Support for the whole person
Spiritual well-being is an important part of whole-person care. Addressing spiritual and emotional concerns can help patients and families feel more connected, supported, and at peace.
Spiritual Care
Someone to sit beside you and help you find peace.
Care that is guided by each person’s beliefs, values, traditions, and wishes—whether they follow a particular faith, consider themselves spiritual, or have no religious beliefs.
Here to walk alongside you through all of it.
When families are focused on medications, appointments, caregiving, and other physical needs, emotional and spiritual concerns can sometimes go unspoken.
Spiritual care provides a safe space to explore questions about meaning, purpose, relationships, hope, fear, loss, and what matters most. Our Spiritual Care Coordinators offer a calm, compassionate presence for patients, family members, and caregivers throughout the end-of-life journey.
Guided entirely by you
Every visit begins by listening. Our team learns what is important to the patient and family, then shapes support around their individual needs, beliefs, values, and preferences.
Available to people of every belief
Spiritual care is not limited to people who practice a religion. Our team supports individuals of every faith, those with no religious affiliation, and those who may be uncertain about what they believe.
Spiritual care and religious care
Spirituality is the way people seek and express meaning, purpose, connection, and hope. It may involve a connection to oneself, other people, nature, a sacred presence, or something greater.
Religious care is connected to the teachings, traditions, rituals, and practices of a particular faith.
Spiritual care can include religious support when that is meaningful to the patient, but it does not require religious belief or participation. Our Spiritual Care Coordinators never impose their own beliefs or practices. They meet each person where they are and honor the faith, values, and traditions that are important to them.
Every visit meets you exactly where you are.
There is no script or expectation. A spiritual care visit may involve conversation, prayer, reflection, music, silence, storytelling, or simply having someone present who is prepared to listen.
01Presence and compassionate listening
Sometimes the most meaningful support is having someone sit beside you and truly listen.
Our Spiritual Care Coordinators provide a calm, nonjudgmental presence where patients and families can speak openly about their feelings, beliefs, concerns, and experiences.
02Life review and reflection
Looking back on meaningful experiences can help patients recognize the relationships, values, accomplishments, and moments that have shaped their lives.
Our team may invite patients to share memories, tell stories, reflect on important milestones, or consider the lessons and messages they would like to leave with loved ones.
03Meaning, purpose, and legacy
Patients may wish to talk about what has given their life meaning, the roles they have valued, or what they hope their family will remember.
These conversations can help individuals reconnect with a sense of purpose and identify meaningful messages, traditions, stories, or legacies to share.
04Faith-specific support
For patients who find strength in religious traditions, spiritual care may include prayer, scripture, inspirational readings, familiar hymns, meditation, anointing, Eucharist, or other meaningful practices.
Our team can also help coordinate support from the patient’s own clergy or faith community.
05Reconciliation and forgiveness
End-of-life experiences may bring unresolved relationships, guilt, regret, or conversations that have been difficult to begin.
When appropriate, Spiritual Care Coordinators can help create a safe environment for expressions of forgiveness, gratitude, love, reconciliation, or closure.
06Support for families and caregivers
Spiritual care is also available to family members and caregivers experiencing anticipatory grief, stress, fear, exhaustion, or uncertainty.
Our team offers a place to talk honestly, process emotions, and identify the people, beliefs, and practices that provide strength.
Care comes to wherever you are.
Kristen Grandon, Lead Spiritual Care Coordinator, Treasure Coast HospiceWe are people here who genuinely care about what we do. It is not just a job. When we walk through your door, we want you to feel that. How can I love you through this and walk you home? That is where our heart beats.
What our Spiritual Care Coordinators can help with.
When possible, Spiritual Care Coordinators help patients and families:
- Explore beliefs, values, hopes, and fears.
- Find meaning and purpose during serious illness.
- Identify sources of strength and comfort.
- Process guilt, regret, grief, worry, or uncertainty.
- Work toward forgiveness or reconciliation.
- Restore or strengthen important relationships.
- Reflect on life experiences and personal legacy.
- Prepare emotionally and spiritually for the end of life.
- Connect with clergy, faith communities, or spiritual resources.
- Find hope, acceptance, comfort, and peace.
Spiritual care does not promise to resolve every concern. It provides a safe and supportive space where patients and families do not have to face those concerns alone.
Spiritual care can be part of the hospice care plan.
Spiritual assessment is an important part of whole-person hospice care. Every Treasure Coast Hospice patient has access to spiritual support, but participation is always voluntary.
Patients and family members can choose the type and frequency of support that feels right for them.
Talk with your care team
Ask your hospice nurse, social worker, or another care team member to arrange a visit with a Spiritual Care Coordinator. You may also call 772-403-4500.
Tell us what you need
You do not need to know exactly what kind of support to request. Tell us what you are experiencing, what is important to you, or simply that you would like someone to talk with.
Begin at your own pace
Some patients want regular visits, while others prefer one conversation or occasional support. There is no required schedule.
Adjust support as needs change
Spiritual and emotional needs can change throughout the hospice journey. The frequency and focus of visits can be adjusted at any time.
Stay connected after a loss
Following a death, families can receive continued grief support through the William and Helen Thomas Counseling Center and Treasure Coast Hospice’s bereavement programs.
We are here for all of it—including the part that is difficult to put into words.
You do not have to know what to say or what kind of support you need. Our Spiritual Care Coordinators will listen, honor what matters to you, and walk alongside you and your family at your own pace.