2025 Professional Webinar: Spiritual Pain: Is it more than just a pain in your soul?

Webinar Objectives:

1. Review recent research regarding spiritual pain and it's effects on care recipients.
2. To gain comfort discussing spiritual pain with care recipients, families and other clinical staff.

NACC Certification Competencies Addressed in this Webinar
ITP4, ITP6, PPS2, PPS8, PPS10, OL2

Presenter Information

Caterina Mako BCC has been board certified with the National Association of Catholic Chaplains since 2004 and a member of the NACC Board of Directors since 2023. Caterina's professional experience is spiritual care and mission integration with a focus on creating programs, managing organizational structures, and leading change. For over 10 years Caterina has provided vision, planning, and leadership that shaped numerous services that define Catholic Health, while remaining true to the religious identity of the organization always advancing organizational goal that seeks to be a healing presence in the world.

Brian Ballantine BCC has been board certified with the National Association of Catholic Chaplains since 2018. Brian currently resides in Durham, North Carolina with his spouse and three children and works as a Hospice Chaplain for the University of North Carolina Hospice. Brian has been working in Hospice and Palliative Care since 2016. He has been interested in spiritual pain as a concept since working at an assisted living facility for people with HIV and AIDS in the early 2000's. In his spare time Brian enjoys, reading, playing with his children and continuing to perfect his Neapolitan style pizza dough recipe.