Grace Symphony, BACP

Counsellor Grace Symphony is registered with the BACP and has four years' counselling experience in the United Kingdom. She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self esteem, depression and coping with life changes. Sessions focus on what a person brings and how it affects everyday life.

Grace bases her work in a person-centred humanistic outlook. That means conversations start from the person rather than a diagnosis. She also uses elements of transactional analysis to look at patterns that began in early life. This can help explain repeated relationship or thinking styles.

Gestalt ideas feature in her work too, with attention on the here and now. That approach supports noticing where someone feels stuck and trying short experiments in the session to test a different response. Grace describes these methods as practical ways to see what helps in ordinary life.

Before training in counselling she worked for many years as a pharmacist, including roles linked to psychiatry and mental health. That background informs how she thinks about medication alongside talking therapy. She emphasises clear discussion about choices rather than promoting any single path.

Grace lived and worked in Africa for twenty years before returning to the UK. She notes that this experience shaped her awareness of cultural difference and influences how she approaches conversations about identity and belonging.

To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and then books a first session. Fees vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

How her approaches are used in online counselling