Hi, I’m Grace

I use she/they pronouns and I identify as queer. I’ve earned my Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of Kansas in 2015. I went on to pursue and accomplish my Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Regis University in Colorado, May of 2021. I’ve worked in the mental health field over the past 8 years from Kansas, Colorado, California all the way to Australia.

Although working as a therapist fulfilled some parts of me, I realized that clinical mental health wasn’t where I saw myself living out of what truly brings me happiness. I enjoy helping people overcome struggles, heal, and thrive. I recognized that my passion to help others needed to shift from not only helping people heal their relationships with themselves, but also guiding them to a relationship with themselves that could flourish. And yes, I do believe we are capable of not only a sustainable relationship with ourselves and others, but also fulfilling ones - ones that we probably never could have imagined for ourselves.

Parker Palmer wisely wrote, “we can only feel something to the degree that we are willing to meet its depth.”

I hold those words close to my heart because, not only have I witnessed this in the clients that I have worked with over the years, but I have also experienced this myself. I have done my own healing (and continue to do so! It’s important for anyone who wants to help others heal to continually work on their own sh*t - You know, try your own product), trying different avenues like therapy, reiki, tarot readings and much more. What I found is that everything helped, in one way or another, but having someone who stayed along the journey with me and could help me process, challenge me, and dared me to live fully, that’s who helped me in the deep healing and the deep transformation as opposed to my instant gratification solutions.

For a long time, I only accepted the bare minimum for myself. I now look back at that version of myself (with love and compassion, of course) and say f*ck that! I worked through hating myself, disliking myself, being neutral with myself, liking myself and now loving myself. I no longer accept the bare minimum love from others, but that’s because I first had to work on loving myself and working on the most intimate relationship in my life: the one with myself.

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