- Client-centered care
- Creative expressive tools
- CBT and DBT skills
About Grace
Grace Szeja is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. She supports people coping with grief, trauma, parenting challenges, career stress, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and issues common to young adults. Grace is welcoming to those who identify as LGBT and to people across generations. She uses she/her pronouns and brings warmth and straightforward care to sessions.
Grace draws on ten years of clinical experience, including hospital-based work with people across the lifespan. Her background in fine arts informs a creative, hands-on approach. She often blends expressive art techniques with talk-based strategies to make therapy feel practical and personal.
In sessions she emphasizes a client-centered stance that centers each person’s goals and preferences. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are used when helpful to shift unhelpful thinking and build coping tools. Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationships and patterns formed in early life.
Grace offers activities like zendoodling, journaling, sand tray, drawing, painting, and clay to complement verbal processing. These tools are used alongside thought-focused exercises and coping skill practice to support self-awareness and self-love. Her aim is to help people create new patterns, set boundaries, and make choices that reflect their values.
Outside of clinical work, she enjoys gardening, distance running, and hiking, and she has three cats and two rabbits. Grace’s background in art and life experience shape a practical, compassionate approach to helping people move forward.
Grace draws on ten years of clinical experience, including hospital-based work with people across the lifespan. Her background in fine arts informs a creative, hands-on approach. She often blends expressive art techniques with talk-based strategies to make therapy feel practical and personal.
In sessions she emphasizes a client-centered stance that centers each person’s goals and preferences. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are used when helpful to shift unhelpful thinking and build coping tools. Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationships and patterns formed in early life.
Grace offers activities like zendoodling, journaling, sand tray, drawing, painting, and clay to complement verbal processing. These tools are used alongside thought-focused exercises and coping skill practice to support self-awareness and self-love. Her aim is to help people create new patterns, set boundaries, and make choices that reflect their values.
Outside of clinical work, she enjoys gardening, distance running, and hiking, and she has three cats and two rabbits. Grace’s background in art and life experience shape a practical, compassionate approach to helping people move forward.