John Henry , LMFT

John Henry is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 34 years of experience in the mental health field. He began his career as an educator for thirteen years, spending ten of those years focused on early childhood education where he led parenting workshops and provided supervision and consultation in classroom settings. That background in education informs his longstanding emphasis on parent-child communication and practical strategies for managing behavior.

Over more than three decades as a clinician, he has worked with trauma, LGBT concerns, anxiety, depression, work-related stress, relationship and couples issues, parenting challenges, and a range of mood and behavioral disorders. He spent two decades consulting to teachers in Oakland after-school programs and has delivered numerous workshops that help parents develop effective communication skills, understand underlying feelings behind behavior, and resolve problems constructively.

John has extensive experience providing individual, adolescent, family, couples, and adult therapy. For about twenty-three years he has trained and supervised graduate interns and other mental health clinicians. His work has taken place primarily in a community mental health organization, with additional experience supporting latency-age children in group home settings and serving as an adolescent and family therapist in a psychiatric hospital.

His theoretical orientation is psychodynamic, emphasizing how relationships shape daily functioning, and sessions are carried out with compassion and empathy. He also integrates trauma-focused work, cognitive behavioral strategies, family-structural methods, solution-focused techniques, and client-centered approaches to tailor care to each client’s needs.