Meet Grace Cirocco
Grace Cirocco is a life and relationship coach, a retreat creator and facilitator, a professional speaker, and the author of the HarperCollins best-selling classic Take the Step, the Bridge Will be There, published in several languages around the world.
She specializes in relationship intervention. Her Couples Weekend Intensive draws couples from across Canada and the United States, and has earned her a reputation with marriage therapists on both sides of the border, who regularly refer their most difficult cases directly to her.
Over 3,000 couples have now been through The Grace Fix, the intensive therapeutic weekend she created and still delivers herself in her hometown of Niagara-on-the-Lake. Hundreds credit the program with saving their marriage.
Her results come from a healing process she pioneered herself: Emotional Brain Therapy (EBT™), which helps couples work through trauma and negative emotion stored in the emotional part of the brain - long before university researchers confirmed that traditional talk therapy alone doesn't work well for couples.
Grace has been a "Dear Abby" figure her whole life - a natural at relationship intervention, mediation, and conflict resolution. As an empath, she reads people quickly, and her compassion is real. But she's also tough when toughness is what a situation calls for.
People are drawn to her directness, and her warmth wins over skeptics as easily as it does devoted fans.
Grace is impatient for change. Drawing on her knowledge of mental and emotional health alongside an integrated approach of traditional and non-traditional therapies, she has helped transform thousands of lives - her warmth and enchanting style catalyzing people into meaningful action, beckoning them to cross the river of change.
Her message, in the end, is simple: know yourself, live authentically and courageously, and heal the dark side to reach for the luminous places - not only within ourselves, but in one another.
Success Stories from Working with Grace
Your timing, sensitivity, knowledge, skills, and passion were amazing gifts to us all. I thank God that you have had the strength and self-knowledge to offer to the world what you were truly meant to do. What greater gift is there than your ability to love, to reflect love, to give love, to teach what love looks like, it's language...Your great big compassionate heart is nursing the world's handicapped hearts. Grace, you are my heart hero.
When I arrived at your women's retreat, I was feeling anxious about my break-up and returning to work. A day or two after getting home, my anxiety is almost gone! I feel calm and at peace. Before your program, I felt lost, alone and anxious. Now I feel I can handle life. I loved meeting and connecting with the other women at your retreat. It made me realize we all have pain but with your help, we can empower and heal ourselves.
Your Couple's Retreat went beyond any expectations we had. Your wisdom on handling our emotions as well as to how we respond to our partner is life changing. We are forever changed. It's like we have a new marriage. It was the best gift our relationship ever received. No amount of money is worth what you do Grace. You are our God sent Angel and we are so grateful to have found you. Thank you.
Formally trained. Endlessly curious.
Grace holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Philosophy from Queen's University at Kingston, and completed graduate studies in Ethics and Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. She's never stopped studying since - psychology, neuroscience, epigenetics, and neuroplasticity all inform how she works with clients today.
- BA (Hons) Philosophy - Queen's University
- Graduate studies, Ethics & Philosophy - University of Western Ontario
- Pioneer of Emotional Brain Therapy (EBT™)
- Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT / Tapping)
- EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing
- NLP - Neuro-Linguistic Programming & mind reframing
- Master Meditation Teacher - custom mindfulness practices for retreats and coaching
She practices what she teaches
Grace has been married to Santo D'Agostino, her university sweetheart, for 40 years - so she understands the trials and the triumphs of a long marriage firsthand, not just from the other side of a coaching table.
She's "Nonna" to her two grandsons, Amelio and Jackson, a mother to her own two adult children and their spouses, and a mentor and friend to countless young people who've found their way into her orbit over the years.
Take the next step with Grace
Whether it's a weekend retreat or private coaching, Grace will show up for you 110%!