Compassion. Presence. Community Healing.
Board Certified Chaplaincy Care providing trauma-informed spiritual support for senior centers, schools, and community organizations. We facilitate healing circles and strategic restoration for partners committed to collective well-being.
Compassionate Care
Community Focused
Trauma-Informed
Clinical Excellence
Institutional Partnerships
Sacred Care.
Professional Practice.
Community Healing.
Every community carries the unseen weight of spiritual pain, yet few have the professional resources to address it deeply. Our work bridges this gap through Board Certified Chaplaincy Care, offering a clinical and compassionate anchor for collective restoration. We provide a specialized path for healing, ensuring that spiritual distress is met with expert practice and profound care.
Signature Program: Black Spiritual Trauma Care (BSTC)
Black Spiritual Trauma Care, known as BSTC, is a chaplaincy-led community healing model designed to support Black communities and other urban communities impacted by trauma, grief, violence, aging, illness, caregiver stress, social isolation, and spiritual distress.
BSTC is not therapy. It does not replace clinical mental healthcare. Instead, we provide professional spiritual and emotional care while collaborating with clinical, social service, and community partners to ensure restorative healing.
BSTC helps communities:
Process grief and loss
Specialized spiritual support for collective mourning and personal bereavement.
Address spiritual distress
Clinically-informed care for questioning meaning, faith, and existence after trauma.
Create safe spaces for healing
Facilitated circles that foster psychological safety and spiritual connection.
Support seniors and caregivers
Expert guidance for those navigating aging, illness, and the weight of caregiving.
Respond to community trauma
Strategic spiritual response for neighborhoods impacted by violence or systemic stress.
Restore meaning and hope
Professional practices focused on communal dignity and future resilience.
Healing Insights & Clinical Practice
Deepen your understanding of professional chaplaincy care, trauma-informed healing circles, and our clinically anchored support systems for community restoration.
Senior Centers
Providing professional chaplaincy care for older adults navigating the complexities of aging, grief, isolation, and spiritual meaning-making.
Community Organizations
Partnering with organizations serving caregivers and families to implement community-rooted restorative care models.
The Organizations We Partner With
Faith Communities
Equipping congregations to address spiritual trauma, violence, and collective loss with professional structure and theological depth.
Consulting for Institutions
Building institutional resilience through staff training, pilot programs, and the deployment of professional chaplaincy frameworks.
Youth Programs
Integrating trauma-informed spiritual support into programs for youth and families navigating systemic stress and trauma.
Why This Work Matters
Holistic Spiritual Care and BSTC were created to stand in that gap.
Many people are living with unprocessed grief, silent trauma, spiritual exhaustion, and emotional pain. In Black and urban communities, these wounds are often intensified by violence, housing stress, poverty, aging, illness, family disruption, caregiver burden, and systemic inequities.
Clinical care is essential, but not every wound presents first as a clinical need. Some pain shows up as spiritual distress. Some grief needs sacred space. Some communities need trusted facilitators who understand both trauma and faith, both professional care and lived community experience.
Founder
Rev. Dr. Derrick Shahem Johnson Sr., BCC
Rev. Dr. Derrick Shahem Johnson Sr., BCC, is a Board Certified Chaplain, ordained minister, community leader, and founder of Holistic Spiritual Care and Black Spiritual Trauma Care. His work brings together professional chaplaincy, pastoral leadership, trauma-informed care, palliative and geriatric spiritual support, community engagement, and a deep commitment to healing in Harlem and other urban communities.
His chaplaincy formation includes clinical spiritual care experience within the VA healthcare system, with exposure to mental health chaplaincy, palliative care, interdisciplinary collaboration, grief care, spiritual assessment, substance abuse recovery support, and care for veterans, seniors, patients, families, and care teams.
Holistic Spiritual Care and Black Spiritual Trauma Care (BSTC) provide spiritual care, emotional support, education, group facilitation, staff training, and referral guidance. We do not provide psychotherapy, medical diagnosis, psychiatric treatment, physical therapy, or emergency crisis intervention. When clinical, medical, or crisis support is needed, we encourage connection to appropriate licensed professionals and emergency resources.