About Dr. Cynthia Grace, Psy.D
Dr. Cynthia Grace, Psy.D
Dr. Cynthia Grace is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Certified Healing Codes Coach, educational seminar leader, motivational speaker, and advocate for organ donation. Dr. Grace specializes in supporting patients, caregivers, and others impacted by the journey of acute and chronic medical illness. Dr. Grace draws from a depth of personal history and a wealth of applied professional experience in addressing the unique and multifaceted needs of those suffering with physical illness.
Dr. Grace understands how to navigate the unavoidable challenges associated with business, insurance, and medical systems. Prior to earning her doctorate in psychology, Dr. Grace spent 28 years in marketing/management positions in several blue-chip organizations including Xerox Corporation, CB Commercial Real Estate, and Minnesota Life Insurance Company. In 1992, she was catapulted into a world of medical crisis with the birth of her second son, who suffered an unanticipated trauma during delivery. Within eight months she became her son’s kidney donor. Thereafter, she was on a steep learning curve as her son’s informal medical caregiver and advocate in multiple settings, such as Regional Center (RCEB), In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS), insurance companies, the school system, Department of Rehabilitation (DOR), Social Security Administration (SSDI & SSI), and more. The associated challenges with this life and death sequelae fueled her determination to make a positive difference in the world of medical illness for other patients and caregivers.
To accomplish this goal Dr. Grace ended her business career. She returned to school and earned her doctorate in clinical psychology, expanding her breadth of outreach to medical professionals, patients, caregivers, and others dealing with chronic and acute medical conditions, including but not limited to ALS, CFS, cancer, diabetes, and organ diseases that may lead to transplantation along with pre-and post- transplant challenges. Dr. Grace focuses her attention on body-mind treatment modalities, healing of grief and loss, and transcendence of physical suffering to whole person wellness – body, mind, emotion, and spirit. In 2019 she initiated studies to become a Certified Healing Codes Coach and today she combines the credentialed knowledge of each in her work. Dr. Grace additionally delivers and facilitates workshops and seminars, and is a motivational speaker, building public awareness of the need for organ donation in the world of transplantation.
Her Published Work
The Second-Chance Self: Transformation as The Gift of Life for Maternal Caregivers of Transplant Children
The Second Chance Self: A Journey of Endless Beginnings
Research studies have shown that caregivers and medical patients are often traumatized by the experience of illness, as well as the medical treatments that are received.
Dr. Grace’s research corroborates the data; however, her findings, based on first-hand accounts of patients and caregivers, reveal that personal growth, spiritual healing, and transformation are also possible.
Through Dr. Grace’s personal journey, professional training, and ceaseless effort, she assists others on their journey to find a silver lining of hope, meaning, and renewal, that might inspire them to also find, a second chance self.