Hi, I’m Grace!

I’m a psychotherapist, and also a person continually evolving, finding my way through questions of belonging, identity, connection, and what it means to become more fully myself.

I hold an MSW from Columbia University and an EdM from Harvard, and I'm licensed in New York (LCSW), New Jersey (LCSW), Massachusetts (LICSW), and Illinois (LMSW). My work is about helping people reconnect with parts of themselves that have been pushed aside, protected, or shaped around what others needed them to be, so they can feel more at home in their own lives.

The work, underneath the work

Much of what shapes us was never spoken. We absorb it through relationships, family roles, cultural expectations, silence, and the ways our bodies learn what is and isn’t safe to feel.

Talking about what happened matters. But insight alone doesn’t always create change. Sometimes we understand our patterns perfectly and still find ourselves repeating them. Therapy can go further, helping the nervous system experience something different in real time, in a relationship steady enough to make new possibilities feel real.

That’s the kind of work I’m interested in not only understanding your life, but changing how it feels to live it.

My training includes Internal Family Systems, AEDP, Attachment-Focused EMDR, Brainspotting, Somatic Experiencing, Deep Brain Reorienting, Lifespan Integration, Expressive Arts Therapies, psychodynamic psychotherapy, Narrative Therapy, Schema Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Compassionate Inquiry. With couples, I also draw from Emotionally Focused Therapy, Imago, Non-Violent Communication, and the Gottman Method.

But I don’t run people through a method. I pay attention to what is happening between us, what your system is ready for, and where we are trying to go. Therapy should fit the person, not the other way around.

I work with adults, teens, couples, and families. People come to me with complex trauma, anxiety, depression, emotional intensity, relationship struggles, self-worth, as well as experiences that are harder to name such as a life that no longer fits, a transition with no map, or the feeling of not knowing who you are outside of who you learned to become.

Where I come from

I grew up in an immigrant family, which meant growing up in translation, between languages, cultures, expectations, and different ideas of who I was supposed to be.

That experience eventually carried me across other kinds of borders, through work and volunteer roles alongside survivors of torture, refugees, foster youth, and incarcerated people. I’ve spent much of my life alongside people navigating questions of displacement, identity, belonging, and what survives when a person crosses a border, a generation, or an old version of themselves.

Our histories are not interchangeable. But these experiences taught me that identity is rarely simple, home is not always a place, and some of what matters most about us can be difficult to translate. That understanding shapes how I listen.

My clinical thinking is also influenced by liberation psychology and writers who understood individual suffering in relation to the social and historical worlds in which people live. I hold both levels in therapy: the deeply personal experience of a life, and the larger forces that have helped shape it.

What I bring into the room

Curiosity. Warmth. A respect for complexity and difference. And a belief that therapy isn’t about fixing you or fitting you into a framework.

My role is to create enough steadiness, honesty, and room for you to approach the places in yourself that have been difficult to reach alone, and to discover what becomes possible from there.