Grace Simmons, APC is a therapist providing counseling services to individuals of all ages. She has experience working with children starting at age 6, teens, young adults, couples, and families. While attending Truett McConnell University, she earned a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling, with a concentration in Clinical Mental Health. Grace is passionate about assisting clients who have been impacted by anxiety, depression, ADHD and behavioral issues, foster care and adoption, grief and loss, and family conflict.

Her post-graduate work brought her to Georgia Hope where she provided school and community-based therapy to children and teens of various ages before joining Atlanta Counseling Collective. She is passionate about meeting clients where they are and building a strong therapeutic relationship. She has found that therapy is most effective when it is viewed as a partnership between the counselor and client.

Grace utilizes an eclectic approach to therapy in order to customize her methods to fit the client’s needs. Two approaches she most often utilizes when working with adults and children are Narrative therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). She has also been trained to implement Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) when working with children.

 

Grace’s post-graduate training:

– Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

– Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

– Play Therapy

– Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI)

– Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

– Expressive Arts

 

 

 

 

Grace Simmons, APC is a therapist providing counseling services to individuals of all ages. She has experience working with children, teens, young adults, couples, and families. While attending Truett McConnell University, she earned a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling, with a concentration in Clinical Mental Health. Grace is passionate about assisting clients who have been impacted by anxiety, depression, foster care and adoption, grief and loss, and family conflict.

Her post-graduate work brought her to Georgia Hope where she provided school and community-based therapy to children and teens of various ages before joining Atlanta Counseling Collective. She is passionate about meeting clients where they are and building a strong therapeutic relationship. She has found that therapy is most effective when it is viewed as a partnership between the counselor and client.

Grace utilizes an eclectic approach to therapy in order to customize her methods to fit the client’s needs. Two approaches she most often utilizes when working with adults and children are Narrative therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). She has also been trained to implement Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) when working with children.