Follow Your Dreams Day

Celebrating A Special Day

May 5 is a very special day in Healing Haven history. It was on this day in 2014 that Healing Haven became a full-time, packed to capacity holistic ABA clinic serving the entire family.

The origins of Healing Haven began during our founder Jamie McGillivary’s years running the HOPE Center through Beaumont Hospital. For nearly 13 years she dedicated her life to the families that came to the clinic in search of help and hope for their children. Jamie and her team created a state-of-the-art program that helped families learn how to help their children in a climate and time that was not as accepting of autism and the challenges families face. Many of our leadership team also started their careers alongside Jamie.

Through this time, Jamie recognized the need for stress management for families and other services to help support them and their unique needs navigating the world of autism. While the hospital was supportive of Jamie’s ideas, they were not able to provide the tangible support to make it happen. However, in 2010 they gave Jamie the go-ahead to figure it out on her own, outside of her time at Beaumont. It was then that the Healing Haven was born, operating in the evenings. For four years Jamie and her small team worked endlessly long hours running two clinics. Though it was not easy, with dedication, hard work and perseverance, Jamie’s dream slowly came into vision.

The First Follow Your Dreams Day

When the hospital made changes to their program, she knew it was time to follow the calling, be brave and take a leap of faith. On May 3, 2014 Jamie and a handful of other Healing Haven leaders followed their guts, took a breath and jumped into something terrifying and wonderful. The first step was resigning their positions at Beaumont. The next Monday, May 5^th, the Healing Haven became a full-time, packed to capacity holistic ABA clinic serving the entire family, thus living out the first “Follow Your Dreams Day”!

Holistic ABA Clinic

Jamie remains forever grateful to the families and staff that saw the vision with her and made the jump to give us a chance. This year celebrates our 5^th year anniversary of becoming a full-time ABA clinic. What started off as a 1 employee business in a 10 by 10 room rented with money scraped together every month, has become what you know today, two ABA clinics totaling 25,000 square feet, with over 100 employees and growing! We continue to grow in size, quality programs and love.

“I am always in awe at the spectacular people that have been sent to walk the path with us,” explains Jamie. “I believe each one of you were sent here with a distinct purpose. Whether it is to help us further our mission, or to build you up in some way to help you fulfill yours. I am forever grateful for the dedication and love each of you show daily for our mission.”

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Helping Make Dreams Come True

If there’s one message that this day reminds us of, it is that dreams do come true! And if you are working from a place of love and integrity you can change the world. We remember this day to encourage our team members to think about their own dreams, set their intentions and thoughtfully set out to make them happen.