Services
Massage Therapy
Life Coaching
Diversity Training
Coming in 2012
Licensed Professional CounselingMy Writing
-
Recent Posts
- The Knots Prayer
- 50 Tips for Counselors: A Compilation of Irvin Yalom’s Advice
- Bipolar Disorder in Adolescence: Diagnosis and Modern Treatment
- Coming Out of the Darkness
- An Ode to Reece Manley (1/14/69 – 2/3/11)
- Cutting Away at Emotional Pain Handout (Nuestras Voces Conference 2010)
- Maybe I Just Will
Category Archives: BLOG Entries
50 Tips for Counselors: A Compilation of Irvin Yalom’s Advice
Fifty Tips for Counselors: A Compilation of Irvin Yalom’s Advice Renee Baker, Ph.D. The following is a list of tips and tidbits I consolidated from Irvin Yalom’s book The Gift of Therapy – An Open Letter to a New Generation … Continue reading
Posted in BLOG Entries, Counselors and Healers
Leave a comment
An Ode to Reece Manley (1/14/69 – 2/3/11)
I wrote this for my Professional Counseling Class in May of 2010. He shared many intimate details of his life with me. He passed away this month from the many complications he faced. He was often in great pain, so … Continue reading
Posted in BLOG Entries, Gay
Leave a comment
Maybe I Just Will
When I was studying to be an electrical engineer, our academic requirements laid out a path for us to take of study outside of core engineering. They wanted us to have breadth as individuals, not just core depth. But how … Continue reading
Posted in BLOG Entries
Leave a comment
Thixotropic Man – Or, Our Ground Substance Hero? Say what?
Look, up in the sky, no I mean laying there firmly in bed, it’s Thixotropic Man. Can we help him? Yes, quick, give him a massage before it’s too late. It’s working, he’s starting to move, he’s warming up. There, … Continue reading
Posted in BLOG Entries, Massage Therapy
Leave a comment
Self Injury and Youth – A Literature Review
A Literature Review of Youth that Self Injure by Renee Baker, August 2010 What Do We Know About Self Mutilation? Historically, self-mutilation was considered a form of suicidal behavior until suggested otherwise by Karl Menninger in his 1938 book, Man … Continue reading
Posted in BLOG Entries, LGBT Youth, Self-Injury
2 Comments
Being There
About twenty years ago, when I was doing some early research at UT Dallas, my advisor gave me some sage advice. Not about school, but about relationships. He shared with me that we get so busy sometimes, wrapped up in … Continue reading
Posted in BLOG Entries
1 Comment
Margaret Mercer – A Herstorical Woman of Character
Every now and then I really enjoy finding age old writings from the past. I was in the process of writing an article about the Dallas Women’s Foundation and was researching philanthropy, when I came across Margaret Mercer, born in … Continue reading
Posted in BLOG Entries
Leave a comment
Dallas Stonewall March 2010
I had a distinct honor of saying a few words at the Pride rally downtown Dallas outside the City Courthouse. I spoke on two issues of importance, but also on something beautiful that happened. It is not often that we … Continue reading
Posted in BLOG Entries, Transgender
Leave a comment