About Grace
Grace Penman is an ACA counsellor with four years of clinical experience based in Australia. She works with adults navigating cultural change, identity questions and the wear of everyday stress. Grace aims to create a calm, direct space where people can talk through what feels most urgent to them.
Grace draws on several approaches to tailor sessions to each person. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small steps towards them.
How Grace works
She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at patterns that repeat in relationships and how early connections shape current needs. Sessions often focus on practical skills and simple experiments. Grace may introduce mindfulness exercises to calm the body, or CBT-style tools to name and shift unhelpful thoughts.
For people with trauma, she offers EMDR as a way to process distressing memories alongside talking work. Her work often attends to cross-cultural pressures, guilt, and the tension between family expectations and personal values. She helps people address issues like anxiety, grief, parenting strain, relationship struggles and career uncertainty in bite-sized steps.
Grace aims for a warm, respectful tone in sessions. She helps people find clarity and small, doable changes rather than rushing toward big answers. If someone wants a practical, thoughtful counsellor who understands cultural complexity, Grace offers focused support and collaborative planning.
Grace lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Grace works with
The areas below are the ones Grace selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | ACA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Online approaches that fit real life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take small, values-based steps even when feelings are hard. It suits people dealing with anxiety, life transitions and questions about purpose. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current bonds and communication. It can help people understand recurring conflict, intimacy worries and trust issues. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that supports processing distressing memories alongside talk-based work and can reduce the emotional charge of past events.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose what fits their needs, goals and comfort level. Approaches can be blended and adjusted over time as priorities shift and progress is tracked together.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lessons and calls let people use visual cues and do structured exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit ongoing reflection between sessions or times when typing feels easier. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, study and family commitments while keeping the focus on practical, stepwise change.
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