- stress and anxiety
- relationship issues
- grief and loss
About Grace
Grace Sterling-Odom is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with 27 years of experience. She works with people who face stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, grief, and mood concerns. She also addresses issues like eating concerns, parenting stress, self-esteem, and career worries.
Grace focuses on helping people name their difficulties and take practical steps forward. She listens and helps clients talk through what gets in the way of change. Sessions tend to focus on clear goals and manageable actions rather than vague promises.
Her background includes long-term clinical work with a range of mood and behavior concerns. She has supported people coping with bipolar conditions, panic attacks, phobias, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and postpartum depression. She also assists with attachment and communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and issues that follow separation or infidelity.
Grace can discuss how life purpose, veteran and armed forces issues, and compassion fatigue affect daily functioning. She helps people weigh options, set boundaries, and practice new ways of responding in stressful situations. Her approach is practical and conversational, aimed at helping people build skills for real situations.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. The practice uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
How Grace uses therapeutic methods in online sessions
Grace works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear actions and symptom relief. One common approach helps people learn specific coping strategies for anxiety and panic attacks, such as paced breathing, exposure steps, and structured practice to reduce avoidance. Another common method focuses on changing unhelpful thinking patterns and daily behaviors to improve mood and reduce compulsive or impulsive reactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Grace discusses goals and preferences with each person and selects methods that fit those goals. That collaborative decision means techniques can be adjusted as progress is tracked and needs change.
The biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing sessions during a lunch break or after work. It can also allow shorter check-ins by phone when less bandwidth is needed, or video conversations when seeing facial cues matters. Grace accepts international clients, and practical session choices are discussed during the matching process to find what fits the client best.
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Experience
27+ years
Listed in
New Jersey
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship problems, grief, depression, eating concerns, self-esteem, and related mood issues like bipolar and panic.
What is her therapeutic style like?
The approach is practical and goal-focused, with conversations that identify problems and develop doable steps to try between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has 27 years of professional experience working with a wide range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
What credentials and location apply?
She is an LPC licensed in New Jersey and practices from that state.
Does she offer sessions in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are accepted; confirm any scheduling details before booking.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions are accessed via a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start a first session?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule the first session.