Our internship program is a 501c3 nonprofit
Therapy is for everyone.
Here at Grace Therapy & Wellness Center, we believe in providing an educationally and financially supportive environment for interns. We pay our interns a stipend for educational expenses that they may incur throughout their internship. Our Clinicians see clients for a lower fee or through our accepted insurances, including the Medicaid MCO plans BCBS Community, CountyCare, Meridian, and Molina. These interns participate in writing, social media, and marketing, and answer our intake line. These students help us in our mission of providing affordable therapy to anyone who wants it.
Internship Stipend
Client Therapy Fund
Nonprofit Interns
Internship program applications open for Winter 2027!
Board Members
President
Dr. Grace Martin
Dr. Grace Martin, LMFT, is the founder and President of Grace Therapy and Wellness Center’s nonprofit. She opened her solo practice in 2018 and grew it into a social justice focused group private practice, creating the nonprofit arm in 2021. Dr. Grace earned her Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy from The Family Institute at Northwestern University in 2014, became an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, and spent five years in community mental health at C4, where receiving NHSC loan repayment inspired her to pursue loan forgiveness for her own clinicians. She has been on the board of the Phoenix Clinic, a low-cost therapy nonprofit in Chicago, and the Mental Health Call and Response Task Force of Oak Park advocating for police reform. She received her PhD in Couple and Family Therapy from Adler University and became an AASECT Certified Sex therapist in 2025, and is currently writing a sex therapy textbook.
Chief Financial Officer
Scott Norberg
Scott Norberg, JD has been a law professor, administrator, researcher, and author for over 30 years. He is the founding Associate Dean of FIU Law School in Miami, FL, where he still teaches. The recipient of several awards, including the Florida International University Excellence in Teaching Award, he instructs in the areas of contract, commercial and bankruptcy law. He has published numerous articles, many appearing in peer-reviewed law journals, and has been frequently cited by commentators and courts, including the United States Supreme Court. Known for remembering the names of all of his numerous students, Scott has a passion for education and the people seeking it. He brings his years of legal expertise, financial knowledge, and care for people to his position as the CFO of Grace Therapy and Wellness Center’s nonprofit board.
Andrea Santiago
Andrea Santiago, LCPC, NCC, is the co-owner and Clinical Director of Gemstone Wellness in Chicago, where she draws on 14 years of experience in mental health. A bilingual Puerto Rican Latina raised by a single mother, Andrea works with adolescents and adults on grief, life transitions, identity, anxiety, trauma, and stress, and provides immigration psychological evaluations for hardship, VAWA, asylum, U-Visa, and T-Visa cases. Her practice is grounded in a commitment to social justice and antiracist care. Before Gemstone, she worked in outpatient therapy, mobile crisis response for children and teens, and family therapy, and she continues to supervise and train other clinicians. Outside the office she sings and plays in a Chicago indie pop-rock band, writes and records her own music, and enjoys exploring the city’s food scene.
Joyce Stokes
I have over 20 years of experience in Human Resources. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I’ve worked for Fortune 500 companies in a variety of positions including training and development, and employee relations. I currently build leadership competence and confidence as a strategic partner at the world’s most admired company, Apple, Inc. (Fortune, 2022). I am an active philanthropist who supports Alabama Appleseed, The Fistula Foundation and the Equal Justice Initiative. In my spare time I enjoy listening to podcasts and my current favorite is “Where Should We Begin and The Daily. I was born in Chicago and currently reside in Miami with my life partner, 11 year old son, and French Bulldog, Scout.
Johanna Winter-Harper
Johanna Winter-Harper, LMFT, LPC, is the owner of Ochre Psychotherapy in Chicago, where she provides individual and relational therapy and clinical supervision. A former Grace Therapy and Wellness Center clinician and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, she is EMDR-trained and practices from systemic, experiential, somatic, and emotion-focused perspectives. Johanna is neurodivergent and LGBTQIA+ affirming and works with individuals of all ages, relationships of all configurations, and families of all varieties, with a particular focus on neurodivergence, relationships, grief, life transitions, and self-compassion. Her collaborative approach helps clients move from survival patterns toward secure, authentic connection with themselves and others, and build new patterns within their relationships, families, gender, work, and culture.
Maia Easley
Maia Easley is the Founder of Bare Conversations and a Licensed Couple and Family Therapist, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, and holds her PhD in Clinical Sexology. With training from Spelman College and Adler University, Maia’s work centers advocacy, cultural responsiveness, and dismantling stigma around sex, identity, and relationships—particularly within Black, Brown, and marginalized communities. She is deeply committed to increasing access to affirming, evidence-based mental and sexual health care and creating spaces rooted in safety, visibility, and empowerment. Maia brings a systems-focused, justice-oriented lens to her work, supporting healing, education, and meaningful community transformation.