Donald Baer

The stresses people carry into Donald Baer’s office take many shapes — a child who can’t keep up in school, a couple talking past each other, a teenager whose anxiety has started to shape every decision he makes. Baer, a Licensed Professional Counselor based in Fort Worth, Texas, has spent more than four decades helping children, adolescents, and families untangle exactly that kind of pressure. His work spans individual counseling, marriage and family therapy, and psychological testing and assessment, with particular depth in developmental disorders, mood and depressive disorders, anxiety, impulse control, and adjustment challenges across the lifespan.

His background is unusually broad. He trained in group therapy, marriage and family therapy, and clinical hypnosis, and has worked with children managing serious medical conditions — birth defects, genetic conditions, facial differences — alongside kids who simply struggle to sit still in class or talk to their parents without it turning into a fight. He knows, too, that a family argument about putting the phone down at dinner rarely ends with the phone; it usually points to something older and harder underneath.

Easygoing and plain-spoken, Baer’s goal is to meet people where they actually are, then help them find new ways of thinking and acting that hold up in real life. He offers online sessions in addition to in-person work.