Bereaved parents who have lost a child to cancer often report a feeling of isolation and a loss of social connectedness after leaving the treatment hospitals. Many of them also struggle to make sense of and find meaning in their traumatic experience of loss due to the untimely death of a young child. Challenges with finding meaning have been associated with prolonged and complicated grief symptoms that can adversely affect grieving parents’ quality of life. Although existing videoconferencing and social media tools can be used to provide bereavement support remotely, their user experiences are generally not engaging because of the fourth wall effect (an imaginary barrier that separates an audience from the fictional/virtual world), and they lack custom features to support meaning-centered grief therapies. Leveraging the unique affordances of multi-user immersive virtual reality (IVR) system and text-to-image generative artificial intelligence (AI), this project develops an immersive and individualized therapeutic experience that supports meaning-centered grief techniques and activities for bereaved parents in shared virtual worlds and fosters their social connectedness. Findings from project user studies will shed light on how different aspects of IVR system design will affect deep and sensitive emotion processing in bereaved parents when they are participating in mean-centered grief therapies in virtual environments (VEs). Most existing IVR therapies for mental health ar