John Henry, LMFT

John Henry is a California LMFT with 34 years of clinical experience. He began his career as an educator and later moved into mental health work, and he has long focused on relationship and parenting concerns.

He spent 13 years in education, with ten years focused on early childhood settings. During that time he ran parenting workshops and supervised early childhood classrooms. Those years shaped his practical approach to working with parents and caregivers.

Over three decades as a clinician, he has worked with trauma, LGBT concerns, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, and relationship problems. He has provided therapy for individuals and adults, and has also worked in adolescent and family therapy settings and psychiatric hospital work earlier in his career.

John has delivered many parenting workshops that addressed managing behavior, understanding the feelings behind behavior, communication skills, and problem solving. For about 23 years he provided training and supervision to graduate interns and clinicians, and he offered consultation to after-school programs in Oakland, California.

His main influences are psychodynamic ideas about how relationships shape daily life, alongside attachment-based thinking. He also uses client-centered methods, trauma-focused work, cognitive behavioral strategies, solution-focused techniques, and structural ideas with families. In sessions he talks through relationship patterns, parenting challenges, and practical steps people can try between meetings.

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