Grace Tiri

Grace Tiri is an AASW social worker with four years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, eating concerns, bipolar symptoms and depression. She sees clients who are coping with life changes and aims to offer steady, practical help. Grace believes people know their own story and brings a respectful, strengths-based way of working.

In sessions she listens first and then helps clients set small, achievable goals. Conversations focus on practical steps, building skills and noticing what already works. She frames change as a gradual process and encourages people to try techniques between meetings.

Grace combines client-centred listening with approaches such as cognitive behavioural therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are also part of her work when they suit someone’s needs. She adapts tools to the person rather than the other way around.

People might come for help with body image, eating and food-related issues, feelings of shame or guilt, and mood swings. She also supports those dealing with isolation, immigration challenges and the strain of caregiving. Conversations often include practical communication strategies and routines to reduce anxiety.

Sessions are conducted in English and Swahili and are aimed at helping people move toward clearer goals. Grace describes therapy as a partnership where she offers guidance, feedback and encouragement while clients lead their own recovery.

How Grace blends therapy approaches online

Client-centred therapy starts by placing the person’s priorities at the centre of each session. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients set their own goals and steps forward. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses practical exercises to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Grace will discuss what methods might help based on each person’s goals and preferences. She collaborates with clients to try ideas, adjust techniques and track what is improving over time.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the current session options before booking so you know what formats are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around school, work and family life, reduce travel time and allow check-ins that focus on short skills practice or longer therapeutic conversations. Appropriately qualified or registered professionals can use these methods effectively when they are adapted to a person’s everyday routine.