Dr. Michael C. Henry attended the University of Michigan for his undergraduate studies. He attained his M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology at Alliant International University, in southern California, where he studied brief therapies as well as in-depth work.

While still a graduate student and adjunct faculty at the University of California – San Diego, a tragic commercial airline crash resulted in Dr. Henry treating many community members who were devastated by the crash.

Subsequent experience treating campus rape and assault victims deepened his interest in treating victims of trauma. He is now a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychological Specialties in Trauma. He has worked as an expert witness in trauma cases as well as child custody and criminal cases and is a Fellow of the American College of Forensic Examiners.

He studied hypnotherapy with the renowned Milton Erickson, M.D. in Phoenix, Arizona, where he continued to learn more about creative and innovative solutions to personal problems. He worked in a pain clinic perfecting hypnosis and behavioral techniques for the treatment of chronic pain and psychosomatic illness.

He studied the works of C. G. Jung, where he took an interest in family stories and their influence a person’s life-direction. His interest in diagnostic and therapeutic stories and the themes that unwittingly repeat themselves in a person’s or a family's life, lead him to study Sand Tray therapy and dream work with children and adults.

He spent three years as a psychologist in a twenty-bed inpatient psychiatric unit during its first three years of operation. He passed the National Licensing Examination in 1982. He loves living near the water, "the source of all life", and has been in private practice in Holland Michigan, near Lake Michigan, since 1983.