Become your most authentic self, centered, grounded - connected to your voice.

Find purpose for your life and make the relationships you want

Our Services

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Meet Grace

Hello!

I can be with you in your feelings of confusion, loss, hopelessness, anger and despair. I value your desire for growth, to heal, to find love and self fulfillment in your life.

In those values, I found my place in the Person-Centered Approach, the work of Carl R. Rogers, noted American psychologist of the 20th century. I am a person centered psychotherapist.

Together we will make a relationship to explore what is hurting, to connect with your feelings, find your voice and make the life and relationships you want.

The Center for Human Encouragement is a place of privacy, comfort, warmth, and beauty, a place of healing, connection and growth.

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Why choose the
Center for Human Encouragement?

At my practice the Center for Human Encouragement I use the Human-Centered Psychotherapy approach to create a relationship with my clients. I invite you to share with me why you have come. I listen carefully and respond with empathy and respect.

My focuses and areas of expertise in therapy are:

  • Connecting with your feelings

  • Finding your voice

  • Navigating grief and loss

  • Couple and Relationships

  • Trauma Informed Care

  • Connecting with others


The need for connection with others in authentic ways is the most deeply felt human need. Once we experience that, we are able to give it to others, like in small ways, responding to a child who is hurting in the moment. We are also able to choose relationships with others who are capable of that kind of connection and intimacy, enriching our lives and theirs.


I believe it is up to us, individually and collectively to Create the life we want.

  • “I have been seeing Grace for 4 years but I wish I had been in counseling with her 20 years ago! She has helped me clarify exactly how I feel and has helped me to learn how to express that clarity to others, especially the ones I love most. Her ability to listen deeply without judgment and her unwavering support and guidance have changed the direction of my life to a much more healthier one!"

    Grace does not assume that she has the answers I am looking for. Her strength is in gently assisting me along the process, validating my feelings as we go along together and recognizing the areas in which I get stuck. Grace can easily recognize pain. She provides a safe therapeutic environment for its expression.

    Working with Grace has helped me to resolve old childhood wounds, improve my relationships within my immediate family and align my heart with my head.”

    -Female Client of 4 years

  • “Very simply, Grace is a gift. Everyone should be fortunate enough to find a caretaker for their minds like her. Walking into her space gives me a sense of calm and peace. She and her environment are warm, welcoming, and comforting, making me feel very safe just being there.

    She has helped me to find my way through a difficult professional situation that was affecting my personal life. She did this by listening fully and genuinely to my feelings and provided timely, thoughtful advice. She has been positively influenced by her wide breadth of life experience and high level of intelligence. She is able to call on her own background to find pieces of wisdom that help her clients.

    In both a verbal and non-verbal way, Grace conveys sincere non-judgmental interest in everything I share. Her genuine curiosity has helped me to get to the next step.”

    -Female client with professional life issue

  • It is difficult to describe such exploration of self, personal process without including personal details. Instead, I’d like to share where I am presently. I live by myself doing work that is important to me. The emotional weight I carried for nearly three decades (though not gone) is much easier to carry with the help of the understanding and validation I gained through the work Grace and I did. I don’t feel depressed in my day-to-day life, and I am able to let myself feel my emotional responses to events in my life without being overwhelmed by them. I have a happy and healthy romantic relationship, and I am able to pursue the goals I have set for myself without the burden of a constant unknowable malaise. I am able to be more and more present in the moment rather than be caught in the past or overwhelmingly concerned about the potential future. I love myself, and in doing so have been able to love others more acutely and genuinely. I strive for authenticity and feel confident in my continued exploration of my mind. I am safe, I am self-reliant, I am confident and I wouldn’t be the human I am today without Dr. Grace Harlow Klein.

    - Male Client of more than 5 years

  • “After being introduced to Grace through a mutual friend, I have worked with her for over 2 years. Even during our very first meeting, I found her to possess a comforting presence that immediately evoked a feeling of comfort in me which has remained throughout our relationship.

    Grace’s ‘no lose’ attitude has helped me to see a multitude of alternate options to any difficult situations I have faced. She has helped me to plan to be successful and realize that there is always a way to figure things out.

