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Improve Health & Well-Being, Sally Baker, Senior Therapist
Sally Baker, Senior Therapist, Writer, Emotional Safety Consultant, is often featured in newspapers, magazines, TV and radio (click here for a TV Showreel for the Press):
Sally Baker – Senior Therapist, Writer, Emotional Safety Consultant
Helping high-functioning people and leaders resolve emotional patterns they cannot out-think.
What can Sally Baker offer you?
Who Sally helps
I support people who appear to be capable on the outside but feel overwhelmed inside. Are you one of these? High-functioning adults. Leaders under pressure. Creatives. People navigating anxiety or burnout. Individuals recovering from trauma or medical events. People stuck in compulsive behaviours or emotional cycles they don’t understand.
Buy Sally's books
Writing books has allowed me to distil all the learning I have experienced working for over twenty years in private practice. I teach you the therapy techniques I have found to be the most effective in my work as self-help tools for whatever life throws at you. Click the button below to find out more about the books I've written, and how they could help you.
Sally in the media
Daily Mail The Instagram posts from Brooklyn Beckham have gone viral. I was asked to comment on the words he used in the Daily Mail to destroy family relationships.
February 2026
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15480319/Therapists-expert-verdict-Brooklyn-Beckhams-bombshell-Instagram-post-disowning-family-assault-no-kindness-parents-siblings.html
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What are your real questions?
Why am I stuck?
Why do I repeat patterns?
Why can’t I switch off?
Why did a health crisis shake me more emotionally than physically?
Why do I behave as if danger is still present when my life is objectively safe?What are the real answers?
Your nervous system is running predictions created years ago.
You cannot out-think a pattern your body believes is protecting you.
I work at the level where emotional patterns are stored and updated — using memory reconsolidation, somatic regulation and trauma-informed methods.
This changes things that insight alone cannot touch.How can I work with Sally Baker?
Deep Work Programme (1:1)
Neuroscience-led therapy for anxiety, burnout, compulsions, trauma and long-standing emotional patterns – find out more here.
Leadership & Corporate Resilience
Workshops and consulting for teams seeking psychological safety, emotional intelligence, and performance without burnout – find out more here.
Why work with Sally Baker?
• 20+ years as a senior therapist
• Expertise in trauma recovery and emotional release work
• Clear, compassionate guidance
• Practical tools grounded in lived experience and neuroscience
• A calm, steady approach to emotional change
"This is not coping-skills therapy – this is a change at the root."
If something in you knows it’s time to stop coping and start thriving, book a discovery call.
Who is Sally Baker?
I’m an award-winning, senior, licensed and accredited therapist based in London, England with some twenty years of experience of seeing clients for a wide range of complex and challenging issues.
I specialise in working with people who feel broken or stuck. People who feel as if there is some impenetrable barrier they just can’t break through.
As a therapist, I specialise in going straight to the root of the problem by helping you clear the unconscious negative thoughts, limiting -beliefs and damaging behaviours that make you feel broken and keep you stuck.
If you’ve reached the point where enough is enough, and you’re finally ready to do what it takes to get what you want, call me on 07986 812851 or request a connection on Skype to Sallyeft. I also offer an obligation free discovery call via the link in the navigation bar.
What questions do people ask?
Why do I feel anxious even when life is “fine”?
Because your nervous system doesn’t respond to circumstances — it responds to old emotional predictions that haven’t yet been updated.
Why do I keep repeating patterns I don’t want?
Patterns are protective, not logical. They’re learned in moments when your body feels unsafe.
Why did a medical event affect me emotionally?
Surgery, illness or injury can shock the nervous system. You can recover physically but still feel unsafe inside.
How do compulsions take over?
They’re not about logic — compulsions are held in your reptilian brain, where the changes need to be made so they can be resolved and released.
How does real change happen?
Through emotional release and nervous-system repair, not through managing symptoms or trying harder.
How do I begin?
With a calm, grounded, obligation free conversation — a discovery call.
Questions asked most frequently...
What kind of clients do you work with?
People experiencing anxiety, compulsions, emotional overwhelm, burnout, trauma, medical shock or long-standing emotional patterns.
What is your therapeutic approach?
Deep emotional release work using trauma-informed methods, memory reconsolidation and nervous-system calming — not coping skills or symptom management.
Is this online or in person?
Online worldwide and in London by arrangement.
How quickly do people feel changes?
Most clients experience meaningful emotional shifts within the first few sessions because we work at the level where patterns are stored in the reptilian brain with the latest neuroscience-informed therapy approaches.
Do you work with corporate teams?
Yes — I run leadership and emotional-resilience workshops for organisations that want emotionally safe, productive and effective teams.
How do I start?
Book a 20-minute discovery call.
Who can recommend Sally Baker?
"The sessions I had with Sally were excellent as I was able to work through several key challenges that were really keeping me stuck. Sally's style is engaging, thought-provoking, challenging and very informative. I originally saw Sally to help me work through relationship issues, only to discover that I was severely lacking in confidence, had low internal value and was unable to set clear boundaries. All of which were having a detrimental impact on how I was living my life. Working with Sally and using PSTEC I have been able to implement significant change, which has made me more confident and focused. I have introduced a number of changes to enable me to participate in the important things in life... and this has had a massive impact on how I feel about myself and conduct my relationships both personally and professionally. Thank you Sally." DD
"Changes were very subtle at first, and although I was aware of my good spirits, it was only when everyone at work started to comment on how much lighter I seemed – lighter in terms of weight but also in spirit – that I fully become aware of the effects of the therapy. As well as become smaller in size, I now feel much happier in myself. Finding out where my anxieties came from was an important revelation, and formed the basis for dealing with them. Sally is incredibly resourceful and has a myriad of techniques available for various issues that require on-the-spot thinking. Sally is also a very warm and empathetic person, and I feel incredibly comfortable in her presence and in the working environment. I would definitely recommend her to anyone." AS
"Having had the most horrendous year, losing a baby, then a boyfriend, then a nasty fall which involved a week in hospital and plastic surgery, I was feeling very low. I had actually made contact with Sally as I wanted to try and lose weight through hypnotherapy, and as the layers of the onion peeled away during therapy, it was clear to see I was an emotional wreck. Sally's amazing ability to tune in to how I ticked and help in processing it all really moved me on through a very difficult time in my life. We spent most the sessions getting me over my break-up, and the weight loss was parked until I was ready. I had six sessions and I can honestly say that I am in a much better place than I was when I first sat down with Sally, she has definitely helped me to get here. It's good to know that should I hit rock bottom again, Sally is on hand." HM
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Improve Health & Well-Being, Sally Baker, Senior Therapist
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Relationships, Therapy Insights
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Sally Baker, Senior Therapist, as seen on BBC Radio London, The Guardian, Daily Mail, and GQ UK Magazine:
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Sally Baker — Senior Therapist, Writer, Emotional Safety Consultant and Media Commentator – Specialist in trauma recovery, emotional release work, compulsive behaviours, burnout, high-functioning anxiety and the emotional impact of medical events. As seen on BBC Radio London, The Guardian, Daily Mail, and GQ UK Magazine.
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