Grief Therapy in Atlanta, Georgia

Grief Therapy – Compassionate Counseling in Atlanta, GA

Discover peace following loss with Stephanie Thom, LPC through customized grief counseling.
Among the most potent emotional events a person can go through is grief. Grief can affect any aspect of your life—emotionally, spiritually, and physically—regardless of the loss of a loved one, divorce, adjusting to a significant life change, or emptiness of unmet expectations.

Healing from loss is not about “moving on,” at Restore Counseling Therapist grief therapy. It’s about learning how to compassionately and with assistance negotiate your suffering. Under the direction of Licensed Professional Counselor Stephanie Thom, LPC, our office provides a secure, supportive environment in Atlanta, GA where you may start to find emotional stability, peace, and direction.

Introducing Atlanta's LPC – Christian Grief Counselor Stephanie Thom

Stephanie Thom blends professional therapeutic knowledge with a compassionate, faith-based approach having over a decade of counseling experience and a deep vocation to help people through their most difficult seasons. Her work is focused on the conviction that God can gracefully gently restabilize us in our loss. Healing is possible.

Stephanie helps people, couples, and families to:

Manage complex loss
Sort life following the death of a loved one
Manage terminal sickness and anticipatory grief
Control loss related to divorce, infertility, or a chronic illness
After tragedy, reconstruct hope and identity

Why Do You Want Grief Therapy?

Though it can feel isolated, grief does not have to be experienced by anyone alone. Though many people feel pressure to “be strong, “move on,” or “get over it,” sorrow does not follow a schedule and it does not look the same for everyone.

One could be experiencing:

Unbelievably depressed or hopeless
Guilt or remorse about unaddressed problems
Anxiety, panic, or a numbing feeling
Weariness or physical symptoms including headaches or problems sleeping

Spiritual Crisis or Lost Direction

Therapy can help you make sense of your experience, lessen emotional pain, and rebuild your life—not by forgetting your loved one or your loss but by including it into a new chapter with meaning, support, and strength.

Our Method for Grieving Counseling

At Restore Counseling Therapist, we approach client-centered compassionately. Your narrative is special, and your healing journey will be also.

Customized Help

We start with your current location. Whether your loss is new or decades past, we will help you to define what it means to you and how it is affecting your emotional, physical, and spiritual life.

Integration of Christian faith

For those who want it, we provide Christian grief counseling honoring your values and looking at how faith could assist in the healing process. God, we think, is near the brokenhearted and can offer through every season solace, peace, and direction.

Evidence-Based Methods

Stephanie bases her work on techniques including:

Mindfulness and relaxation techniques
Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT)
Therapy with Narratives
Solution-Focused Therapy
Trauma-Based Care

Our goal is to equip you with useful tools to control daily life, negotiate your emotions, and recover hope and clarity.

Our Contributions: What With Regard

Our grief counseling therapy address a spectrum of losses and emotional difficulties:

Losing a loved one

From disease, accident, suicide, or natural causes, the death of someone dear can disturb any aspect of your life. We support your honor of the relationship, processing of the grief, and negotiating life following loss.

Anticipatory Empathy

Should a loved one be diagnosed with a terminal illness, you could be in mourning long before the death. Through the anxiety, depression, and uncertainty of anticipating loss, therapy can help you.

Infertility, miscarriage, and child loss

Many often, these quiet losses are invisible. At Restore, we provide parents negotiating the loss of a pregnancy or infertility a sensitive and compassionate environment.

Divorce, Separation, and Breakdowns

Not all loss centers on death. A relationship lost can cause great grief, uncertainty, and emotions of failure or rejection. We assist in your rebuilding of your identity and pain management.

Job Loss, Retirement, or Change of Life

Significant life events include job loss, retirement, or empty nester hood can cause unanticipated pain. Counseling guides you in adaptation, introspection, and forward intentional movement.

Expectations for Your First Session

Your first session offers an opportunity to meet each other, tell your story, and start developing trust. Stephanie will probe your background, the nature of your loss, and how grief is manifesting in your life now.

You will look at treatment goals and talk about how the counseling process could help with your healing. Sessions are at your own speed, always confidential, free of judgment.

Therapy for All Grief Stages

The five phases of grief— denial, anger, bargaining, sadness, and acceptance—have probably come across in your life. Still, loss is hardly a straight line. You could feel several things at once or go in and out of stages. That’s ordinary.

Whether your role is:

Overburdened by recent death
Years later struggling with “stuck” loss
Suddenly feeling strong surges of passion
Thinking about if your loss is “normal”

Here we are to walk next to you. You are not going through it by yourself.

Start Your Trip of Healing Right Now

You are not carrying your loss by yourself. Though even here there is hope.

At Restore Counseling Therapist, we hold that religion, compassion, and connection all help one to heal. We are here to help you go forward toward emotional healing and tranquility when ready.

Frequently Asked Questions

What types of loss do you support in grief therapy?

We help people dealing with many kinds of loss—including the death of a loved one, miscarriage, infertility, divorce, breakups, chronic illness, and significant life events like job loss or retirement. Grief can manifest itself in various ways and all are legitimate; it is not confined to death.

Is Christian faith required to receive counseling here?

Not at all. Although for those who desire it we do provide a Christian faith-based approach, but we welcome people from all backgrounds and faiths. Our aim is to be with you where you are, show empathy, understanding, and individualized support.

Are sessions of virtual grief treatment available?

Indeed, we offer Georgians safe online counseling sessions. Whether you live in Atlanta or another area of the state, this lets you obtain help from the comfort and privacy of your own place.

Generally speaking, how long does grieving therapy take?

Every person has different therapy length. After just a few sessions, some customers feel relief; others gain from continuous support. We will cooperate to design a schedule fit for your requirements and degree of comfort.

The first treatment session goes like what?

Your first session is meant to be getting to know one another. Stephanie will invite you to talk about your aspirations, tell your story, and investigate how loss is influencing your life. You will get gentle direction and sympathetic listening—no hurry, no pressure.

Different from other therapies is Restore Counseling Therapist grief therapy?

We provide a customized, heart-centered, faith-affirming environment where you are a whole person negotiating intense emotions, not just a client. We want to help you not only with your recovery but also with your restoration by combining evidence-based approaches with spiritual care (when asked).