Grace Sterling-Odom
Experienced counselor for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Grace
Grace Sterling-Odom is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey. She brings 27 years of experience to her work. She focuses on common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and issues around parenting and relationships.
Grace creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk honestly about what is troubling them. Grace uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage day-to-day problems and larger life transitions.
Background and approach
She helps clients name what is happening, learn new coping skills, and make small changes that add up over time. Sessions are conversational and grounded in real-world steps rather than jargon. Her background includes work with mood disorders, bipolar conditions, panic and phobic concerns, and obsessive-compulsive patterns.
She also addresses attachment difficulties, body image, and the emotional impact of divorce, separation, or infidelity. Grace supports those coping with grief, postpartum depression, and compassion fatigue. Communication and life purpose are common themes in her practice.
She assists people struggling with self-esteem, career decisions, impulsivity, and guilt or shame. Veteran and armed forces issues are also listed among her focus areas. Clients can expect a collaborative approach.
Grace listens first, then offers strategies tailored to each person’s situation. Her style blends practical coaching with therapeutic work to help people feel more capable in daily life.
Approaches and online support for everyday struggles
Grace uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach she uses helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more balanced thinking. This method is useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and negative self-talk. Another approach emphasizes building skills for emotion regulation and coping. It teaches breathing, pacing, and behavioral steps to reduce overwhelm and manage mood swings.Finding the right method is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose approaches that match their goals and comfort level. Together they review what helps and adjust strategies as progress is made, so the path fits the client's needs and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy lives. These options allow for flexible scheduling and consistent contact without travel. The range of formats supports different preferences, whether someone needs a quick check-in by text or a deeper conversation on video.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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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