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Finding Adoption Support in Chattanooga: What Therapy Can Look Like

When I first moved to Chattanooga and began working with families touched by adoption, I quickly learned that the standard playbook for therapy rarely fits. Adoption is not a single event. It is a lifelong process that touches identity, attachment, and family dynamics in ways that many clinicians do not fully understand. Over the years, I have sat with adoptees trying to make sense of their early losses, birth parents carrying grief that has no public ritual, and adoptive pa