Jeremiah Puzzle for Counselors

Who We Are

Purpose

The Jeremiah Puzzle is a hands-on reflective tool designed to help older adults explore memories, strengthen focus, and find calm through gentle, structured engagement. Built around a magnetic puzzle and blackboard, it invites conversation, creativity, and connection — making it ideal for memory-care and assisted-living settings.

A Counseling Tool That Opens Dialogue Naturally

Many clients struggle to tell their life story in a linear, verbal format, especially when emotions, trauma, or long timelines are involved. Traditional intake questions can feel interrogative or overwhelming, causing clients to shut down or provide fragmented information.

The Jeremiah Puzzle offers an alternative entry point. By externalizing memories into short, visual prompts, clients are invited into reflection without being forced into disclosure. The process feels exploratory rather than evaluative, which lowers defensiveness and increases trust.

For counselors, this means conversations begin with curiosity instead of resistance. The puzzle becomes a neutral object in the room, one that holds the story so the client does not have to carry it alone.

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The Jeremiah Puzzle is intentionally flexible, making it applicable across a wide range of counseling contexts without requiring a specific modality.

Intake and Assessment Support

During early sessions, clients often provide disorganized or incomplete life histories. The puzzle helps surface key events, transitions, and relational moments in a way that feels manageable.

Counselors gain:

Faster contextual understanding
A clearer timeline of significant life events
Insight into what the client considers meaningful (not just what is clinically relevant)

Life Transitions and Identity Work

Clients navigating grief, divorce, retirement, faith shifts, or identity questions often struggle to locate themselves within their own story. The puzzle allows them to visually revisit earlier seasons and see continuity, resilience, and change over time.

This reframes transitions not as failures or disruptions, but as chapters within a larger narrative.

Faith-Based or Values-Centered Counseling

For counselors working within spiritual or values-based frameworks, the puzzle creates space to explore meaning, calling, and purpose without prescribing interpretation.

Clients identify the moments; counselors help them reflect on significance.

Many therapeutic tools fail not because they lack merit, but because clients feel intimidated, exposed, or judged by them. The Jeremiah Puzzle avoids these pitfalls by design.

Reduced Resistance Through Structure Without Pressure

Clients are not asked to “explain themselves.” They are simply asked to note memories—briefly, imperfectly, and at their own pace.

This structure:

Reduces emotional flooding
Prevents over-intellectualization
Encourages honest participation

Increased Ownership of the Narrative

Because clients choose what to include, exclude, or revisit, they remain in control of their story. This sense of agency is especially important for clients with trauma histories or authority sensitivity.

The counselor does not take ownership of the narrative—the client does.

About the Jeremiah Puzzle

Created in Calgary, Alberta, the Jeremiah Puzzle integrates art, memory, and reflection in a format that’s both therapeutic and meaningful.

Journal

Reflect. Discover. Understand Your Story.

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Jeremiah Puzzle for Counselors

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