Dr. Rachel Grace, Psy.D.
Director, Teen DBT Program & Assessment Services
About Rachel Grace
Dr. Rachel A. Grace, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in complex trauma, adolescent emotion dysregulation, and emerging personality disorders. Her clinical work has focused on high-risk adolescents and young adults presenting with suicidality, non-suicidal self-injury, impulsivity, interpersonal instability, trauma-related symptoms, and diagnostically complex presentations across inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization, and outpatient settings.
Dr. Grace provides Dialectical Behavior Therapy through an attachment-focused lens, emphasizing symptom stabilization, healing caregiver-child relational patterns, improving emotion regulation and interpersonal skills, and developing insight into the function and meaning of symptoms within the family system.
She also has substantial expertise in psychological assessment, consultation, and program development. Dr. Grace designed and launched a specialized assessment clinic focused on early identification and intervention for adolescents with emerging personality-disorder features — work that earned her invited speaker status with the APA Compact Clinical Webinar Series. Her assessment model focuses on improving diagnostic clarity, reducing misdiagnosis, and connecting youth and families to appropriate treatment earlier in the course of illness to support better long-term outcomes.
In addition to her area of specialization, Dr. Grace has broad training in comprehensive psychological assessment, including socioemotional, cognitive, academic, neurodevelopmental, and diagnostic evaluations. She earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Regent University's APA-accredited program, completed her doctoral internship on the Child/Adolescent track at the University of Utah's Huntsman Mental Health Institute, and completed her postdoctoral fellowship on the Acute & Intensive Services track at Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters. She has also provided training and supervision in assessment administration, interpretation, integrated report writing, risk assessment, and developmentally informed case conceptualization.
At FRTC, Dr. Grace directs the Teen DBT Program, leads the assessment services line, and provides individual therapy and assessment for children, adolescents, and young adults.