Grace Szeja, LCSW - Therapist in Florida

About Grace

Grace Szeja is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people with family and parenting concerns, stress, anxiety, and mood struggles. She uses clear, straightforward language and a warm approach. She welcomes conversations about identity, grief, and life transitions.

Grace uses she/her pronouns. Grace draws on about 10 years of clinical experience, including hospital work with a wide age range. That background shaped her ability to listen closely and respond to practical needs.

Background and approach

She combines creative, expressive activities with evidence-based techniques to meet each person where they are. In sessions she often blends client-centered care with hands-on creativity. This can include drawing, journaling, sand tray work, or other art-based exercises.

Those activities are paired with cognitive behavioral therapy, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when needed. Grace also pays attention to attachment and meaning in life. She uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand relationship patterns.

Existential questions about purpose, identity, and midlife shifts are part of her work when they come up. Outside of practice she gardens, runs distance routes, and hikes. She previously worked as a fine artist and brings that experience into therapeutic work.

Grace aims to help people make small, doable changes that reduce shame, increase self-kindness, and open space for more satisfying days.

Approaches for online family and parenting support

Grace integrates client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client's lead to build trust and clarity. It helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to talk about family stress, identity, or parenting worries. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and action and teaches straightforward ways to change unhelpful habits and feel better day to day. CBT tools are useful for anxiety, low mood, and problem-solving around parenting and life transitions.

She also draws on attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns and how they affect family life. These models help people see recurring dynamics and try different ways of connecting. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a team effort - the therapist and client work together to decide what fits needs, goals, and personal preferences.

Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexible access. These formats make it possible to fit therapy into busy family schedules, to check in between appointments, and to use creative exercises in a way that suits each person. The variety of session types helps people use therapy when and how it works best for them.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she address?

Grace works with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting issues, grief, trauma and many mood concerns listed in her specialties.

What is her therapy style like?

She uses a warm, client-centered style that mixes conversation with creative activities and practical skill building.

How long has she been practicing clinically?

She has about 10 years of clinical experience, including work in hospital settings with a broad age range.

What credentials and location apply?

She is an LCSW licensed in California (CA LCSW 122605) and Arizona (AZ LCSW LCSW-21902) and practices from Florida.

Which languages are supported and can international clients connect?

Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for online work.

How are costs handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin therapy with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

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Experience: 10 years
Licensed: Florida, Arizona, California
Languages: English

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