In person in Burlington · online across Ontario
Holly Raymond
Registered Social Worker · MHA · MSW · RSW
- Couples, Families & Individuals
- English
Support for ADHD, Affair Recovery, Anger Management, Anxiety and 22 more ↓
Areas of focus
If what you are carrying is not listed, it is still worth a conversation.
- ADHD
- Affair Recovery
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Behavioural Issues
- Bipolar Disorder
- Blended Family
- Children & Attachment
- Children & Sexualized Behaviour
- Conflict Resolution
- Couples Communication
- Couples & Marriage
- Depression
- Domestic Abuse
- Emotional Unavailability
- Grief and loss
- Men's Issues
- Modern Parenting
- Sensory Processing Disorder
- Separation & Divorce
- Teen Issues
- Anxiety in Children
- Women's Issues
- Life Coaching
- Love Restore
- Toxic Relationships
Also works with Abortion issue, Abuse survivor issues, Addictions, Aggression, Aging parents / elder care, Alcohol drug addiction, Attachment, Body image issues, Career change development, Caregiver stress, Child abuse, Children divorce, Co-parenting, Codependency, Confidence, Control issues, Crisis intervention, Eating disorders, Elder abuse / exploitation, Emotional / psychological abuse, Family conflict, Family of origin, Financial stress, First responders, Forgiveness, Gambling addiction, Health wellness, Life transitions, Love intimacy, Mood disorders, Mother and daughter relationships, Obsessive compulsive disorder, Parenting, Parenting attachment, Pre-marital, Professional burnout, PTSD, Rehabilitation, Relationships dating, Return to work, Same sex couples, Self-esteem, Self-harm, Sexual assault victim, Sexual health, Sexualized behaviour, Special needs / disabilities, Spiritual issues, Stress management, Teen divorce, Toxic habits, Trust issues and Workplace issues.
In Holly's words
I have worked in health care for the last 23 years. For 17 of those years, I worked at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton where I was employed as the Clinical Supervisor for Womankind Addiction Services, managed in-patient, and out-patient mental health services, was instrumental in starting the first fully integrated in-patient Concurrent Disorder program in Canada, and the Rapid Access Addiction Medicine Program (RAAM). For my last four years at St. Joseph’s Health Care Hamilton, I worked as the Director of Acute Mental Health Services overseeing Womankind, Men’s Addiction Service Hamilton, The RAAM Clinic, Coast, the Psychiatric Emergency and four inpatient units. For 13 years I have also operated my private practice treating patients presenting with a variety of issues, Previously I was employed at CAMH, Alcohol Drug and Gambling Services, Men’s Addiction Service and McMaster University in the Centre for Student Development. I graduated from the University of Toronto with a Master of Social Work and received a Master of Health Administration from the University of Regina.
Background
Mission Legacy Award
Qualifications & registrations
- Also holds
- McMaster University Award for Supporting Residents
- YWCA – Woman of Distinction Award Nominee
- Experience
- 23 Years
Trained in these approaches, drawn on depending on what each person needs, not a fixed formula.
- Acceptance Commitment Therapy
- Attachment Therapy
- Behavioural Therapy
- Christian Counselling
- CBT
- Cognitive Processing Therapy
- Critical Incident Debriefing
- DBT
- Exposure Therapy
- Family Systems Therapy
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- Systems Therapy
- Traumatic Incident Reduction
- Family Attachment
- Spiritual Therapy
A few questions, answered
My parents were both in helping professions and they involved me in their work from a young age. As I grew up, I was inspired to make a difference in people’s lives. I worked in many areas in healthcare but when I became a therapist I felt totally fulfilled.
The opportunity to meet people wherever they are at, nonjudgmentally, and instill hope.
Even looking at this webpage is the first step and takes tremendous courage. It is completely normal to be hesitant to attend counselling. It goes against human nature to share personal information with a stranger. Counselling is worth the risk. You are worth doing this for.
Being nominated for the Women of Distinction Award.
The opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives.
A relationship is simply a contract between two people. Problems arise when the terms of the contract have not been discussed, or one or both parties are not following the contract. Counselling is the opportunity to re-establish the terms of the contract, which should include having lots of fun.
Getting to know Holly
- What activity instantly calms you?
- Reminding myself to breath.
- Would you rather cook or order in?
- Order in.
- What’s your “dance like nobody’s watching” song?
- Anything from Dirty Dancing.
- Who has had the greatest influence in your life?
- My father.