Grieflandia for Therapy, Counseling, and Grief Professionals

A practical, character-based tool for helping clients recognize and talk about grief in therapy environments, grief groups, bereavement programs, and educational settings.

Why Grieflandia Works in Practice

Grieflandia provides a simple, flexible way to externalize internal experiences.

Instead of asking a client to describe how they feel, you can invite them to identify what feels familiar.

This shift can help:

• reduce pressure to “find the right words”
• make abstract experiences more observable
• support clients who struggle to articulate emotions
• allow multiple, even conflicting, experiences to be observed at the same time

It creates a shared language for experiences that are often difficult to describe, without requiring a clinical framework.

Bring Grieflandia Into Your Practice

The Grieflandia card deck offers a simple, effective way to support clients in recognizing and understanding their grief.

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How To Use Grieflandia

Grief has many faces. This gives you a way to help clients recognize them.

  • Using the Deck with Clients

    Invite clients to select one or more cards that reflect what they’ve been experiencing.

    Use those selections as entry points for conversation, exploration, and discovery.

    The cards help clients name thoughts, emotions, or reactions that they may not have realized were related to grief or have otherwise be difficult to describe.

  • Using Characters in Conversation

    Clients refer to thoughts, feelings, and experiences by selecting characters instead of speaking abstractly.

    This allows for a level of distance that make conversations feel more accessible.

    For example, a client might see the character Ouchie Boo Boo and recognize that their joint stiffness, pain, and just feeling crummy physically might in fact be a part of their grief.

  • Group Facilitation

    In group settings, the deck can provide structure without forcing uniformity and supports both speaking and listening.

    • Participants select cards that reflect their current experience
    • Shared selections highlight common experiences
    • Different selections reinforce the individuality of grief
    • Reflection questions may prompt discussion or quiet contemplation

Where Grieflandia Can Be Useful

  • Therapy

  • Grief counseling programs

  • Hospice bereavement services

  • Peer support groups

  • Chaplaincy & pastoral care

  • Professional education and development

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Grieflandia can be used as a primary tool or alongside existing approaches.

Supporting the Work You Do

You sit with people in some of the hardest moments of their lives.

You ask questions, create space, and try to help them make sense of experiences they often don’t have words for.

And even with the right training, the right approach, and the right intentions, there are moments when clients struggle with how to name what they’re feeling or where to begin.

Grief isn’t linear. It isn’t consistent. And it often shows up in ways that are difficult for people to describe.

Grieflandia was created with this in mind.

It offers a shared language for grief, helping people recognize experiences that may otherwise feel difficult to identify or explain.

Grieflandia is in its early stages, and we are interested in feedback from professionals who work with grief, bereavement, and loss. We welcome perspectives from therapists, counselors, social workers, chaplains, hospice, and bereavement professionals, peer facilitators, and educators. If you would like to share feedback, explore ways to use the deck, or participate in future development, join the list below.

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