About Grace
Grace Sterling-Odom is a New Jersey Licensed Professional Counselor with 27 years of experience. She focuses on practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, depression, and relationship strain. Grace aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and real.
Grace creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what matters. She listens for patterns in mood, behavior, and relationships, then helps clients try clearer ways of responding.
How Grace works
Sessions emphasize straightforward skills and real-life experiments rather than jargon. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including eating issues, parenting strain, self-esteem, career questions, and bipolar mood concerns. She also addresses attachment issues, communication problems, infidelity, and the aftermath of separation or divorce.
Grace supports people coping with obsessional thoughts, panic attacks, phobias, and postpartum depression. People who come for help with life purpose, forgiveness, guilt, or compassion fatigue will find focused, goal-oriented conversations. She offers coaching-style support alongside therapeutic work when clients want clearer steps toward change.
Veteran and armed forces issues are also within her areas of focus. Grace works with a mix of short-term goals and longer-term healing plans. Her approach balances practical strategies with steady emotional support.
The aim is to help clients find daily ways to feel more in control and more like themselves again.
What Grace works with
The areas below are the ones Grace selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Evidence-based approaches adapted for online work
Grace often uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and practical change. One common approach emphasizes teaching coping strategies for anxiety and mood management, such as breath work, activity scheduling, and stepwise exposure to feared situations. These methods help reduce panic, worry, and avoidance over time.Another frequent focus is on behavior change and relapse prevention for people coping with addictions. This involves identifying risky patterns, building alternative routines, and planning for setbacks so clients can stay on track. For relationship and communication problems she works on concrete communication skills and problem-solving steps people can practice between sessions.
Choosing the right method is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people read nonverbal cues and do longer conversational work. Phone sessions can fit brief check-ins or low-bandwidth situations. Text and live chat support quick updates, homework review, or in-between-session coaching when a full session isn’t possible. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or travel schedules while still focusing on effective change.
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