• Press Kit for Grace Harlow Klein

  • Grace Harlow Klein, PhD

    Contact information:

    The Center for Human Encouragement

    15 Arnold Park, Rochester, NY 14607

    585-473-2733

    www.graceharlowklein.com

    grace@graceharlowklein.com

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    Short Bio:

    Dr. Grace Harlow Klein sees the power of caring in healing. She practices psychotherapy from the person centered approach that she learned from the esteemed Carl Rogers over forty years ago. Grace is respectful, empathic and deeply touched by the drive for growth in her clients, the efforts they engage in to heal, and the passion they have for creating a life filled with joy, health and contentment.

    Grace met her husband, Armin Klein, a gifted psychotherapist, at the First International Forum on the Person-Centered Approach in Mexico in 1982. Armin and Grace shared a dream for the Center for Human Encouragement – a place of healing, connection, and community they made in their home and for their psychotherapy practice, which Grace continues today. It is a grand location for holding workshops and provides a place of beauty which Grace believes is a form of human encouragement.

    An accomplished gardener, artist, writer and photographer, Grace embraces creativity as an avenue to find and express her voice, leading her from loss to healing and new life. All of Grace’s six books include her photography and art making each one a memorial that growth and healing are possible.

    Long Bio:

    Grace Harlow Klein knows the encounters that changed her life and the people who added love, connection, awareness, growth, meaning and expansion to her world. She brings all of those experiences to her relationships with her psychotherapy clients.

    Dr. Klein sees the power of caring in healing. She practices psychotherapy from the person centered approach that she learned from the esteemed Carl Rogers over forty years ago. Grace is respectful, empathic and deeply touched by the drive for growth in her clients, the efforts they engage in to heal, and the passion they have for creating a life filled with joy, health and contentment.

    Persistent in her own drive for growth and to make a difference in people’s lives, Grace’s first career began as a nurse. She found her passion as a community health nurse working with diverse cultures. Grace became a university professor of nursing with a deep commitment to students’ learning and growth, ultimately becoming the Dean of two schools of nursing. Her time in academia provides useful experience in the complexities of vision, university life and organizational dynamics.

    Grace met her husband, Armin Klein, a gifted psychotherapist, at the First International Forum on the Person-Centered Approach in Mexico in 1982. They made a wonderful life together – loving, practicing psychotherapy, traveling and teaching. Grace and Armin remained a part of the person-centered community, attending meetings and presenting in various countries over the years. Grace is clear that loving and being loved by Armin was the greatest gift of her life. She understands the gifts of love and connection and the challenges of a successful relationship which she brings to her clients who are couples. Together she and Armin enjoyed being parents and grandparents to their six adult children and ten grandchildren.

    Armin and Grace shared a dream for the Center for Human Encouragement – a place of healing, connection, and community they made in their home and for their psychotherapy practice, which Grace continues today. It is a grand location for holding workshops and provides a place of beauty which Grace believes is a form of human encouragement.

    An accomplished gardener, artist, writer and photographer, Grace embraces creativity as an avenue to find and express her voice, leading her from loss to healing and new life. All of Grace’s six books include her photography and art making each one a memorial that growth and healing are possible.

    Speaker Bio:

    Dr. Grace Harlow Klein is a practicing psychotherapist at the Center for Human Encouragement, that she co-founded with her late husband, Armin Klein. Grace knows the power of caring in healing. She is respectful, empathic and deeply touched by the drive for growth in her clients, the efforts they engage in to heal, and the passion they have for creating a life filled with joy, health and contentment.

    An accomplished gardener, artist, photographer and writer, Dr. Klein is the author of six books. She currently spends her time supporting clients, hosting workshops, writing, gardening and creating art.

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    Interview Questions:

    1. What would you like people to know about you as a psychotherapist?
    2. What happens when someone comes to see you for therapy?
    3. Why do people come for therapy?
    4. What can you do that helps them?
    5. How am I different than others in a room of therapists?
    6. Can you share about the Center for Human Encouragement?
    7. You are an accomplished author, how many books have you written?
    8. You use your creativity to help yourself heal. How has that taken form?

    Books:

    The Colors of Grief

    The depth of grief directly correlates to the intensity of love felt between two people. The stronger and deeper the love, the darker and more devastating the grief. Grace Harlow Klein understands that all too well. As a psychotherapist for 15+ years to recovering from her own tremendous grief walk following the death of her husband, Armin Klein, Grace shares her very unique perspective about love, loss and grief. If you are experiencing grief in your life, The Colors of Grief will be a beautiful way to start your journey to recovery with Grace as your guide.

    Kaleidoscope

    “In Kaleidoscope, Grace Harlow Klein shares the moments of her life that have fashioned the creation of her sense of self. Like a kaleidoscope, pieces of broken glass converge to provide the viewer with a cascade of colors and images, always changing and unique to the viewer.

    Grace Harlow Klein’s life events are expressed in prose, photographs and her art. Together the convergence of these expressions invited me, as I hope they do for you, to enter into her experiences with feelings of loss, grief and hope. Relationships, life events and the journeys of discovery are shared and when put together create a kaleidoscope of her world view.

    I invite you to examine the pieces of your life that when put together create the beauty and wonder that abide within you, like a kaleidoscope!”

    Thomas w. Connelly, Jr. Ph.D., RN

    Transition: The Space Between

    “In the most unfettered expression, Grace Harlow Klein envelopes the reader in the depths of her loves, agony, loss, frustrations and personal growth. Her emergence from the mud and clay with strength, clarity, hope, conviction, direction and purpose is testimony once again that greatness is born out of our most darkest hours.”

    Nomvuyo Mahlangu Ph.D., RN

    Loss: A Personal Journey of Empowerment

    “In the most unfettered expression, Grace Harlow Klein envelopes the reader in the depths of her loves, agony, loss, frustrations and personal growth. Her emergence from the mud and clay with strength, clarify, hope, conviction, direction and purpose is testimony once again that greatness is born out of our most darkest hours.”

    Nomvuyo Mahlangu Ph.D., RN

    Bridge of Returning: An Empowering Journey

    “In a touching family remembrance, Grace adeptly balances life and death. Finding her voice, she illuminates how both kind and piercing, provincial and transcendent, damaging and empowering the experience of loss can be. The journey demonstrates how her life-long practice of empathy and courage for others as a nurse, psychotherapist, educator, and dean powerfully evokes the intimate nature of not only her own, but indeed all of our lives’ loves and losses. She somehow manages to trail blaze and offer a glacial poignance through the experience of both life and death.”     ~  Jeffrey H. D. Cornelius-White, PsyD, LPC

    Remembering Junie

    Junie, a beloved yellow lab, is remembered in Grace’s first book of poetry and photographs. From birth to death, he was a remarkable dog and companion for Armin and Grace. Enjoy this tribute and remember your own loved dogs.

    Fun Facts About Grace:

    1. Grace has a yellow lab named Junie. He is actually the Third Junie since getting labs long ago. He is a greet for her clients and a good therapy dog.
    2. Grace was once the Academic Dean of Nursing at Medical College of Ohio.
    3. The third floor of The Center for Human Encouragement has been turned into an art studio/office for Grace.
    4. Grace is an avid gardener with lovely gardens and pots on the grounds of the Center for Human Encouragement.
    5. Grace has attended and spoken at person-centered forums around the world.