John Henry , LMFT

John Henry, M.Ed., LMFT (Master of Education and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) brings decades of experience working with children, individuals, couples, and families. He practiced as a mental health clinician for thirty-one years after a thirteen-year career in education, during which he developed particular expertise in early childhood education and led parenting workshops while providing supervision and consultation in classroom settings.

Across his clinical career he has worked with trauma, LGBTQ issues, anxiety, depression, workplace concerns, couples and relationship dynamics, parenting challenges, and has offered ongoing consultation to teachers in Oakland, California after-school programs for twenty years. He has delivered numerous parenting workshops that focus on building effective communication with children, managing behavior, uncovering the feelings beneath actions, and resolving practical family problems. His direct clinical work spans individual, adolescent, family, couples, and adult therapy.

For about twenty-three years he provided training and supervision to graduate interns and practicing mental health clinicians. His experience includes roles in community mental health settings, work with latency-age children in a group home, and adolescent and family therapy in a psychiatric hospital. He works from a psychodynamic perspective that emphasizes how relationships shape daily functioning, and he pairs that orientation with trauma-focused methods, cognitive behavioral strategies, family-structural work, solution-focused techniques, and client-centered approaches. He is known for a compassionate, empathic stance in session.