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Grace Szeja

Compassionate, creative clinical social worker

LCSW Florida

Experience
10 years in practice
Focus areas
Stress, Anxiety, Self esteem, Depression
Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Attachment-Based Therapy
Languages
English
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About Grace

Grace Szeja is a licensed clinical social worker who blends practical skills with creative sensitivity to help people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, grief, trauma, and identity concerns.

Background and approach

With ten years of clinical work, she draws on a background in hospital settings and a history in fine arts to offer thoughtful, person-focused care that honors each client’s experience and identity. Grace uses client-centered principles to cultivate a respectful, collaborative space where clients explore goals, values, and healing at their own pace.

Her approach weaves Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) techniques with expressive and art-based methods such as drawing, journaling, zendoodle, sand tray, painting, and clay work. This combination supports shifts in thinking patterns, the development of practical coping skills, and deeper emotional processing.

Grace emphasizes building self-compassion, addressing attachment and family-of-origin issues, and working through feelings of emptiness, shame, or abandonment. Grace practices as an LCSW and welcomes clients who are seeking help with life transitions, parenting concerns, career stress, mood disorders including bipolar and ADHD-related challenges, and young adult issues.

Her demeanor is described as kind and gentle, and she often encourages clients to reclaim joy and pursue a life aligned with their values.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Grace frequently integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based methods into online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against evidence, then building concrete coping strategies to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores relational patterns formed early in life and helps clients understand and shift how they relate to others and manage closeness or separation worries.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Grace partners with clients to assess needs, goals, and preferences and tailors techniques accordingly, mixing structured CBT tools, attachment-focused exploration, or client-centered, expressive methods as appropriate for each person’s situation.

Online sessions can be offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which allows for flexibility around work, family, and travel. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care and to practice skills between sessions while fitting therapy into a busy life.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Grace address?
She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and family issues, parenting and career stress, mood disorders such as bipolar, ADHD, and identity-related topics like LGBT concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Grace uses a client-centered, compassionate style that combines practical skill-building with creative expression to help clients explore values, process emotions, and develop healthier coping patterns.
What is her clinical background and experience?
She has 10 years of clinical experience, including work in hospital settings, and brings a prior career in fine arts into her therapeutic work.
What credentials and location information are available?
She is an LCSW licensed in California and Arizona with the identifiers CA LCSW 122605 and AZ LCSW LCSW-21902, and is based in Florida.
Can she work with international clients and what languages are offered?
Yes, international clients are accepted and sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats does she offer?
Sessions are available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different scheduling and communication preferences.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working with her?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a brief matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist’s availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietySelf esteemDepressionCoping with life changes

Also works with

LGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseGriefParenting issuesCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesEmptinessFamily of origin issuesGuilt and shameLife purposeMidlife crisisMood disordersPost-traumatic stressSelf-loveYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Existential TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingSolution-Focused Therapy

Experience

10+ years

Licensed

Florida, Arizona, California

Languages

English