Holistic Jungian therapist specializing in trauma and relationships
My name is John Henry, M.Ed., LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist). I have practiced as a mental health clinician for thirty-one years. Prior to working in the mental health field, I was an educator for thirteen years. During ten of those thirteen years, I acquired an expertise in early childhood education where I conducted parenting workshops and provided supervision and consultation in early childhood education classrooms. My clinical mental health experience includes working with trauma, LGBQT issues, anxiety, depression, work issues, relationships including couples work, dealing with parenting challenges, and providing consultation for twenty years to teachers in Oakland, California after school programs. I have provided numerous parenting workshops over the years for assisting parents in developing effective communication skills with their children. These workshops included managing the child’s behavior, understanding the underlying feelings and meaning of the behavior, and problem resolution. I have extensive work in providing individual, adolescent, family, couples, and adult therapy.
For about twenty-three years, I provided training and supervision to graduate school interns and mental health clinicians.
My experience is varied and across settings. I have worked mostly within a community mental health organization with additional experience in latency age children in a group home setting and as an adolescent and family therapist in a psychiatric hospital setting.
My theoretical approach is psychodynamic that focuses on the clients relationships with others in their life that impact their daily life functioning. Relationships are a key element in how we relate and interact with others. During the sessions, I am compassionate and empathic . I also use eclectic approaches such as trauma focused treatment, cognitive behavioral strategies, family structural work, solution based therapy, and client centered approaches.
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John Henry is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and educator who brings more than 34 years of professional experience to his clinical work in California. He holds a Master of Education and maintains licensure to practice as a marriage and family therapist in the state, combining deep training in human development with long-term clinical practice.
Before moving into mental health, he spent thirteen years as an educator, including a decade focused on early childhood education where he led parenting workshops and offered supervision and consultation in early childhood classrooms. Over many years he has provided consultation for teachers in Oakland, California after-school programs, a commitment that extended for twenty years.
In clinical practice he has worked extensively with trauma, LGBTQ issues, anxiety, depression, workplace and relationship concerns – including couples therapy – and a variety of parenting challenges. His experience spans individual, adolescent, family, couples, and adult therapy, and includes work within community mental health settings, a group home serving latency-age children, and an adolescent and family therapist role in a psychiatric hospital setting.
For roughly twenty-three years he has trained and supervised graduate interns and practicing clinicians. He has also led numerous parenting workshops centered on effective communication, understanding the feelings behind behavior, and problem resolution strategies for caregivers.
John Henry’s primary orientation is psychodynamic, with an emphasis on how relationships shape daily functioning. He brings a compassionate, empathic presence to sessions and integrates an eclectic set of methods as needed – including trauma-focused approaches, cognitive behavioral strategies, family structural work, solution-focused techniques, and client-centered practices.
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