Grace Symphony, BACP

Grace Symphony is a humanistic counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), a UK professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists. She offers a compassionate, accepting space where people can explore difficult thoughts and emotions and work toward greater self-understanding. Grace’s practice is grounded in a person-centred foundation that emphasises free will, self-discovery and the whole person rather than only symptoms, and she integrates transactional analysis and Gestalt techniques to provide practical tools for understanding patterns and focusing on the present.

Grace specialises in supporting people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and coping with life changes. She also works with related challenges such as attachment and abandonment issues, dissociation, chronic illness and pain, fertility and fatherhood concerns, domestic violence and gender dysphoria. Drawing on transactional analysis, she helps clients see how early life experiences shape current relationships and thinking. Gestalt work is used to bring attention to here-and-now experience where clients may be getting stuck.

Before training as a counsellor, Grace spent 40 years working as a pharmacist with a focus on psychiatry, trauma and mental health, and she brings that clinical background to conversations about treatment options. She also lived and worked in Africa for 20 years, and that multicultural experience informs a culturally sensitive approach. With four years of counselling experience, Grace aims to empower people on a journey toward healing, wholeness and inner calm while working collaboratively to navigate life’s challenges.