About Grace
Grace Penman is an ACA counsellor with four years of clinical experience. She supports adults from mixed cultural backgrounds as they handle identity, belonging and the practical pressures of adult life. Grace listens without judgement and helps people find clearer choices when they feel pulled in different directions.
Many people arrive feeling torn between family expectations and their own values. That tension can cause anxiety, guilt or a sense of not being enough.
Background and approach
Grace helps clients name those feelings and make decisions that feel more authentic to them. Her work often focuses on life transitions such as studying or working in a new country, raising children across cultures, or navigating a relationship with different cultural upbringings. She offers practical tools to manage stress and rebuild a sense of belonging during change.
Grace uses a combination of approaches to address both thoughts and body-held responses. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and take meaningful steps, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to reshape unhelpful thinking. She also uses Attachment-Based ideas and EMDR to work with relational and intergenerational wounds held in the body.
Sessions are conversational and paced to each person. Grace aims to help clients reclaim their voice, reconnect with what matters to them, and build everyday strategies to cope with anxiety, grief or life changes.
Approaches that suit online therapy and change
Grace commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify their values and take small, concrete steps. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that align with what matters, which can reduce avoidance and worry.She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to build practical coping skills. CBT is often helpful for managing anxiety, low mood and stress through structured exercises and behavioural experiments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Grace collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adapts the plan as needs change, so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different circumstances. Video is useful for deeper conversation and emotional work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text helps with short check-ins or when writing feels safer. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around study, work and family commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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