Grace Hiltner Psychologist

Grace is a Registered Psychologist and Clinical Registrar who brings her personal warmth, kindness, and compassion into her therapeutic work. Grace works to create a strong and trusting therapeutic relationship with clients as she feels that this is the foundation of meaningful change. She has a healthy sense of humour which is balanced by her gentle and patient interpersonal style. Grace brings a trauma-informed perspective to assist her clients in creating a more rich and meaningful life by helping them to release themselves from patterns that no longer serve them and move towards a more healthy, real version of themselves. Grace has experience in working with clients across the lifespan in both individual and group settings, experiencing a variety of difficulties including depression and other mood disorders, anxiety, interpersonal issues, neurodevelopmental challenges and neurodiversity, personality vulnerabilities, trauma (both single-event and complex trauma), life adjustments/transitions, and eating disorders. She is particularly passionate about the expression of developmental trauma in adulthood and facilitating longer-term therapy with clients who have long-standing challenges with their sense of self. Grace has experience in a variety of therapeutic modalities that fall under a Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy umbrella including Interpersonal Therapy, DBT, Mindful Self-Compassion, Metacognitive and Mentalisation-Based Therapies, but predominantly practices from an Attachment-Focused Psychodynamic approach. This means Grace works to understand client’s present challenges in the context of their developmental history and is interested in the underlying basis for one’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Through increased insight, she believes clients can feel greater freedom to make informed choices and develop a more cohesive sense of self. Grace is available from early January 2024 on Mondays and Thursdays at Healing Connections Psychology. She sees adults aged 18+.