Eric J Henley is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Clinical Director, and lifelong student of the unseen forces that shape human lives. He is a passionate advocate for personal transformation and healing. With over two decades of guiding individuals, couples, and families through the delicate terrain of trauma, healing, and transformation, Eric has witnessed firsthand the profound impact of perception on the human journey. He brings a rare blend of clinical wisdom, soulful reflection, and compassionate presence to his work.

Eric's mission is to awaken and encourage others to live from

a posture of compassionate curiosity...to face challenge with openness, embrace transformation with courage, and seek wisdom with humility. Through this lens, Eric believes we can nurture deeper self-awareness, heal relationships, and reimagine the systems that connect us all.

Drawing on his background in trauma-informed care, attachment science, somatic experiencing, and narrative reauthoring, Eric's approach is rooted equally in research and reverence. Eric weaves

clinical insight with timeless wisdom to create accessible, compassionate pathways for change.

His work is deeply influenced by leading voices in the field, including Sue Johnson, Brené Brown, Gabor Maté, Bessel van der Kolk, and Peter Levine, while also honoring the ancient traditions that understood healing as a sacred remembering.

Eric’s heart-centered approach invites readers to move beyond survival into conscious, wholehearted living. His work

invites readers to step beyond survival into conscious, wholehearted existence, where tenderness becomes strength and self-awareness becomes freedom.

Eric believes that perception is both mirror and map, the lens through which we interpret our lives and the compass that guides the stories we live. Through his writing, speaking, and consulting, he encourages others to meet themselves, and each other, with the transformative power of compassionate curiosity.

Eric is known for embodying and inviting others into a life shaped by compassionate curiosity…toward themselves, toward one another, and toward the unseen stories beneath the surface.

He believes that through this sacred posture, healing is possible: personal wounds can mend, families can be restored, relationships can be redeemed, and even cultural and generational fractures can begin to heal. It begins with the willingness to open our eyes and ears—to see beyond the inherited lenses and unconscious Cycles of Perception that keep us bound to patterns of harm, and to step, instead, into new ways of being.

Cycles of Perception is born from a deep desire to illuminate the invisible patterns that shape us

—and to offer hope that no cycle is unbreakable when met with awareness, courage, and love.

This book is a culmination of years spent listening…to others, to himself, to the quiet teachings hidden beneath pain and resilience. It is an offering to anyone seeking to break the invisible patterns that bind them and step into a more spacious, loving way of being.

Away from the page, Eric finds joy in quiet mornings with coffee, the sacred stillness of exploring mountain trails, and deep conversations that touch the soul. He lives and works in Arizona, carrying with him the belief that even the most tangled story can find its way back to light.