Healing Place

04/22/2026

Thank you to Herencia Residential & Commercial for featuring our founder, Lorraine Guerrero Neumayer, on your podcast as part of Hometown Highlights 🤎

We’re honored to share the heart behind Healing Place and the work we do in our community.

🎧 Listen starting at 44:15 to hear Lorraine’s segment!

Grateful for spaces that uplift local stories and support healing ✨

04/19/2026

So honored to share that WCCN stopped by Healing Place to interview me about my trauma therapy practice 💛 Grateful for such a wonderful team who helped bring this story to life.

This work means everything to me, and I’m so excited to keep building a space for healing in our community.

Read the full feature here: https://wccn.news/healing-place-opens-for-trauma-support 🫶🏽

04/16/2026

04/16/2026

A little girl made this for me today 🫶🏽
I can’t even count how many of these have been made for me through the years but I appreciate each one.

04/10/2026

04/09/2026

Healing Place warmly invites our community to a parent session in partnership with Joliet Public Schools District 86 💙

Strong Families, Resilient Kids

Join our founder and CEO, Lorraine Guerrero Neumayer, LSW, CADC, PEL, licensed clinical social worker, for a heartfelt conversation on understanding and supporting children through difficult life experiences.

Families will learn simple, practical ways to respond with care so children feel safe, connected, and ready to learn.

At Healing Place, we believe that when families are supported, children are able to heal, grow, and thrive.

Please register to attend: https://forms.gle/7ch3gzC6Q4WqkBF99

We hope to see you there 💫

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Healing Place invita con mucho cariño a nuestra comunidad a una sesión para padres en colaboración con las Escuelas Públicas de Joliet Distrito 86 💙

Familias sólidas, niños resilientes

Acompáñenos a una conversación significativa dirigida por nuestra fundadora y directora ejecutiva, Lorraine Guerrero Neumayer, LSW, CADC, PEL, trabajadora social clínica licenciada, sobre cómo comprender y apoyar a los niños ante experiencias difíciles de la vida.

Las familias aprenderán formas prácticas y accesibles de responder con apoyo para que los niños se sientan seguros, conectados y listos para aprender.

En Healing Place, creemos que cuando las familias reciben apoyo, los niños pueden sanar, crecer y prosperar.

Regístrese para asistir: https://forms.gle/7ch3gzC6Q4WqkBF99

Esperamos verlos allí 💫

04/07/2026

04/04/2026

Healing Place is proud to be a team sponsor for East Joliet Athletics! ⚾️💙

Huge congratulations to East Joliet Athletics on your Grand Opening today at Joe Belman Field at Desmond Park!! Even with the rain and cold, the energy was undeniable… kids showed up ready to play, to shine, to be part of something bigger than themselves. That kind of joy? That’s community.

We were especially proud to have our founder and CEO, baseball fan and former player Lorena Lorraine Guerrero, there in full support. Through Healing Place, she continues to invest in spaces where young people can grow, feel seen, and build confidence both on and off the field.

It was beautiful to see so many parents, family members, friends, and community members such as Tanya Arias, President of Collins Street Council, and Sylvia Laura, social worker and EJA supporter, come together to uplift this incredible program. Special shoutout as well to EJA President Esmeralda DeLuna for her leadership in making this vision a reality.

This is what it looks like when a community shows up for its youth. Recreation and sports are more than just games, they help children build resilience, process emotions, and heal from trauma in powerful ways.

Let’s keep cheering them on all season long ⚾️✨.

04/01/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to the Ribbon Cutting & Grand Opening of my trauma therapy private practice, Healing Place, in downtown Joliet hosted by Latino Economic Development Association.
I dedicated my new practice to my most beloved familia of Cyclebreakers, my siblings and my cousins: especially Dan, Robert, Eddie, Nathan, Arthur and Serena. I love you. My entire social work career is dedicated to you, survivors of childhood trauma & the people who fostered our resilience.
I am still overwhelmed by the sheer number of individuals and organizations that came out to support me, sent flowers, emails, texts, calls and snail mail. The storm had nothing on Healing Place! We celebrated National Social Work month in style.
My trauma therapy private practice is based on a therapy guided imagery technique called Safe Place where you choose a place, real or imaginary, engaging all 5 senses, to reduce anxiety and create calm. Mine is based on my “Grandpa” Joe’s home.

I tried to be careful with mentioning names but I do want to give more gratitude to Bonnie Altiery Higgenbotham, my foster mom for attending.
Thank you to the City of Joliet & our elected officials who spoke as well. Especially my friend Cesar Cardenas who referred me to Diana Viveros at LEDA and who reminds me to always give gratitude to my husband, Aaron Neumayer.

The ribbon cutting would not have happened without my dearest friends who created my logo, website and had meetings with me late at night and early in the morning. The people who are my Calm in the Chaos.

The Healing Place Team, Isabel Gloria, Juan Guzman and Haydee Martinez. We will be officially taking insurance by the end of this month!

This ribbon cutting would also not have happened without the Kind, Hard working, Generous Support of the people who make up these businesses in our downtown community: Michele Arana at Internode Greenery & Market, Social Butterfly Coffee, Sue Regis Glass Art, Waywards Art Haus, DVS Solutions & of course, Unidos Marketing Network

03/30/2026

03/23/2026

Meet the Healing Place Team! Join us in welcoming Isabel Gloria, our Chief Communications Strategist!

Isabel is also the founder of Moon & Sun Creative LLC, a bilingual communications company providing graphic design, writing, translation, and strategic communications in both English and Spanish. They hold a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology with a Global Health and Environment track and a minor in Spanish from Washington University in St. Louis.

With professional experience spanning nonprofit, corporate, and government sectors, Isabel brings a thoughtful, interdisciplinary lens to their work, bridging storytelling, strategy, and community impact. Their work is rooted in a deep commitment to equity, with a focus on immigrant rights, public health, and LGBTQ+ advocacy.

In addition to their communications work, Isabel is a licensed cosmetologist who enjoys expressing creativity through hair cutting, coloring, and styling. Across all their work, they are driven by a passion for helping people feel seen, understood, and empowered.