About Grace
Grace Chou is a licensed therapist who brings 21 years of clinical experience to her work. She practices in Maryland and speaks English and Mandarin. Her focus includes anxiety, stress, relationships, career concerns, and everyday coping skills.
She uses straightforward, practical methods so people can start making small changes quickly. Sessions often focus on managing anxiety, improving communication, and strengthening self-esteem. Grace pays attention to cultural background and the details of daily life that affect wellbeing.
Background and approach
Grace blends approaches like cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness practices, and acceptance-based techniques. She helps people recognize unhelpful thinking patterns and build habits that reduce stress. In-session work is collaborative and goal-oriented, with concrete skills to try between meetings.
Her background includes work with career transitions, caregiving stress, grief, and trauma and abuse. She also supports people dealing with workplace problems, money worries, social anxiety, and questions about life purpose. She frames these topics in plain terms and breaks them into manageable steps.
Grace aims to create a respectful space where people can talk through difficult moments and try new ways of coping. She encourages curiosity about small shifts that add up over time. Her practice combines experience with an emphasis on practical skills and cultural sensitivity.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It helps when anxiety or avoidance blocks the life someone wants. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT teaches concrete ways to spot unhelpful thinking and change behavior, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Grace will discuss what feels most useful and adjust methods to match goals and preferences. The process is collaborative - clients and therapist pick practices to try and review what helps most over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let therapists observe tone and facial cues for richer conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between meetings or use brief, focused communication when that suits a schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English, Mandarin
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