Grace (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Certified Body Trust Provider. She specializes in working with teens and adults on issues related to: disordered eating, body image, queer and trans identity, childhood trauma, sexual trauma, chronic illness, foster care and adoption, and neurodivergence. She also loves working with other therapists, healers, and helpers. As a Certified Body Trust Provider, Grace has specialized training in supporting people to heal their relationships to their bodies, to food, and to movement, and to reclaim their birthright of trusting their bodies' needs, hungers, and desires. She helps people connect their past and current experiences to the context of societal expectations and systems of oppression, supporting people in rewriting their stories of trauma and hardship in their own voice.
Grace received her Masters in Social Work from Portland State University, and has worked in school, community mental health, nonprofit, and private practice settings. She is certified in EMDR therapy and also integrates narrative therapy, parts work, feminist therapy, and DBT skills when helpful. Above all, Grace believes that the therapeutic relationship is of utmost importance to clients' healing journeys, and she values trust, respect, humor, and connection with her clients.