Araya Baker, M.Phil.Ed., Ed.M., is a therapist who supports individuals and couples navigating complex relationships to family systems, intersectional identity development, self-actualization and self-esteem, trauma and grief, and trust and communication. Some of Araya’s specialties include recovery from family estrangement/stressful parent-adult child relationships, institutional betrayal (e.g. conversation therapy, religious abuse/trauma, and workplace bullying), and narcissistic abuse. Others areas of proficiency are boyhood and masculine socialization, gender dysphoria and transition, sexual and reproductive health, and suicidology. Araya holds an Ed.M. in Human Development from Harvard, an M.Phil.Ed. in Professional Counseling from UPenn, and a B.A. in English with a minor in Africana Studies from Tufts.
At best, self-harm and suicide among Black children are misunderstood. At worst, they’re willfully ignored. Read more
Self-harm is not a culturally specific phenomenon, but it’s often misunderstood and overlooked in Black children by a society that forces them to grow up... Read more
