment, we are all doing the best we can and we have the capacity to increase our connection.

I offer trauma-informed integrative individual therapy with a strength-based focus and anti-oppressive lens towards understanding and celebrating our adaptiveness.

My goal is to work with you towards exploring areas where you'd like to see new life instead of feeling stuck and discouraged.

I believe connection is something to be practiced, not perfected, and focus on a neurodiverse and multicultural perspective related to how we connect and learn. Often, when we don’t feel safe, we find ways to adapt that may disrupt our connection, in order to reorient to safety. These adaptations are brilliant, and I love to learn how my clients have adapted, honor the energy that took, and support returning to your unique qualities that give you agency. We also use resourcing to safety and the kindling towards connecting to others in the ways that fit our values and authenticity.

I use compassion, humor, and movement to create ripples that let hope slip in and grow so you are able to see the strength you possess towards long term embodiment.

I hope to help you move past tolerating life and find new ways of being that already live inside of you.

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Nia Baker is an integrative trauma-informed therapist, supervisor, trainer, and consultant who uses a strength-based, anti-oppressive lens to facilitate inner knowing and learning new skills. She completed a Master in Professional Counseling with a Certificate in Trauma Counseling and holds a License in Professional Counseling (LPC) in the state of Georgia where she also serves as a Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor (CPCS). Nia also completed a Master in Theological Studies (MTS) with a focus on religion and spirituality rituals as both neurobiological stress and safety. Nia believes in the dignity of each unique experience and the remarkable adaptiveness of those who have lived through experiences of marginalization and trauma.

Nia has completed The Linehan Institute Dialectical Behavior Therapy Foundational Training, Radically Open (RO)-DBT training through Tom Lynch, creator, and DBT for Substance Abuse Disorder (DBT-SUD).  She also uses techniques from her training with EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs (HAP). Nia is also trained in Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). Nia began Somatic Experiencing training in February of 2022, completing it in 2025, with additional training with Sarah Schlote MA RP CCC SEP on SE with animal participation and neurodiversity, and Ariel Giaretto LMFT SEP CSSE through the Somatic Sexuality Healing Practitioner (SSHP) training program.

Nia opened Active Resilience Counseling & Coaching LLC (ARC) in the fall of 2018 to provide DBT, RO DBT, and trauma Counseling in the south side of Atlanta to serve our growing diverse community. ARC provides behavioral, somatic, and cognitive therapies that offer real, lasting change as well as trauma processing for enduring relief.

Nia desires to support direct-service organizations towards Trauma Informed Care of clinicians, staff, and clients. She has implemented trauma informed DBT within several nonprofit organizations serving women survivors of sexual exploitation and trafficking in the United States and Romania. She has also traveled with the Green Cross International both in the US and internationally including working with first responders and refugees in the camp in Lesvos, Greece.

Specialties

• Addiction
• ADHD
• Adolescents
• Adults
• Adults abused as children
• Anxiety Disorders
• Behavioral Issues
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Chronic Illness
• Complex PTSD
• Depression
• Developmental Trauma
• Early Childhood Attachment Disturbances
• Eating Disorders
• First Responders
• Gender Dysphoria
• Grief and Loss
• LGBTQIA+
• Motor Vehicle Collisions
• OCD/Compulsive Tendencies
• Refugees
• Relational/Relationship Issues
• Self-Esteem
• Spirituality
• Anti-Oppression Trauma Resolution
• Systemic Trauma
• Domestic Violence
• Mass Disaster
• Sexual Abuse
• Womens’ Issues