John Henry

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.