Grace Szeja, LCSW

Grace Szeja is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than nine years of hands-on experience in clinical settings. She developed extensive practice working in a hospital environment with people ranging in age from five to ninety, supporting a wide variety of concerns from mood disorders and trauma to relationship and family issues. She uses she/her pronouns and welcomes conversations with people who identify with the LGBTQ+ community as well as those in iGen and Gen Z.

Grace brings a client-centered stance to her work, blending expressive creative techniques with evidence-informed therapies. Her practice incorporates zendoodle, zen journaling, sand tray work, drawing, painting, and clay alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help clients develop new thought patterns, strengthen coping skills, and shift limiting beliefs. She is committed to meeting clients with compassion and respect regardless of age, skin color, or identification.

Before becoming a social worker, Grace worked as a fine artist and comic illustrator, a background that informs her use of creative methods in therapy and her appreciation for people forging their own paths. She helps clients facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, attachment and abandonment issues, parenting concerns, career questions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and other life transitions.

Outside of practice, she enjoys gardening, distance running, and hiking. She has three cats and two rabbits, and others might describe her as kind, gentle, and a meme expert. Grace aims to support people in letting go of what holds them back and in discovering greater joy and self-acceptance.