Stephanie Sligo-Baker

Stephanie Sligo-Baker is a licensed clinical social worker with decades of experience in Minnesota. She brings 37 years of practice to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and grief. She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Stephanie designs therapy around what each person needs and values. Her background includes long-term work with people who have experienced trauma, including first responders and healthcare workers. She uses Trauma-Focused Therapy alongside Attachment-Based, Client-Centered, Cognitive Behavioral, and Dialectical Behavior approaches. In sessions she helps people name what feels overwhelming and build practical skills for coping. Stephanie often works on relationship and communication problems, as well as issues like addiction, self-esteem, sleep and eating concerns, and career stress. She also addresses attachment wounds, abandonment, caregiving strain, chronic health challenges, and identity matters including LGBT concerns. Her work includes support for bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Therapy with her is conversational and goal-oriented. She will listen first, then suggest small, doable steps to try between sessions. Grounding exercises, thought work, and skill practice are common parts of the plan when they fit the person’s goals. Taking the first step can feel hard, and Stephanie encourages people who are ready to reach out. She asks clients to complete a brief matching questionnaire to begin and then together they plan a path forward.

How trauma-informed and attachment work translate online

Stephanie uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to help people process distressing events and reduce overwhelming reactions. This approach focuses on safe, paced work to make painful memories easier to manage, and it can be useful for people coping with abuse or workplace trauma. She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, which looks at patterns in relationships and how early bonds affect current trust and closeness. This approach helps people change how they relate to others and to themselves. Client-Centered Therapy shapes sessions around the person's goals, providing a steady, nonjudgmental space to talk through concerns. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stephanie will talk with each person about goals, history, and preferences and suggest methods to try. Decisions about techniques are collaborative and can be adjusted as therapy progresses. If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people access consistent help when schedules or locations change. Licensed professionals adapt the same therapeutic tools used in person to meet emotional and practical needs over distance.