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Grace Quantock is an award-winning psychotherapeutic counsellor, speaker and author of Living Well With Chronic Illness: Write your own road map to healing in tough times (Orion Spring, 2024).
Awards include a Future Young Leader of Wales Award & multiple award winner of Great British Entrepreneur Awards. Grace has been nominated for Britain’s Top Real Role Model, Entrepreneur Wales Awards.
Grace has been featured in Marie Claire Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Hay Festival, Positive News, Gala Darling, TEDxAlyesbury, The Guardian, The Independent, The Metro, The Daily Mirror, The Sun and The Times of London.
Currently living – and thriving – with often debilitating illness, she is the real deal and knows, firsthand, the emotional and physical roller coaster that accompanies diagnosis and life struggle.
Based in the valleys of South Wales, Grace loves reading, calligraphy and early mornings. She firmly believes that life is meant to be celebrated, and has made it her mission to help others do just that… joyfully and on their own terms.
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Whose Voices, Which Land? and Alive At the End of the World (The Welsh Agenda, Institute of Welsh Affairs).
Review: An Open Door – New Travel Writing for a Precarious Century (The Nation Cymru)
Review of An Open Door: powerful & diverse essays about travel to & from Wales (Buzz Mag)
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Topics Grace Can Speak About In The Media
Chronic Illness Insights: Exploring daily life and challenges with chronic conditions.
Disabled Entrepreneurship: Navigating business ownership with adaptive strategies for success.
Accessible Mindful Movement and Meditation: Techniques for getting in touch with our body - especially when our bodies and minds have pain and trauma.
Emotional and Practical Support for the Serious Illness: How to effectively support loved ones through serious illnesses.
Navigating Complex Health Systems: A guide through the complexities of the National Health Service and other healthcare bureaucracies.
Disability Etiquette: Understanding and practising respectful communication and interaction.
Pre-Appointment Strategies for Medical Visits: How to prepare emotionally and practically for effective healthcare interactions.
Psychoeducation for Complex Trauma, Chronic Illness and Pain: Tools and techniques for managing psychological aspects of living with illness and pain.
Advocating for Inclusive Healthcare: Promoting changes in the healthcare system to better serve marginalized populations.
The Bootstrap Wellness Narrative: Critiquing and overcoming simplistic narratives around health and disability in mainstream wellness.
Media Bios
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Shorter Bio:
Grace Quantock is an award-winning anti-oppressive psychotherapeutic counsellor, writer, and advocate known for her work with marginalized individuals living with pain, illness, and trauma. She is the author of Living Well with Chronic Illness: Write your own road map to healing in tough times (Orion Spring, 2024).
Over the past 15 years, Grace has supported thousands through her therapeutic sessions, workshops, and writings, aimed at dismantling oppressive health narratives.
Featured in publications like The Guardian and The Times, and a recipient of The Curtis Brown Breakthrough Award,
Grace’s work continues to foster significant societal shifts. She is committed to helping her clients live well personally and collectively, advocating for a fairer world.
Longer Bio:
Grace Quantock is a recognised anti-oppressive psychotherapeutic counsellor, author, and advocate dedicated to supporting marginalized communities living with chronic pain, illness, and complex trauma.
Over the last 15 years, she has provided invaluable psychoeducation, therapeutic support, and advocacy, reaching thousands through workshops, courses, books, and one-on-one sessions.
Grace is an outspoken critic of the Bootstrap Wellness Narrative, challenging the harmful stereotypes that undermine the dignity of those she serves.
Her efforts aim to inspire change both on an individual level and across societal systems, empowering her clients to enact change in their lives and communities.
Grace's impactful work has been recognized in major publications like The Guardian, The New Statesman, and The Times, and she has earned accolades such as The Curtis Brown Breakthrough Award among others.
Grace's dedication to fostering a fairer world is mirrored by her client base of creative, socially committed individuals striving for personal and collective wellbeing.
Grace is the author of Living Well with Chronic Illness: Write your own road map to healing in tough times (Orion Spring, 2024).
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