About Grace
Grace Sterling-Odom is a licensed professional counselor who brings 27 years of experience to her work. She practices in New Jersey and helps people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, addictions, and grief. Grace aims to make beginning therapy straightforward and approachable for people who are nervous about the first step.
Grace creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can say what they really think and feel. She listens for patterns that get in the way of daily life, then helps clients try practical ways to change those habits.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, realistic steps that build confidence over time. Her work covers relationship strain, parenting stress, body image and eating concerns, and career or life-purpose questions. She also supports people facing obsessive thoughts, panic attacks, bipolar mood concerns, postpartum depression, and compassion fatigue.
Grace addresses forgiveness, guilt, communication problems, and issues that come up after separation or infidelity. Clients can expect a steady, collaborative approach that balances emotional support with clear goals. Grace draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person.
She welcomes conversations about what people hope to get from therapy and adjusts the pace to match their comfort level. Grace offers sessions using video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She works with English-speaking clients and accepts international clients as well.
Her aim is to help people find manageable ways to reduce anxiety and move toward a more satisfying life.
Evidence-based methods and flexible online care
Grace uses straightforward, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage anxiety and stress. Cognitive approaches focus on noticing unhelpful thought patterns and practicing new ways of thinking that reduce anxiety and panic. Behavioral strategies emphasize gradual exposure and practical habit changes to lessen avoidance, compulsions, and panic symptoms, helping people regain confidence in daily activities.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up in daily life. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow quick updates, brief coaching between sessions, or ongoing support without scheduling a full call. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, family, and travel while still allowing steady, goal-focused care.
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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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