About Grace
Grace Szeja, LCSW, greets visitors with warmth and a steady presence. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, grief, and life changes. Grace also supports those working through trauma, parenting concerns, career questions, ADHD, and identity issues related to LGBT experience.
Grace uses a direct, compassionate style in sessions. She listens first and asks clear questions to understand what matters most. Practical tools and creative exercises are mixed into conversation so people leave with skills they can use right away.
Background and approach
Her background includes hospital clinical social work and ten years of practice. Grace also has roots in fine arts, which she weaves into therapy through drawing, journaling, and sand tray work. Those creative methods often help people access feelings that are hard to name.
Sessions commonly draw on client-centered techniques, cognitive behavioral strategies, and dialectical behavior approaches. She pays attention to attachment patterns and life meaning when those areas matter to the person in front of her. The focus is on developing new thought patterns, building coping skills, and noticing personal strengths.
Grace aims to meet people where they are without judgment. She invites a collaborative pace that respects each person’s needs and goals. Outside of work she enjoys gardening, running, hiking, and caring for her pets.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can examine how those patterns affect relationships and emotional responses, helping people shift toward safer ways of connecting.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and pace. In this approach the therapist follows the client's concerns, reflects what she hears, and helps people name feelings and needs to guide change.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Practically, this can mean identifying thinking traps, testing new behaviors, and using short exercises between sessions to build different responses to anxiety or low mood.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Grace collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, comfort, and daily life. She adjusts techniques over time based on what is most helpful in reaching those goals.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual tools, phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging supports brief updates or skill practice between sessions. These options aim to give flexibility while keeping the focus on real progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Arizona, California
- Languages
- English
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