About Grace
Grace Sterling-Odom is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with 27 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and grief. She also offers support for addictions, eating concerns, and career or life-purpose questions.
Grace aims to make the room feel open and nonjudgmental so clients can speak honestly. She helps people identify what matters to them and take practical steps toward change.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be straightforward and focused on concrete next steps rather than long therapy jargon. Her work includes support for those struggling with mood disorders, bipolar concerns, panic and phobias, and obsessive or compulsive patterns. She also addresses relationship strain, communication problems, infidelity, divorce and separation, and parenting stress.
Body image, guilt and shame, forgiveness, and compassion fatigue are other areas she regularly addresses. Grace combines broad clinical experience with a collaborative style. She listens carefully, asks clear questions, and helps build coping skills that fit daily life.
People who want direct guidance and practical tools often find her approach useful. She provides services in English and accepts international clients. Sessions can be arranged in formats that fit modern schedules and lifestyles, letting people connect in whichever way works best for them.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Grace uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people learn coping skills for anxiety and panic through gradual exposure and skill building. This method teaches step-by-step practices to reduce avoidance and regain confidence in everyday situations.Another frequently used approach targets mood disorders and depressive symptoms by identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors. It helps people shift routines and daily habits to lift mood and improve functioning. Both approaches are grounded in structured exercises and real-world practice rather than vague talk.
Choosing the right approach is a team process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels manageable. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls work well for in-depth weekly sessions, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows brief check-ins during a busy day, and text-based messaging supports ongoing coaching-style contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on progress and practical tools.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English