Grace Szeja, LCSW

Grace Szeja is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in California and Arizona with ten years of experience. She works with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, career questions, ADHD and mood disorders. She also supports people facing life changes, LGBT issues, relationship and family concerns, and young adult challenges.

Grace takes a practical, person-focused approach. Sessions center on what a person is facing now and what changes are possible. She uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and dialectical behavior methods alongside attachment-based ideas to address patterns that cause pain. Creative activities such as drawing, journal work, sand tray and clay are offered when they suit a client's style.

Her clinical background includes hospital work with a wide age range. Before social work she worked as a fine artist, and she brings that creative experience into how she helps people name emotions and try new behaviors. She uses simple skill practice, tracking thoughts and experimenting with new responses in life situations.

Conversations in sessions include practical problem solving, building coping skills, and paying attention to relationship patterns that repeat. Grace notices the ways early attachments and family of origin issues can shape current choices, and she helps clients work through feelings such as guilt, shame, abandonment and emptiness.

Outside of clinical work she runs, gardens, and makes art. She uses she/her pronouns and sees therapy as a place to test change, not only to talk about it. If you want to work on specific skills, changing unhelpful thoughts, or using creative exercises to process feelings, she may be a good fit.

How Grace blends practical approaches for online work