About Grace
Grace Szeja is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, mood disorders, ADHD, and life transitions. She uses simple, direct conversation to help clients name what is hard and find small, doable steps forward. Grace works from a kind, nonjudgmental stance and aims to make therapy feel practical and hopeful.
Grace has ten years of clinical experience, including work in hospital settings. She has worked with a wide age range and with many kinds of concerns.
Background and approach
Her background in fine arts shapes a creative approach to care and a relaxed, down-to-earth style. In sessions she leans on client-centered work that follows each person’s priorities. She combines that with cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and DBT skills for managing big emotions.
Attachment-based ideas and existential questions also show up when people want to understand where their patterns come from and what gives life meaning. She often uses expressive art activities such as drawing, journaling, sand tray, clay, and zendoodle to help people access feelings when words are hard.
These tools are paired with practical exercises to build coping skills and change behaviors day to day. Grace welcomes people who identify as LGBT and often connects with younger adults navigating identity and purpose. Outside of work she enjoys gardening, distance running, hiking, and spending time with her animals.
Her approach emphasizes gentle curiosity, creativity, and actionable steps toward feeling more like yourself.
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape how people relate to others today. It helps when patterns of closeness or distance cause repeated conflict or loneliness. Client-centered therapy centers the person’s experience and priorities, giving people space to set goals and to be heard without judgment. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers clear exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Grace will listen to your concerns, try different ideas, and adjust methods based on what feels helpful. She aims to build a plan with you that fits your goals and daily life rather than imposing a single method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual exercises, phone sessions can fit a lunch break or lower bandwidth situations, and live chat or text messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to use creative tools, practice skills in real time, and build consistency around the demands of work, school, or family life.
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What this therapist works with
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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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