About Grace
Grace Symphony is a humanistic counsellor who uses a person-centred style to help people talk through difficult feelings. She is registered with the BACP, and she aims to offer a calm, accepting space where clients can begin to make sense of their experiences. Grace draws on humanistic ideas about self-discovery and personal growth.
She also uses elements of transactional analysis to look at how early life patterns shape current thinking.
How Grace works
Gestalt ideas help keep focus on the present moment and on where someone might be getting stuck. Her background includes many years working as a pharmacist, with a long involvement in psychiatry, trauma and mental health settings. That clinical experience informs how she listens and the practical, down-to-earth way she speaks with people.
She emphasises understanding the whole person rather than only symptoms. Having lived and worked in Africa for two decades before returning to the United Kingdom, Grace brings multicultural awareness to sessions and pays attention to cultural context. She describes herself as compassionate and accepting and aims to support people through their healing journey.
Grace has four years of practice specifically in counselling work in addition to her pharmacy career. She offers sessions in English using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Where needed she can talk about how medication and talking therapy may fit together, drawing on her prior clinical experience.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Grace mainly uses a person-centred humanistic approach that focuses on helping people discover their own strengths and choices. This approach is about listening, reflecting what you say, and supporting your personal growth in everyday language.She also uses transactional analysis to map out repeating life patterns and how early relationships shape current reactions; this can help with understanding where certain feelings come from. Gestalt techniques are used to bring attention to the present moment and notice where someone feels stuck, which can make short-term shifts more possible.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will discuss goals, try different ways of working, and adjust methods to fit what the client needs and prefers. It is a collaborative process focused on what helps most in day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video makes it easier to see facial cues, phone can be lower bandwidth and less visual, chat suits quick check-ins and messages suit ongoing support between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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