- Stress and anxiety
- Relationships and grief
- Addictions and mood
About Grace
Grace Sterling-Odom is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey with 27 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, handle grief and loss, and work through relationship concerns. She also addresses mood issues including depression and bipolar concerns, and supports people facing career stress, body image struggles, and parenting strain.
Grace uses straightforward conversation and practical skills in sessions. She encourages people to say what they are experiencing and to try small, manageable changes between meetings. Sessions focus on everyday problems like sleep disruption, panic spells, or trouble communicating with a partner. The therapist listens, asks direct questions, and suggests exercises clients can practice on their own.
Her work includes attention to attachment issues, guilt and shame, and the effects of trauma on relationships. She also helps with obsessive thoughts, compulsive behaviors, phobias, postpartum depression, and forgiveness after betrayal. Veterans and people connected to the armed forces are listed among areas she supports.
Grace aims to be practical about goals. She helps people break larger problems into smaller steps. That can mean building routines, rehearsing difficult conversations, or tracking moods to spot patterns. Progress is measured in concrete changes people can notice in daily life.
People who reach out should expect clear, task-focused sessions and guidance on next steps. Her approach is suited to adults working through early-adult pressures such as career uncertainty, relationship confusion, and managing new responsibilities.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online sessions
Grace draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and behaviors. One approach emphasizes identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce anxiety and depression; it teaches concrete coping strategies and homework exercises. Another approach targets patterns in relationships and attachment - it looks at how past relationships shape current reactions and practices new ways of relating that reduce conflict and isolation.Choosing the right method is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try approaches, and adjust methods based on what helps. That collaborative planning makes it easier to test practical tools and notice what changes are meaningful.
The profile does not list specific session formats, so confirm current online options before booking. Many people find that remote sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, skip travel time, or use shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. Online work still centers on setting clear goals, practicing skills between sessions, and tracking progress in daily life.
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Experience
27+ years
Listed in
New Jersey
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems can she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, grief, depression, eating concerns, parenting strain, self-esteem, career stress, bipolar and related mood concerns.
What is her general approach in sessions?
She uses plain conversation and practical skills, with direct questions and exercises to try between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 27 years of professional experience as an LPC in therapeutic settings.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey and practices from that state.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original profile does not list specific session formats. Confirm current session options before booking.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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