Your Spiritual Care Team
Manager
Keith is a certified spiritual care practitioner with the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC) and a registered psychotherapist (RP) with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO). Prior to joining the team at St. Joe's Hamilton in 2020, Keith worked at various campuses of the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto, Ontario, since 2014. Keith has a Bachelor of Arts degree, double majoring in sociology and philosophy from King's College at the University of Western Ontario (UWO) and a Master of Divinity from St. Peter's Seminary (also of UWO). Keith enjoys the great outdoors, camping, hiking and running. Most importantly, he is happily married and recently welcomed into the world a baby girl who stole his heart. Since joining the St. Joe's Hamilton team, he has very much enjoyed working with his spiritual care colleagues, as well as the wider healthcare community and looks forward to each opportunity to actively engage and collaborate with members of the St. Joseph's Health System Spiritual Care Community of Practice and many others! Keith is currently working out of the West 5th Campus.
Priest / Chaplain
Fr. Andrew has been working as a priest chaplain at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton since 2001. Originally from Ukraine where he studied languages, literature, and pedagogy at the University of Lviv, his theological education began in his home country, and later continued at the Westfaelischen Wilhelms University in Muenster, Germany. He is at home in his theologies of both the Christian East and West. His love for hospital work was initiated in Europe, and matured through chaplaincy training here in Canada. Andrew is also a Registered Psychotherapist, and is a member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario.
Chaplains
Lucinda Landau, RP, MDiv, DMin, is a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario. She is a Certified Spiritual Care Practitioner (CASC) and she has recently completed the Doctor of Ministry program at the Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto. Her Doctoral research was focused on Spiritual Care and life review at end of life. She works fulltime as a chaplain at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton and serves on the Professional Advisory Council of Bereaved Families of Ontario, South Central Region.
Alex is a Spiritual Care Practitioner at the West 5th Campus focusing on psycho-spiritual care within the mental health context. Alex received his M.Div from St. Peter's Catholic Seminary and is a Registered Psychotherapist. He completed his residency in spiritual care at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton. Alex has had experience as a spiritual care provider working with a variety of populations including dementia, palliative, general and emergency medicine. He is also a counsellor at Catholic Family Services in Hamilton and works in music and retreat ministry in the Hamilton Diocese. Alex is passionate about those who come for care at St. Joseph's Healthcare. He is grateful for the opportunity to serve others within the St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton team. At home he practices self-care by exploring the world around him through hiking, biking, jazz music and reading.
Stephen will be working at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and is assigned to the West 5th campus. He graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University with a Masters in Spiritual Care and Counselling; successfully completed the St. Joe’s Supervised Pastoral Education Residency; became certified as a Spiritual Care Practitioner through the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care, and is a registered member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario. Following two years with St. Leonard’s Addiction Mental Health Crisis Centre in Brantford, Stephen worked as a full time Spiritual Care Psychotherapist at West Park Healthcare Centre in Toronto. Stephen brings a love of music as an agent of healing, interconnectedness and beauty as well as a long standing Zen Buddhist practice to this role. He is passionate about caring for patients, and caring for those who care for patients through providing healthcare staff with innovative, inclusive and clinically validated support. It is an honour to serve the sick.
Sanjay is a certified spiritual care practitioner with the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC) and a registered psychotherapist (RP) with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).