About Grace
Grace Sterling-Odom is a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than 27 years of clinical experience working in New Jersey. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, and navigate grief and loss. Grace emphasizes a calm, nonjudgmental tone to make it easier to talk about hard things.
Grace guides conversations that help clients understand what they are feeling and why. She helps people set clear, realistic goals and tries to make each session feel practical and focused.
Background and approach
The work often includes learning everyday skills for managing panic, low mood, or overwhelming thoughts. She also supports people facing relationship strain, body image concerns, and issues around parenting or career direction. Additional areas of focus include mood disorders, obsessive thoughts and compulsions, postpartum depression, and phobias.
Grace pays attention to how attachment patterns and communication habits affect current problems. Her approach aims to empower clients to make steady change at their own pace. Sessions look at small steps that build toward bigger shifts, and Grace offers coaching-style guidance when useful.
She works in a straightforward, compassionate way and helps clients track progress over time. Grace practices as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - in New Jersey. She offers help in English and works with international clients through online formats when needed.
Approaches and online options for practical change
Grace uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on helping people change unhelpful patterns and manage intense emotions. One common approach involves teaching practical coping skills for anxiety and panic so people can reduce symptoms and regain control of daily tasks. Another approach centers on addressing obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors by learning new responses and routines that break unhelpful cycles.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Grace works with each person to identify goals, try methods that match their needs, and adjust the plan if something is not working. She emphasizes clear goals, regular review, and practical homework between sessions when helpful.
Online therapy with Grace is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler way to connect when bandwidth or cameras are limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when people prefer written communication. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity when travel or relocation occurs.
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What this therapist 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
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