Mission & Credentials
The writer Hinch lives and works at the confluence of literature, music, dance and rhythmic movement, trauma research, psychology and spirituality. He actively engages in speaking events, workshops and community initiatives. In his capacity as a trained and healing professional, he raises awareness, providing support for those facing similar challenging circumstances.
He holds advanced degrees in the following; M.A. in Speech, Rhetoric and Communication. M. Ed. In Adult and Community Counseling with lifetime certification for school counseling in NYS. A more recent completion is his M.F.A. in Creative Writing with concentration in poetry and fiction.
The writer has also taken part in two worldwide conferences held in Boston and headed by the world’s leading trauma authority, Bessel van Der Kalk. He’s attended both live and zoomed presentations with Drs. Peter Levine and Richard Schwartz. And he has undergone these treatments—Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; EMDR and somatic experiencing (and now writing). He’s participated in the Bristlecone Pine Project and attended several survivor workshops. Hinch has also served on a bi-county committee advancing causes related to sexual assault and familial violence. Lastly, he’s taken continuing education classes through Adelphi University School of Social Work. One class that was very helpful involved teaching clients in the use of expressive art as a healing modality.
As for his own recovery and growth, he targets the improvement of three elements of his life. These are: bettering his connections to others; growing self-supporting actions and thoughts in an attempt to feel more whole; and continuing to work at finding meaning for what he has been through. Connected to all three is his increasing ability to recognize what joy is and to bring about more joy in his already joyful, newly put-together self.
A writing mentor has described the writer as possessing “a memoirist approach, using stream of consciousness style sprinkled with elements of self-help.” Hinch himself describes his narrative as: the search for a self wherein the child self has been objectified, controlled and brutally abused. He makes use of the writing as a way to: put the past and keep the past in the past; to more fully develop the voice he was denied as a child; to develop new perspectives on what happened and his place in that and after that; and to move forward more purposely for himself as well as for those who’ll appreciate his journey out of the darkness and into the light. He hopes to aid readers and writers in accepting that they, too, can work through the trauma in which they feel controlled.
He asserts: Recovery is both Possible and Thrilling!