Raymond is an Afro-Latino clinical social worker in practice for the past 20 years. He has addressed trauma care from every angle--as an educator, a business leader, a clinician, and in his personal life. In his life and work he draws from his mindfulness practice and interfaith spirituality, and psychotherapy modalities such as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), IFS (Internal Family Systems), Structural Dissociation and Ego States Therapy, EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy), Systems Therapy, and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. He is the founder and clinical director of Aldea Counseling Center. He has served on the faculty of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and has taught at the social work graduate programs of Columbia University and Smith College. Locally he has taught at Trauma Studies Program of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and the Trauma Certificate Program of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies.