John Henry , LMFT

John Henry, M.Ed., LMFT brings decades of experience supporting individuals, couples, families, and adolescents through life transitions and emotional challenges. He holds a Master of Education (M.Ed.) and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), and he has practiced as a mental health clinician for 34 years. Before focusing on clinical work he spent 13 years in education, including ten years developing expertise in early childhood education where he led parenting workshops and provided supervision and consultation in classroom settings.

Over the course of his career he has worked with trauma, LGBT concerns, anxiety, depression, relationship and couples issues, parenting challenges, and addiction-related difficulties. He provided consultation to teachers in Oakland after-school programs for twenty years and has run numerous parenting workshops aimed at improving communication, managing behavior, uncovering the feelings behind actions, and resolving problems effectively. His clinical work spans individual, adolescent, family, couples, and adult therapy.

For about 23 years he has trained and supervised graduate interns and other mental health clinicians, combining community mental health experience with roles in group homes for latency-age children and in psychiatric hospital settings as an adolescent and family therapist. His core theoretical orientation is psychodynamic, with a focus on how relationships shape daily functioning and patterns of interaction. He integrates a compassionate, empathic stance with an eclectic toolkit that includes trauma-focused methods, cognitive behavioral strategies, family structural approaches, solution-focused techniques, and client-centered work to meet each client's needs.