Grace Symphony
Compassionate humanistic counsellor focused on recovery
About Grace
Grace Symphony is a humanistic counsellor who works from a person-centred foundation. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP - and brings warmth and acceptance to conversations about stress, anxiety, trauma and low mood. Grace uses open, straightforward talk to help people name what is troubling them.
She focuses on personal strengths and choice rather than only on symptoms. Sessions aim to help people feel heard and begin to make small, practical changes.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on transactional analysis to look at how early life experiences shape current thinking. She also uses Gestalt ideas to help people notice patterns in the present moment and identify where they feel stuck. Grace spent two decades living and working in Africa before returning to the United Kingdom, and she highlights cultural sensitivity in her practice.
Before training as a counsellor she worked for many years as a pharmacist, including roles related to psychiatry and trauma. She combines her healthcare background with counselling to offer both practical thinking and emotional support. Grace describes therapy as a collaborative journey aimed at healing, rediscovering strengths and finding steadier ways to cope with life changes.
People who come to her often bring worries about abandonment, attachment, chronic illness or pain, fertility and relationship endings, as well as concerns such as dissociation, guilt and shame. Grace aims to create a calm space for exploring these issues and planning next steps.
What Grace works with
Sessions & fees
How Grace’s Approaches Work Online
Grace draws on person-centred humanistic work that focuses on the individual’s choices, values and strengths. This approach helps people clarify what matters to them and build on their own resources when facing stress, anxiety or life changes.She also uses transactional analysis to help identify patterns that come from early relationships. That approach looks at how past interactions shape current thinking and behaviour, which can be useful for issues like attachment, abandonment and relationship endings.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and Grace treats it as a collaborative task. She will work with clients to try methods, notice what helps, and adjust the plan based on goals and personal preferences rather than imposing a single route forward.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Messaging and live chat suit shorter updates or times when writing feels more comfortable.
These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and mobility issues, and they allow people to continue regular support even when life is busy.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
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 counselling
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
