Henry He

Henry He is a Chinese-Australian mental health professional, researcher, anxiety educator, and self-taught contemporary painter. After spending nearly twenty years in Australia, where he completed his undergraduate and postgraduate education in medical science, nursing, and mental health, he returned to China in 2019 to continue his work in anxiety education and artistic creation.

He is an Australian registered mental health nurse and has long focused on anxiety, emotional threat systems, nervous system responses, and the way human beings experience fear, uncertainty, control, and internal chaos. In China, he has become one of the most influential anxiety educators on Xiaohongshu, where he has guided a large number of people to understand anxiety from a new perspective: not as something to immediately eliminate, but as an internal frequency to be recognized, trained, and transformed while remaining conscious inside the unknown.

His painting practice began during a period of severe anxiety, when recurring dream-like images repeatedly appeared in his inner world: an unknown planet with unfamiliar oceans, skies, flying objects, silent figures, masks, vases, plants, and strange living beings. He named this place MANTARA.

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Postgraduate study in Mental Health Nursing, Australia
Undergraduate study in Medical / Health Sciences, Australia
Australian Registered Mental Health Nurse
Nearly twenty years of study, work, and life experience in Australia
Independent research focus: anxiety management, nervous system activation, cognitive responses to uncertainty, emotional threat systems, and recovery-oriented mental health education
Developer of the ABC Frequency anxiety management concept

Current series: MANTARA
An ongoing independent painting project exploring anxiety, uncertainty, emotional frequency, Taoist-influenced spatial transformation, and surreal inner landscapes.

Online presentation and collector introduction in progress.