Welcome to the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast, a weekly conversation about mental health,

personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions

of ourselves.

I'm your host, Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia.

For more information or to find a therapist in your area, visit our website at therapyforblackgirls.com.

While I hope you love listening to and learning from the podcast, it is not meant to be a substitute

for a relationship with a licensed mental health professional.

Hey y'all, thanks so much for joining me for session 162 of the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast.

Much of what we've been experiencing in various ways over the past couple of months is grief.

Re-related to the loss of loved ones, our previous way of life, and our ideas about what

2020 would look like.

To help us dig a little deeper into what grief looks like given our current state of affairs,

Dr. Agetta Robinson returns with us as a guest.

Dr. Robinson is a licensed clinical professional counselor, trauma and grief expert, first-generation

trauma and poverty disruptor.

She is the founder and executive director of Friends and Transition Counseling Services,

a trauma-centered mental health practice located in Bethesda, Maryland.

She's also the CEO of Legacy Wellness Group, a conglomerate of enterprises dedicated to promoting

generational wealth, education and healing.

Dr. Robinson and I chatted about our collective sense of grief, how our rituals around grief

have been upended, the importance of processing symbolic losses, and her thoughts about the

work that will need to be done on the other end of the pandemic.

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