About Gracia
Gracia Clark uses a practical, person-focused approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and relationship struggles. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with additional licensure as an LPCC in Minnesota and brings six years of counseling experience. Her style is warm and direct, offering steady support while helping clients face difficult truths and build new skills.
She works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar disorder, grief, and eating or body-image issues.
Background and approach
Gracia also supports people dealing with parenting challenges, intimacy-related problems, and healing from addiction. She pays attention to how past attachments and family of origin issues shape current behavior. In sessions she blends practical therapies such as cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior strategies with acceptance and commitment ideas.
Attachment-based work and client-centered listening guide how she builds trust and explores relationship dynamics. Sessions typically focus on small, doable steps that fit into everyday life. Gracia has experience in several clinical settings and has worked with people facing a variety of mental health concerns and life transitions.
She aims to help clients gain emotional regulation skills, clearer communication habits, and workable plans for change. Her approach balances compassion with straightforward feedback. People who want clear tools and honest support often choose her for short- and longer-term work.
She offers conversations that are caring without avoiding hard topics, and she helps clients move from feeling stuck to finding concrete ways forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values. It is often useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors; it is commonly used for depression, anxiety, and some eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they affect current connections, which can help with intimacy, family of origin issues, and communication problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gracia will collaborate with each person to choose elements that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She mixes approaches when helpful and checks in regularly to see what is working and what needs adjusting.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection helps. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use written updates when that format feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit regular therapy into work, parenting, and other responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Minnesota
- Languages
- English