Gracia Clark , LPC, LPCC

Gracia Clark (pronounced Gray-sha) is a licensed counselor based in Minnesota with six years of clinical experience supporting people across the lifespan. She holds LPC and LPCC credentials - Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor - qualifications that reflect advanced training in assessment and therapeutic intervention. Gracia has worked in a variety of settings and with diverse presenting concerns, including substance and behavioral addictions, couples work, care for children and teens, anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Her past work has involved helping clients process trauma, address relationship challenges, and build skills for emotional regulation.

Her therapeutic approach blends warmth with clarity. Gracia offers a caring, nonjudgmental environment while remaining willing to challenge patterns and explore difficult truths in a respectful way. She emphasizes practical tools and collaborative problem solving so that people develop their own capacity for healing and growth. Gracia regards the opportunity to support someone through hard times as an important responsibility and approaches each relationship with thoughtfulness and commitment.

She works with concerns such as stress, addiction, trauma and abuse, eating and body-image issues, relationship and intimacy challenges, grief, parenting and family dynamics, and mood disorders including depression and bipolar. Gracia integrates approaches that best fit each person, aiming to help clients move toward greater resilience, connection, and well-being.

Approach-Focused Online Therapy

Gracia draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then identify values-based actions to move forward; this approach is useful for stress, anxiety, and life changes. She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationships shape current patterns, which can be helpful for intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and family dynamics. In sessions informed by Client-Centered Therapy, Gracia offers a supportive, empathetic stance that helps clients articulate goals and build self-understanding at their own pace.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative part of the work. Gracia partners with each person to assess needs, preferences, and goals, and then tailors interventions so therapy fits the individual rather than the other way around.

Online care makes this collaborative process more accessible through flexible formats. Licensed professionals can meet by video call or phone for more in-depth conversation, and they can also offer live chat or text-based messaging for shorter check-ins or when schedules are tight. These options allow clients to engage in therapy from different locations and adapt how they connect as their needs evolve.