Affirming grief therapy for adults in Georgia (Offered Remotely)

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Grief Therapy for Adults in Georgia

There’s no right way to grieve. You don’t have to move on. You don’t have to carry it alone.

At The Counseling Zebra, we offer grief therapy that acknowledges the complexity of loss and the various ways it manifests in our lives. Whether your grief is fresh or decades old, named or unnamed, loud or quiet, we hold space for it with gentleness and respect.

We support adults across Georgia with virtual therapy that centers your truth and your process.
No timeline. No clichΓ©s. No β€œsilver linings.” Just care that meets you where you are.

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Who We Work With

We support people navigating:

We support adults who are grieving a death, a breakup, a trauma, a diagnosis, a shift in identity, or something they never had the words for.
We work with people navigating grief related to family estrangement, infertility, parenthood, disability, coming out, chronic illness, and more.
We support those grieving in the aftermath of injustice, medical harm, systemic violence, and disconnection from community, culture, or belonging.

We work with folks who:

  • Feel like their grief doesn’t β€œcount” or isn’t valid

  • Are overwhelmed, shut down, or going through the motions

  • Are carrying grief layered with trauma, shame, or guilt

  • Have been told to β€œmove on” and can’tβ€”or don’t want to

  • Are wondering who they are now, or how to keep going

  • Want to feel connected to their grief in ways that honor their values, identity, and truth

  • Want therapy that can hold both sorrow and joy, pain and beauty, uncertainty and peace

You don’t need to explain or justify your grief to be here.
Whatever your storyβ€”you’re welcome.

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Grief can come from losing someone you loveβ€”or someone who didn’t love you the way you needed.
It can come from endings, ruptures, transitions, medical trauma, identity shifts, or the loss of a future you were counting on.
It can be tied to family estrangement, chronic illness, miscarriage, disability, moving, religious trauma, or transition.
It can come from the long ache of never having what you needed in the first place.

Grief isn’t always about death.
It’s about disconnection, meaning, longing, love, and the ways we are forever changed by what we’ve lost.

And the world doesn’t always make space for that. Especially if you’re a person of the global majority, neurodivergent, queer, disabled, chronically ill, or carry marginalized identities that are often expected to "be strong" and keep going.

Grief Isn’t Just One Thing

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What Grief Therapy Can Look Like

There’s no one way to grieve.
And there’s no one way we’ll approach this together.

Grief therapy might include:

  • Naming and honoring your lossesβ€”whether they’re visible, invisible, disenfranchised, or complicated

  • Holding space for sorrow, rage, numbness, relief, confusion, or gratitude

  • Exploring the ways grief shows up in your body, routines, relationships, and nervous system

  • Processing the non-linear waves of griefβ€”especially when they don't make "sense"

  • Reclaiming ritual, memory, story, and agency around what was and what is

  • Making room for grief that doesn’t endβ€”and for the possibility of still building a life around it

  • Supporting you through anniversaries, transitions, family strain, and collective grief

We move at your pace.
You don’t have to talk about everything all at once.
You don’t have to be okay. You just have to be you.

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We don’t push for closure or follow a rigid model.
We believe grief deserves care that is nuanced, trauma-informed, and identity-affirming.

Our approach is rooted in:

  • Autonomy & Consent – You guide the pace, depth, and direction.

  • Anti-pathologizing care – We don’t treat grief as a problem to fix. We treat it as something sacred to honor.

  • Embodiment & nervous system support – We explore how grief lives in the body and how to gently hold it.

  • Creative processing – Through art, metaphor, ritual, or quiet, we make space for the unspoken

  • Relational safety – You won’t be rushed or asked to make your grief more palatable

  • Cultural humility & trauma awareness – We understand how grief is shaped by systems, identity, and intergenerational pain

We Hold Space For:

  • Sudden and anticipated loss

  • Complicated and disenfranchised grief

  • Chronic sorrow and ambiguous grief

  • Medical and reproductive grief

  • Grief tied to trauma, shame, or identity

  • Grieving relationships that were harmful, abusive, or estranged

  • Grief related to oppression, disconnection, or systemic harm

  • And the quiet, everyday ache that’s hard to nameβ€”but always there

There is no timeline.
There is no β€œright” way to feel.
There is no expectation to be β€œover it.”

Your grief deserves room to breathe.

Our Approach to Grief Therapy

Whether you’re in Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, Athens, Macon, Columbus, or a rural Georgia communityβ€”our remote therapy sessions make it easy to access compassionate care from the comfort and privacy of your home. All you need is a quiet space and a secure internet connection. We use HIPAA-compliant platforms to ensure your sessions are safe, confidential, and convenient.

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What You Won’t Get Here

❌ No timelines or pressure to β€œmove on”
❌ No toxic positivity or silver-lining your pain
❌ No minimizing, spiritual bypassing, or clinical detachment
❌ No assumptions about who or what you’ve lost
❌ No pressure to package your grief into something neat and resolved

You don’t have to be doing better to be supported.
You don’t have to make your grief make sense.

πŸ–₯️ Fully virtual, for adults anywhere in Georgia
πŸ“† Flexible, gentle, and adaptive scheduling
🌈 Affirming of all identities, bodies, beliefs, and grief expressions
πŸ«‚ Cry-safe and silence-allowed

You can show up in your griefβ€”disoriented, numb, overwhelmed, still, furious, undone.
We will hold space for all of it.

You don’t have to carry this alone anymore.
We’re here when you’re ready.

Our Services Are

Use the calendar below to schedule a free 15 minute consultation call with the therapist you would like to work with or you can contact us through the contact form for help scheduling a free 15 minute consultation call!

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