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Dr. Jing Baer

Dr. Jing Baer

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Founder and Clinical Director of Roiya, LMFT, RDT

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Join date: Aug 15, 2025

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Dr. Jing Baer, LMFT, RDT, is the founder and clinical director of Roiya Center for Experiential Healing in Silicon Valley. Her work integrates psychodrama, drama therapy, and role theory to help individuals, couples, families, and groups transform insight into embodied change.

With over a decade of clinical and experiential training, Jing has guided diverse communities through trauma healing, relational growth, and creative resilience.

Her writing explores the intersection of psychology, culture, and lived experience, how language, emotion, and power shape the ways we relate to ourselves and others.

Through her essays, Jing invites readers to move beyond understanding into practice: sensing, experimenting, and reclaiming authenticity in real life.

Posts (5)

Feb 16, 2026 ∙ 4 min

ADHD and Autism: Not Labels to Fix, but Nervous Systems to Understand

ADHD and Autism are not character flaws but distinct neurobiological patterns, often overlapping yet driven by different regulatory needs. When we understand those differences—within ourselves or our relationships—we move from blame and shame toward translation, accommodation, and deeper connection. One of the most common questions I hear in my office is this: “Am I ADHD or autistic? Because honestly… I feel like both.” Sometimes it’s an adult who has spent years feeling “off”; Sometimes it’s...

Oct 27, 2025 ∙ 4 min

Rethinking Trauma and Growth Through the ROI Lens

Trauma isn’t only what happens to us, but what happens inside when support is missing. Through the ROI lens, healing means updating the old roles we created to survive, not erasing them. Like the art of kintsugi or the rebirth through fire, post-traumatic growth transforms the cracks of our past into lines of strength and beauty.

Oct 16, 2025 ∙ 4 min

ROI Model: Change the Roles, Change the Story

The ROI (Role-Oriented Integrated) model treats stuck patterns as role problems, not willpower problems. You map the roles you play across four dimensions—social, emotional, family, and somatic—then design upgrades and rehearse them until your body knows what to do under stress. The result is coordinated change that shows up in real life and lasts.

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