SAFEHAVEN PSYCHOTHERAPY
About Aida
Aida Baker Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, #51176
Whether working with individuals, couples and/or parents, Aida is quite passionate about facilitating the innate healing potential that exists within all people. Along with a depth approach to the psyche, she is particularly interested in implementing the latest discoveries in neuroscience with regard to attachment in adult love relationships, trauma resolution, and parenting.
Mind-Body Therapy
Aida has completed several extensive trainings promoting psychological processes which include the body. It has been said that the mind can create many fabrications, but the body never lies. The inclusion of the body in psychotherapy has deepened and expanded the possibility of more complete assimilation of past trauma and developmental wounding which contribute to psychological disturbances such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and relational conflicts.
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Aida is a Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist (EFT), a model developed by Dr. Sue Johnson. She incorporates EFT into her work with couples and families — helping individuals understand how early bonding with caregivers shapes the quality of their adult love relationships, and how that can change and heal.
Attachment & Neuroscience
Neuroscience is now validating what attachment theorists have known for many years: that human beings do not do well in isolation, that being emotionally close to loved ones tranquilizes the nervous system, and that attachment is a process necessary throughout the lifespan — not just in early childhood.
Parenting From the Inside Out
Aida teaches and presents based on Parenting from the Inside Out by Dan Siegel and Mary Hartzell, and has completed a training with the authors. This approach helps parents understand how their own childhood experiences shape their relationships with their children. Research shows that the more self-awareness parents have, the more likely their children will securely bond — and securely attached children thrive in school, regulate emotions more easily, get along better with peers, and develop healthier relationships as adults.
Listen to Aida's radio interview on this topic on the Classes & Resources page.
The Healing Power of Relationship
Working experientially and with tools such as mindfulness and other mind/body interventions, Aida utilizes the healing power of relationship to help transform past wounds and limiting life patterns into more life-affirming, expansive, and creative ways of living.