John Henry, LMFT

John Henry is an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California with 34 years of clinical experience. He began his career as an educator and later moved into mental health, working with adults and adolescents on issues such as anxiety, depression, relationships, and anger.

He spent over a decade in early childhood education running parenting workshops and consulting in classrooms. That background shaped his practical focus on communication and behavior. He has also provided consultation to after-school programs in Oakland, California.

In clinical settings he has worked in community mental health, group homes for latency-age children, and psychiatric hospital programs for adolescents and families. He has provided individual, adolescent, family, couples, and adult therapy across those settings.

For about twenty-three years he trained and supervised graduate interns and other clinicians. His work includes parenting workshops on managing behavior, recognizing underlying feelings, and problem solving with children.

His primary theoretical perspective is psychodynamic, which looks at how relationships affect daily functioning. He also uses a range of approaches when helpful, including trauma-focused work, cognitive behavioral strategies, family structural ideas, solution-focused techniques, and client-centered methods. Sessions tend to emphasize understanding relational patterns and building practical skills for everyday life.

How his approaches translate to online work