About Grace
Grace Szeja is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She supports people working through grief, trauma, parenting challenges, career decisions, ADHD, mood disorders, and identity questions. Grace uses a warm, straightforward style and aims to make the first steps feel manageable.
She brings ten years of clinical experience, including hospital work with a wide age range. Grace often connects with people who identify as LGBT and with younger adults navigating identity and purpose.
Background and approach
She prefers plain language and practical tools over jargon. Grace centers sessions on the person in front of her. She practices client-centered work and blends that with cognitive behavioral tools to notice and change unhelpful thoughts.
She also draws on dialectical strategies to teach emotional regulation and distress tolerance. Art and creativity are part of her approach. She often offers expressive activities such as drawing, painting, journaling, clay work, sand tray, and zendoodling alongside talk-based techniques.
These methods can help people access feelings and try new ways of coping when words alone feel hard. Grace describes therapy as a collaborative process. She helps people build new habits, shift limiting beliefs, and reconnect with their goals.
Outside of work she gardens, runs long distances, hikes, and cares for three cats and two rabbits.
Therapeutic approaches and online care options
Grace frequently draws from client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on empathy and understanding, helping people feel heard while they name their goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors, teaching practical steps to change unhelpful patterns and manage mood or anxiety symptoms.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy techniques when emotional regulation or distress tolerance are priorities. DBT skills help people notice strong emotions, tolerate difficult moments, and build healthier ways of responding. These approaches suit concerns like anxiety, mood challenges, relationship patterns, and stress from life changes.
Finding the right method is part of the work together. Grace will collaborate with each person to select approaches that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions can adapt over time, mixing talk, skills practice, and creative exercises as needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how and when to meet. Video calls allow a face-to-face feel for skills practice and creative exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, between-session support, or for people who prefer writing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the work focused and practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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