Rachel Henes Consulting

Rachel Henes, LSW is an expert consultant specializing in training educators and coaching parents in high-achieving school communities to create cultures of well-being for youth and adults. For over 20 years, Rachel has developed and led prevention programs that both address the challenges facing young people in high-achieving schools; and help parents, educators and students create healthier connections and cultures. 

Rachel offers highly sought-after workshops for schools and organizations committed to turning the  research on achievement culture into action. Her clients include Brearley School, Grace Church School, The Packer-Collegiate Institute, The Washington Market School, Horace Mann School, Avenues: The World School, The Masters School.

Rachel is the co-author of “Preventing Substance Use & Addiction” in New Directions in Treatment, Education, and Outreach for Mental Health and Addiction Journal (2018),  as well as multiple curricula on gender, consent, and violence prevention that have reached thousands of youth and adults nationally and internationally. She is the former director of Hallways, an evidence-based prevention and social-emotional wellness program that served thousands of students, faculty and parents in New York City’s independent schools.

Rachel has received extensive anti-racist and gender-based violence prevention training from the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, the Center for Racial Justice in Education, and A CALL TO MEN. She has also received training and/or certifications in:

  • Mindful Parenting

  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

  • The Whole Brain Child Approach

  • Beyond Behaviors (with Dr. Mona Delahooke)

  • Foundations Course: The Coach Training Program For Helping Professionals

  • Collaborative & Proactive Solutions, Lives in the Balance Training

Rachel holds a Masters in Social Work from Hunter College in New York City and lives in South Orange, New Jersey.

Check out Rachel’s podcast called the Parenting Breakdown! Rachel and her husband Matt discuss the ins and outs of parenting mindfully in a non-stop, reactive world. Join Rachel & Matt each week as they explore the research about what helps kids thrive, the triggers that set us off, and practices that can help us breathe in the midst of it all. Through humor and candor, they discuss their own and listeners’ real-world parenting moments and journey to the heart of what parents care about most: helping our kids to become their best selves. Turns out, the journey can help us become our best selves too.