Grace Duarte de Baker, MSW, LCSW, CCTS-I

11/13/2025

🌿 Dear Fellow Therapist and Healer, 🌿
If your nervous system could speak… it might ask when was the last time you got to be the one unpacking the weight of it all?

We carry stories. We transmute pain. We show up. And sometimes, we forget we’re still healing too.

✨ I offer therapy for therapists and other healers rooted in trauma-responsiveness and radical compassion.

My approach blends:
🌀 Jungian SandPlay
🧠 Brainspotting
🎨 Sensorimotor Art Therapy
🌱 Dreamwork
🔥 Transpersonal, Mesoamerican Philosopy
🪶 Intergenerational Trauma Care
🧘🏽‍♀️ KAP (Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy)
❤️‍🩹 Psychedelic prep + integration
🧬 And deep respect for the Wounded Healer in all of us

Because your wounds are not a liability—they are your talking medicine.

And yes, the world needs your medicine. But you do too.

📍In-person: East Memphis, TN
📍Virtual in all of CA, TN, MS, AR
📞 (901) 245-2922
📧 totalidealu@gmail.com
Professional courtesy discounts for pre-licensed and licensed therapists.

Let’s make room for your healing too.

11/13/2025

The VA is expanding psychedelic-assisted therapy trials for PTSD and depression at nine facilities, exploring new hope for treatment-resistant veterans.

11/12/2025

In October, 2015, Hunt Priest, then a minister at an Episcopalian church in Washington State, was flipping through The Christian Century when an advertisement caught his eye: “Seeking Clergy to Take Part in a Research Study of Psilocybin and Sacred Experience.” Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and N.Y.U. wanted to administer psilocybin—the compound in magic mushrooms—to see how the faithful responded. Would psychedelic experiences enhance the well-being and vocation of study participants, as compared with participants in a control group who were still waiting for a session? Would the experience renew their faith, or perhaps make them question it? At the link in our bio, Michael Pollan, the author of “How to Change Your Mind,” reports on the results of the study and speaks with participants about how the experience impacted their understanding of the divine: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/-V9WSS

11/04/2025

You are not one person, you are many people, you are a community of moods and selves under one name. Parts of you aren’t even human, they’re part mammal, part reptile, part rose, part moon, part wind. And life is a question of which parts are dominant—which, in effect, possess you. (I think most people walk around possessed by the dullest parts of themselves; this, the worst state of possession, is called “normal.”) ~ Michael Ventura, Centre of Applied Jungian Studies.

Art: ♥️

11/01/2025

11/01/2025

🌟 Because healing shouldn’t come with a price tag.
I’m offering low or no-cost therapy for immigrants, refugees, families, and protesters navigating stress in today’s political climate.
📍Available virtually in CA, TN, MS, and AR — and in-person in East Memphis.
🗣️ Spanish. English. Spanglish.
📞 (901) 245-2922
📧 totalidealu@gmail.com

🧡 Healing rooted in Our Language, Our Story, Our Power.

10/31/2025

I was first trained in IFS in 2010 but I don't do it like this. 🙋🏽‍♀️

In recent years, Internal Family Systems has exploded in popularity. IFS, which was conceived by Richard C. Schwartz in the 1980s, is centered around the idea that each individual has multiple selves, known as parts. Patients will single out parts, locate them in their bodies, and engage them in conversation to help relieve their emotional burdens.

TikTok is flooded with numerous videos mentioning IFS, more than 45,000 mental-health practitioners in the Psychology Today database offer it as a treatment, and celebrities including Gwyneth Paltrow and Elizabeth Gilbert have praised the practice.

The scientific community takes a much less enthusiastic view of the practice.

A growing number of psychiatrists and psychologists are emerging with urgent warnings about the therapy, casting IFS as a simplistic allegory and, at the worst, a dangerous pseudoscience. While some patients find relief through IFS, critics argue that it’s likely owing to the way it shifts responsibility for one’s actions onto another persona or the fact that it recycles aspects of traditional talk therapy that are, in fact, helpful.

For patients with vulnerabilities like complex PTSD, disordered eating, or psychosis — many of the very people IFS practitioners are taught to treat — the therapy could destabilize already fragile mental states.

Read Rachel Corbett’s full report on the widely popular treatment that some patients say have destroyed their lives: https://nymag.visitlink.me/l-u20g

10/30/2025

🚨 Therapist Emergency 🚨
You’re 45 minutes into the session, your client’s grounded, you’re not, and you’re side-eyeing that perfectly untouched tissue box on the coffee table like:

💭 “Would it be unethical to grab one… just one… for me?”

Dear colleague, this is your reminder:
You deserve the coffee table tissues too.
And maybe a therapist. 💛

📍 East Memphis, TN or Virtual (TN, CA, MS, AR)
📥 Therapy for Therapists and Healers Available
📞 (901) 245-2922
📧 totalidealu@gmail.com
Professional courtesy discount to licensed and pre-licensed therapists, and other healers.

10/29/2025

In support of Domestic Violence Awareness Month en español! 🖥 🎤🗣☂️✨️🌟

10/29/2025

Come hear the conversation for Domestic Violence Awareness Month! 2pm CST Today I'll be on CasaLuz En Vivo. Don't miss it! No te lo pierdas!

10/27/2025

✨ Now Serving CA, TN, MS & AR ✨
Clinical therapy rooted in science, culture, and spirit — for individuals, couples, families, and professionals.

📍 In-person in East Memphis
💻 Virtual in all licensed states
🌿 Trauma-informed | Culturally-grounded | Spiritually attuned

📞 (901) 245-2922
📧 totalidealu@gmail.com

🧠 Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
🌀 Brainspotting
🎨 Jungian SandPlay Therapy
💭 Dreamwork
🫀 Therapy for Therapists
🌱 Psychedelic Preparation & Integration

✨ Ahora también en CA, TN, MS y AR✨
Terapia clínica en inglés, español y Spanglish — para individuos, parejas, familias y terapeutas.

📍 Presencial en East Memphis
💻 Virtual en todos los estados con licencia
🌿 Enfoque informado en trauma, basado en la cultura y el espíritu

📞 (901) 245-2922
📧 totalidealu@gmail.com

🧠 Psicoterapia Asistida por Ketamina
🌀 Brainspotting
🎨 Juego de Arena Jungiano
💭 Trabajo con Sueños
🫀 Terapia para Terapeutas
🌱 Integración y Preparacion Psicodélica