Hannah is not currently accepting new clients.

Welcome! My name is Hannah Baker and I’m glad you’re here. I am a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist in the state of North Carolina. 

I will approach our work together with curiosity, an ear for themes & patterns, and a deep desire to understand what and who are important to you. We’ll work together to help you experience a closer and more authentic connection to these significant areas of your world. I have particular interest and specialty in supporting folks towards resolving post-traumatic stress & attachment wounding. I will help you move through early childhood experiences including adoption/foster care, parent loss, and non-traditional family systems. I enjoy creating a space for individuals to explore their identity and values, expand around grief and loss of all kinds, develop skills and tools to deepen intimacy and trust, and disentangle family conflict and intergenerational legacies. If you are noticing an over-used, automatic pattern of managing your thoughts and emotions through substances, I hold space for you to explore change. I aim to help folks live with access to more choice and less reactivity. I bring attention towards developing a pause in conflicts that have become automatic and helping you grow inner curiosity as opposed to your inner critic. I appreciate the systems you navigate outside of the office with humility, and how this context impacts the changes you want to make. I may offer skills and practices that align with your lifestyle and spaces you occupy to support your growth. 

If you would value supportive, non-judgmental space after an abortion I will meet you there. After my abortion experience, I found that I only started learning about others who had chosen to end a pregnancy once I started talking about my own. This left me feeling hopeful and also angry at the amount of isolation and shame I felt believing I was alone in it. I hope to meet you at the intersection of the uniqueness in your abortion story with the universality of, what I came to learn, a very human experience. I bring a reproductive justice lens to our work together and an open-heart to slow down with you and explore the unique circumstances, and, perhaps, complex emotional landscape of the choice you made or wish you had made. In a post-Roe v. Wade society, I aim to create a therapeutic, pro-choice space that welcomes and partners with you in all the ways you wish to demonstrate your autonomy in a sociopolitical environment that systemically removes access and gives the message that your body does not belong to you. 

My approach to therapy is integrative and I lean heavily on somatic-based modalities, attachment theory, and experiential interventions. I am trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and Somatic Experiencing, which are somatic-based interventions that support in resolving trauma and residual impacts of painful experiences. Together, we will free up space previously held tightly by perfectionism, anxiety, depression, stress, people-pleasing, avoidance, and re-enactment of your family system to make room for more intentional and caring relationships with yourself and others, however you define it.

I have worked in the mental health field since 2013, supporting individuals and families in several treatment settings including psychiatric residential treatment, a middle-school counseling center, intensive in-home services, and a wilderness adventure program. Most recently I worked with young adults in a dual-diagnosis residential program in a highly collaborative treatment-team environment. I invite collaboration with those already a part of your care team that you feel will enhance our work together. I welcome our work to be goal-directed, or more long-term, and for our therapeutic relationship to be a touchstone to support the risks you need to have the life and relationships you desire. I will reflect your progress, lovingly challenge your old patterns, and celebrate with you on how far you’ve come.

Hannah is not currently accepting new clients.

hannah@outofthewoodstherapy.com

Hannah can accept most Aetna, Optum/United, Medcost or BCBS insurance plans (and is a CPP provider for the NC BCBS state plan).

The private pay fee is $140 for 50-55 minute individual therapy sessions or $165 for relational therapy.

If you would like to know more about using insurance or out-of-network benefits, please click here.