Emilé Baker, LICSW, has two decades of experience working across a range of practice areas, including anxiety and depressive disorders, inpatient and outpatient psychiatric social work, and women’s maternal and reproductive health. She has extensive experience supporting vulnerable populations, including people living with HIV/AIDS and unhoused individuals. Ms. Baker has also developed a unique niche in providing psychotherapy and group support for families facing health anxiety and trauma related to life-threatening food allergies and anaphylaxis. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, New England Chapter.
Ms. Baker has been affiliated with Simmons University since the fall of 2022. She previously served as an adjunct instructor, teaching Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis as well as Cognitive Behavioral Approaches and Techniques. During this time, she also worked as a Practicum Liaison, advising and supporting social work graduate students in their internships and managing the relationships between practicum supervisors and the university.
Beyond her work at Simmons, Ms. Baker maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where she provides cognitive-behavioral and relationally focused therapy to clients managing anxiety and depressive disorders across the lifespan. In her practice, she sees a significant number of college-aged young adults navigating life transitions from adolescence to adulthood. As part of her specialty in treating health anxiety and anaphylaxis trauma related to food allergies, Ms. Baker facilitates a low-cost, cognitive-behavioral, virtual psychotherapy group for parents of children with life-threatening food allergies, helping them cope with the stress of managing their child’s invisible, life-threatening condition.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Baker worked in various clinical settings, most notably as a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor at Boston Medical Center’s Center for HIV/AIDS Care and Research. There, she provided long- and short-term outpatient psychotherapy, crisis intervention, and developed a relational women’s psychotherapy group supporting refugees and asylees living with HIV/AIDS. Additionally, she worked for The Cambridge Hospital Department of Psychiatry, providing short-term, solution-focused psychotherapy and crisis intervention for a diverse population of psychiatric inpatients. She also served as a clinician and advocate for On The Rise, Inc., a women’s day shelter, where she provided mental health support and advocacy for unhoused women and non-binary individuals coping with multiple challenges, including trauma, domestic violence, and mental health and substance use disorders, in the Boston and Cambridge areas.
Publications
"5 Tips for Caregivers Managing Food Allergy Anxiety"
Asthma and Allergy Foundation New England Chapter Newsletter, Fall 2025
Presentations
"Anxiety and Food Allergies: Strategies for Patient and Caregiver Well-Being Through the Ages Presentation. "The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of American, New England Chapter Conference 2025
Professional Affiliation
NASW, Board of Directors of Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America