About Grace
Grace Cost-Chretien is an AASW social worker with six years of practice in Australia. She focuses on practical steps that help people feel steadier when life gets overwhelming. Grace aims to make sessions feel calm and straightforward so clients can talk honestly and find what works for them.
Her work often centres on stress and anxiety, parenting challenges, and relationship concerns. She helps people build self-esteem, grow self-love, and manage anger or career decisions.
Background and approach
She also supports those facing life changes such as pregnancy, becoming a parent, or a midlife rethink. Grace blends several approaches to suit each person's needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques to help people notice values and take small purposeful actions.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy tools are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviours. Somatic work and Internal Family Systems ideas are added when bodily awareness or inner parts work better for the problem at hand. In sessions she keeps language simple and practical.
Conversations often include short exercises, clear strategies to try between sessions, and time to reflect on what helps. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Grace sees therapy as a partnership.
She listens first, then collaborates on goals and plans that fit daily life. People who want down-to-earth support with anxiety, parenting, relationships or a life transition may find this approach useful.
How Grace adapts therapy approaches online
Grace combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy to guide online sessions. ACT helps people notice what truly matters and take small, value-led steps despite anxiety or worry. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the person feels understood and supported as they make changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Grace will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try techniques together to see what fits. That means sessions can evolve - some weeks using practical CBT-style exercises, other weeks focusing on inner parts or body-based noticing if that feels better.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face when convenient, while phone calls need less bandwidth and can suit brief check-ins. Live chat and messaging allow short reflections or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting and daily life, while keeping the focus on finding helpful steps and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
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- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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