Grace Cost-Chretien

Grace Cost-Chretien is an AASW counsellor with six years of professional experience in Australia. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and anger. Grace also supports work on relationships, self-esteem and the practical shifts that come with life changes and new parenting roles.

Grace aims to make therapy straightforward and down-to-earth. Sessions are calm and non-judgemental. She encourages people to speak plainly about what is hard and what they want to change.

Her background blends talking therapies and body-aware work. That means conversations about thoughts and feelings, alongside attention to how stress shows up in the body. This mix is useful for clients who notice both worrying thoughts and physical tension.

Grace commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different ways of responding. She also brings client-centred listening and somatic ideas to slow things down when emotions feel overwhelming.

In practical terms, Grace helps with communication issues, commitment worries, guilt and jealousy, and questions about life purpose or midlife change. She also supports people through pregnancy and early parenting challenges and the self-worth work many women seek.

Starting with Grace means a collaborative plan. She works with each person to set small, manageable goals and checks in about what is and isn’t working as therapy progresses.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

Many clients find Acceptance and Commitment Therapy useful for managing unwanted thoughts and feelings. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts without getting swept away and choosing values-led action, which can help reduce reactivity to anger and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns and build new habits.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Grace will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs and goals. Together they decide whether to focus more on thinking patterns, bodily sensations, values or practical skills depending on what helps most.

Confirm the current session options before booking as formats are not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let a person choose sessions that suit their energy level - for example, work that leans on talking or sessions that include grounding body-based exercises. Appropriately qualified or registered professionals can adapt these approaches effectively to remote work, and Grace will discuss practical arrangements when you schedule.