About John
John Henry is a licensed marriage and family therapist with more than three decades in mental health. He began his career as an educator and later shifted to clinical work, bringing teaching and consultation skills into therapy.
Background and approach
His background includes running parenting workshops and supervising other clinicians. He practices from California as a CA LMFT and brings a calm, practical presence to sessions.
Henry focuses on relationships, trauma, mood challenges, and stress. He helps people address anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and intimacy concerns.
He also supports those coping with life changes, career questions, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. He draws on a mix of methods to meet real problems that show up in daily life.
In the room he emphasizes how relationships shape behavior and feeling. He uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time.
He also borrows tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma-focused work when that helps a person solve a current problem. Parents may find his years of experience in early childhood education useful for handling behavior and communication with children.
He has led many parenting workshops on setting limits, understanding feelings, and resolving problems. He has also consulted for school programs in Oakland, California.
For nearly a quarter century he has trained and supervised graduate interns and other clinicians. That teaching background informs his clear, steady style.
He aims to listen first, then offer practical steps people can try between sessions.
How attachment, CBT, and mindful work translate online
John Henry uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past and present relationships shape current reactions and patterns. That perspective helps when people want to understand repeated conflicts, trust issues, or attachment wounds and how those play out in daily life.He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thought patterns and try practical experiments that change behavior and mood. CBT techniques are useful for anxiety, depression, and coping strategies that can be practiced between sessions.
Mindfulness approaches are used to help people notice strong feelings without being swept away by them and to build steadying routines for stress and emotion regulation.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then adjust methods as needed. Clients often combine approaches depending on what comes up in sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility and fits into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper connection helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can work well for check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter, frequent check-ins or a way to share thoughts between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, and caregiving obligations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English