    All good leaders have the ability to maintain a sense of calm in times of crisis. Grace’s unshakeable, patient demeanor and complete faith in me has given me the confidence to carry on through my personal challenges and to see them as opportunities for growth.”

    -Male client of 2 years

  • “Grace's style is as non-threatening as walking through a rose garden, discovering colors, textures and fragrances; not to say that the discovery or awakening process cannot be intense. Her style exudes wisdom, patience, strength and timing. Her listening skills adroitly function simultaneously on multiple levels. She hears what I hear myself saying, and she hears what I have no idea I just said. Then, when the timing is right, she takes me to the next place she wants me to see. Her approach is a journey of compassion, understanding, wisdom, and self-realization.

    - Male Client of 14 Years

  • “After having met Grace almost 20 years go when I was her student in the nursing program, I inquired if she could help me as a client. I had never dealt with issues of childhood abuse but with my high degree of trust in Grace, I felt she could work with me to start my healing process. Her use of Carl Rogers modalities focusing on love, support, caring, and listening were perfect for me and she gave me a chance to start being a whole person even at the age of 50! In a nutshell, Grace Harlow Klein saved my life.”

    -Female client for almost 2 decades

  • “Going to Grace for couples counseling has helped solidify our marriage. She has taught us how to work things out as a couple and shown us how to navigate issues as a united team. Each day I love my husband more and more and I know Grace’s guidance has a great deal to do with that.”

    -Female client seeing Grace in couples therapy for 5 year


  • I have been seeing Grace over a period of about fourteen years. Perhaps more than anything, she has helped me find and release the person I locked away in solitary many years ago. The cell was located in a place I could not have found on my own had I even realized it existed. Most incredibly, she has so patiently worked at reintroducing me to that person, the one I longed to know without knowing he existed. 

    Grace is not the kind of person one wants to miss knowing. Certainly she is one of the finest human beings I have known. Integral, compassionate, empathic, intellectually brilliant, transparent, patient, persevering, and creative are some of the adjectives that first come to mind. It is precisely because of these and similar personality traits that Grace is such an effective therapist.

    -Male client of 14 years

Our Approach

What is “Person Centered” Therapy

Person Centered Psychotherapy is a process of growth facilitated in a relationship between the therapist and client. Based on empathy and presence in the therapist with respect and positive regard for the client, you direct us to what is hurting in your life, what you want to explore and resolve.

Carl Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology. Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association in 1956.

The person-centered approach, his own unique approach to understanding personality and human relationships, found wide application in various domains such as psychotherapy and counseling (client-centered therapy), education (student-centered learning), organizations, and other group settings. For his professional work he was bestowed the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Psychology by the APA in 1972. Towards the end of his life Carl Rogers was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with national intergroup conflict in South Africa and Northern Ireland.[1] In an empirical study by Haggbloom et al. (2002) using six criteria such as citations and recognition, Rogers was found to be the sixth most eminent psychologist of the 20th century and second, among clinicians, only to Sigmund Freud.[2] Follow this link for more from Wikipedia.

In the last decade of his life, using the same principles of his earlier work, Carl Rogers concentrated on conflict resolution, diversity and peace in Russia, South Africa, Ireland and Central America toward a vision of world peace.

He was nominated for Time's Man of the Century in 2000 and for the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1987 (He died prior to the decision and therefore was not considered).

-Gay Swenson Barfield (Former director Carl Rogers Institute for Peace)

Book cover titled 'On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy' by Carl R. Rogers, M.D., with a beige background, a small photo of a hand holding a pen, and text in various fonts and colors.
Book cover titled "A Way of Being" by Carl R. Rogers, featuring a blurred image of a person walking down a path at sunset.
Three people standing together inside a room, smiling at the camera. The man on the left has dark hair and a beard, wearing a light-colored blazer, shirt, and tie. The man in the middle is elderly with glasses and a bald head, wearing a white shirt. The woman on the right has curly dark hair and is dressed in a pink and purple patterned outfit with a string of pearls.

“Life isn’t about finding ourselves, it’s about creating ourselves”

- George Bernard Shaw

If your life isn’t working, or you have lost touch with parts of yourself, leaving you feeling anxious, confused, depressed or lonely, I can help you.

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