What is a spiritual care professional?

• Spiritual care professionals help patients and families with their spiritual health
• Spiritual care professionals are multi-faith, non-denominational health care professionals focused on helping patients and families discover and/or draw on their spiritual resources
• Spiritual care professionals helps patients and families explore life’s ‘big questions’ (meaning, purpose, legacy) that often arise when facing a cancer diagnosis
• Spiritual care professionals provide emotional support to patients and families.
• Spiritual care professionals have advanced training in helping patients and families address spiritual distress

Why use a spiritual care professional?

• Spiritual care professionals are a part of your healthcare team and can be found at most cancer centres.
• Spiritual care professionals You can also request to be connected with a spiritual care provider.
• Cancer diagnosis often effects our sense of meaning and purpose, you may want to seek out the support of a Spiritual Care Professional