ABOUT RACHEL

 
 

RACHEL HENES, LSW (SHE/HER)

Rachel Henes is a licensed social worker and expert consultant specializing in training educators and coaching parents in high-achieving school communities to create cultures of well-being and connection for both youth and adults. For over 20 years, Rachel has developed and led primary prevention programs in school communities, focused on social-emotional health on individual and community levels.

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, a substance use 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 loves holds a BA from the University of Michigan and an MSW from Hunter College in New York City.