CREATIVE GRIEF CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
Online certification and training for your grief counseling practice
Hope For All
Grief literacy, support training, and creative tools for meaning making after loss and providing hope for both practitioners and your clients / groups.
The Creative Grief Studio, co-founded in 2012, offers a 12-month, 100% online grief support certification and continuing education for counselors, coaches, doulas, support group facilitators, body workers, artists, teachers and other helping professionals, whatever your niche, through an interactive program that integrates expressive arts with contemporary grief theory.
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Please Note: As of 2026, we have restructured how the program works, and it is now a 12-month program where you complete both course work and assessment for certification within the program year. Also there is no longer an application process, rather you simply register when spots are open.
Creatively Raise Your Grief Literacy Levels
If you wish to become certified as a creative grief support specialist or are looking for fresh perspectives, creative grief coaching skills or highly creative ways to enhance your grief support practice, including how a social justice lens can enhance your practice and clients’ experiences, the Creative Grief Studio Certification Program is for you!
Our online creative grief certification program provides training in contemporary grief support approaches that are richly supported by research and offers reflective, imaginative, and enjoyable ways to help your clients create meaningful pathways through loss. Our coursework focuses on material relevant to the full range of types of loss, not only the death of a loved one. The program integrates expressive arts approaches with evidence-based frameworks including meaning making, narrative therapy, and continuing bonds.
At Creative Grief Studio we share a deep value for the significance of life. We want to create a world where, in the face of great loss and grief, we appreciate and care for the uniqueness, preciousness, and significance of all grief and life experiences.
We do not view grief as a kind of illness or brokenness. We’re doing it differently.
Grieving people don’t need grief experts. We train creative, flexible, humble, and respectful grief support counselors and coaches. We center our attention on clients’ experiences, needs and resilience as they face their losses and bereavement.
Through our online grief support practitioners training we help you create new conversations with your clients as equals; conversations which hold theories loosely in favor of centralizing a client’s experience, voice and choices. Brave conversations that ask both client and practitioner, as equals, to reflect on their biases and prejudices. Conversations that support clients to craft their own preferred way of living with or after great loss.
Grieving and making meaning after loss is something we do together. In Creative Grief Studio we are passionate about conversations and creative activities that create a sense of belonging and connectedness, agency and hope, and we know that we can create that together.
Our grief practitioner training centers creative expression, including visual art, writing, ritual, and storytelling, as essential to meaning making after loss, not as supplemental techniques.
Registration open in January for the Spring start and in July for the Fall start or click Certification in the top menu to see many other pages of information about this program.
Here are all the details you’ll need to decide if our program is for you!
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