Canaan Baker

I believe meaning can be made through your life experiences.

Canaan, a native Floridian, has a deep passion for helping others. Since relocating to the Dallas-Fort Worth area in the spring of 2015, he has earned a Master of Arts in Human Services Counseling with a concentration in Life Coaching from Liberty University and a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling from Amberton University. He is also a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (TX #15754), Licensed Professional Counselor-Associate (TX #94965) and is credentialed as a Board-Certified Professional Christian Counselor through the International Board of Christian Care.

Before his counseling career, Canaan accumulated over twenty years of experience in the financial services industry. His roles encompassed quality assurance, training, and management across various sectors, including mortgage, banking, insurance, and student and auto loans. This extensive background has provided him with a well-rounded perspective, enabling him to assist clients in finding balance while navigating life’s stressors. Since graduating, Canaan has specialized in substance use counseling, working with both male and female adolescents and adults through individual and group treatment modalities. His counseling approach is rooted in existentialism, which helps guide clients to find meaning through their life experiences.

Canaan also provides Christian life coaching and counseling and is the author of a self-coaching book titled, The Disciplined Dreamer. The Disciplined Dreamer is Canaan's personal story of everything he had to endure while achieving one of his long-term goals: completing his bachelor’s degree. In this book, he shares his joys, sorrows, passion, and progress along that journey. Canaan hopes that everything he shares will awaken the dreams inside of everyone who reads it. Each chapter holds valuable lessons that he still employs to this day. He chose to convey those lessons using the analogy of a voyage at sea, believing it to be the best way to help readers understand and connect his journey to their own. Canaan never realized that a simple decision would impact the entire trajectory of his life the way it has, but this book is proof that every step taken towards one's goals serves as a building block for the next. The Disciplined Dreamer can be ordered here: https://www.blurb.com/b/8834027-the-disciplined-dreamer