Miriam Grace

Accepting new clients and supervisees from September 2024

Menopause • Sexuality • Relationship Break-up • Empty Nest • Caring for / Loss of Parent • Parenting • Chronic Health & Acute Health Challenges • Confidence & Anxiety • Life Path & Meaning • Fulfilment

FOR WOMEN IN LIFE CHANGING SITUATIONS

I am a psychotherapist with 35 years experience. I specialise in guiding all who identify as women to find their unique identity, to trust and accept themselves and to manage any difficult symptoms.

Many of my clients in life’s transitions are exploring their sexuality, finding their voice, experiencing the end of relationships. Midlife and menopause can provide a pause and a space to evaluate, to change direction, or to grieve the losses and lack of fulfilment.

I work with a focus on the client’s inner voice and inner oppression with an understanding of the social context and history that has led to this. Working in student wellbeing recently has given me increased experience of and appreciation of working with neuro-diversity.

I aim to provide support to people who have experienced Minority Stress through race, sex, disability, gender or sexuality and if I can’t take you on as a client I hope some of my writing can support you or support another therapist to support you if your area of need is new to them.

I offer individual sessions, couples and groups sessions, retreats, tutoring and training workshops in the UK and abroad. My approach is humanistic and transpersonal arising from extensive training and experience. Take a look at my experience as a psychotherapist, supervisor, coach, university lecturer and trainer on my website www.blue-skies.org.uk

I work from my home in Derbyshire, near Sheffield and Chesterfield.

My enthusiasm, care and knowledge for clients has resulted in a successful, full time private practice working with a diverse client group. 

I am currently working with a private clients and supervisees and running groups – including online – to support women going through life’s transitions. 

I write articles and blogs and training courses and am working on a new book. I work part time with the Wellbeing Service at Sheffield Hallam University where my mainly younger client group keep me up to date and provide me with insight into the other side of many parenting dilemmas.

My work experience has included providing:

Personal therapy

Therapy groups

Couples therapy

Retreats and workshops

Writing Degree Programmes in Psychotherapy

Tutoring university students

Supervising academic dissertations

Supervising applications for accreditation

Supervising clinical practice

Coaching

Laughter Yoga

Contracts within the voluntary Sector, Social Services, the prison service, Higher Education and the Health Service to provide training and clinical supervision.

You can be notified of my work by subscribing to my newsletter, checking my website, reading my blog, following my professional facebook page or emailing me.

I have been in practice for 35 years.

I trained in supervision with Maria Gilbert in the early 1990s and have taught on supervision trainings at Derby University.

I am fully qualified in Gestalt, Person Centred and Humanistic. I have additional qualifications in psychosynthesis and I work in an embodied way. I specialise trauma, menopause and sexuality.

My groups are creative, non-judgmental and safe. I don't have any one to one spaces at the moment but I do have a space in a Friday morning group £40 per month, 2 hours.