About Grace
Grace Chou uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people manage stress and move forward. She combines clear tools with a calm presence to guide conversations about anxiety, relationships, and life changes. Grace holds MD and LCPC credentials and brings 21 years of clinical experience in Maryland.
Grace focuses on straightforward skills that people can apply between sessions. She helps with worry, low mood, career shifts, communication problems, and parenting strain.
Background and approach
She also supports those coping with grief, trauma, caregiver stress, and workplace issues. Sessions emphasize what matters most to the client. Grace blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with cognitive-behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices to reduce unhelpful thinking and increase meaningful action.
Motivational interviewing is used when people want to clarify goals and make changes at their own pace. Her style is warm and culturally aware. She pays attention to each person’s background and life story, including multicultural concerns and financial stressors.
Conversations are paced so clients feel heard and can try new strategies without pressure. People often come with questions about purpose, self-esteem, social anxiety, or family conflicts. Grace offers coaching-style support alongside clinical care to help people set realistic goals and build everyday routines that support well-being.
She speaks English and Mandarin and works with international clients when needed.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying alternative behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation where the client sets the pace and goals.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Grace will collaborate with each person to pick and adapt methods that fit their needs, goals, and cultural background. The first sessions often include trying different strategies and deciding together what feels most useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good lower-bandwidth option, and chat or messaging allow shorter check-ins or reflection between meetings. These formats provide flexibility for people with varied schedules and practical constraints.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English, Mandarin