Henry Gregory, PhD.

Dr. Henry Gregory is a mental health professional with over thirty years of experience.  He holds a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology and masters degrees in Community Mental Health and Psychology.  He has expertise and extensive experience as a clinician, educator, trainer, consultant and researcher in a number of service areas including substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, juvenile justice, child welfare, school-based mental health, and behavioral health.   

For the past nineteen years he has served as the clinical director of the Progressive Life Center (PLC), a non profit human services firm based in Washington, DC.  For three years he served as the clinical supervisor for University of Maryland, School of Medicine’s school-based mental health program. Currently, he is consulting faculty to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Department of Psychology. 

Dr. Gregory’s foundational clinical training is in family systems, specifically in structural family therapy.  He has specialized in the development of treatment and service models that are applicable to under-resourced populations.  Along with several colleagues, he has modified the original structural family therapy model and developed “Enriched Structural Family Therapy”.  At PLC he has spearheaded the development of “NTU Psychotherapy” a culturally competent system of care that is spiritually based.

Dr. Gregory consults and trains students and clinicians through his own organization, the Rafiki Consortium. He is focused on assisting students, families, clinicians, administrators and policymakers in understanding the strengths and resiliencies that have and do sustain poor and Black families in spite of the great odds that many face. 

As a constructivist, Dr Gregory passionately believes that we create our own destiny by how we think about ourselves and our circumstance. To this end, he believes that a focus on strengths, competencies, capacity etc will revolutionize the fields of mental health and education.  His recent research on resilience is intended to expand the knowledge base in the competency movement and consequently support culturally competent education and therapeutic service delivery to more diverse populations internationally.