Grace is an Art Therapist with over 18 years’ experience in mental health provision for young people and adults in statutory, community and charitable organisations. She has worked within inner-city London schools for over 15’ years, including a Children’s Centre, providing early intervention for children and families experiencing complex and developmental trauma, mental distress and bereavement, including families from refugee backgrounds.

Grace has recently collaborated with an Artist, Art Educator and Playworker to deliver trauma informed quarterly sensory-led art and play sessions for families seeking refuge living in local hotels in West London.

Grace strives for the language and culture of Art Therapy services to be creative and inclusive.

And she says: "I always strive to maintain Culturally Sensitive and dynamic therapeutic interventions that support children and young people with relevant, sensitive, and creative ways to engage with their mental health and overall wellbeing.”

In recent years Grace has set up private practice and has been working with local children who are often navigating transition, loss, emotional distress, anxiety, intense school distress and attendance difficulties.

Grace has trained in an Integrative Embodied Psychotherapy approach which draws on a wide range of techniques from the practices of body-oriented psychotherapy, dance movement psychotherapy, somatic experiencing, somatic trauma therapy, IFS, neuroscience, transpersonal psychotherapy, creative arts therapies and mindfulness.

Embodied Psychotherapy techniques can be very helpful used alongside Art Therapy as it integrates the physical body, movement, breath, and the nervous system into the healing process.

‘I really do thank you Grace for helping me go through the problems that I struggled with and my worries. Without the Art Therapy I probably never would have found a way to express myself and my feelings. The Art Therapy showed me that art doesn't only come from the brush, it comes from the heart.’ Child - Y6

‘This year has been a really rough one and I have struggled a lot. The Art Therapy has eased the pain from it. Thank you Grace.’ Child - Y6