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BIO
I have a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Counseling psychology training is similar to clinical psychology in many ways, but it generally focuses more on examining how social context (such as family upbringing, school and career experiences, and cultural identities) intersect to influence the person’s experience of the world. My Ph.D. training involved clinical rotations in community mental health, college counseling, and a residential treatment facility. I worked with a broad range of presenting concerns, from mild anxiety to schizophrenia, with people from many different socio-cultural backgrounds.
My psychology internship training was at the University of Iowa’s University Counseling Service (UCS). My internship training focus was psychodynamic psychotherapy, the outpatient treatment of eating disorders, group psychotherapy, and outreach. Above all, the most meaningful aspect of my training at University of Iowa was the opportunity to engage in intensive clinical supervision that both pushed my practice and significantly challenged me emotionally to examine how my personality impacts my work. After internship, I joined University of Iowa as a staff psychologist, continuing clinical work there, teaching personality and diagnostic assessment, giving presentations on psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and supervising other clinicians’ work. In August 2019, I moved back to Dallas and provided psychotherapy with the wonderful practitioners at Dallas Therapy Collective, and in August 2020, I started this practice.
My specific training in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis is somewhat eclectic and did not take place in one particular setting. I have been fortunate to have supervisors skilled in psychodynamic psychotherapy throughout my training. I have also participated frequently in national conferences and pursued psychoanalytic training opportunities in addition to my formal psychology training. To this day, I am involved in additional psychodynamic training and consultation alongside my clinical practice.
Outside of practicing psychotherapy, I enjoy spending time with family and friends, playing tennis, cooking, writing, and making art.
Credentials
Licensed Psychologist (Texas) - #38292
Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology (2017) – University of Missouri-Kansas City
M.A. in General Counseling & Guidance (2015) – University of Missouri-Kansas City
B.A. in Psychology & English/Creative Writing (2009) – Bucknell University
PAST Professional Offices
President – Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, 2023-2024
Executive Council Member - Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, 2022-2024
Community Relations Chair - Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, 2020-2022
Co-Chair - Division 39 Candidates Outreach Committee, 2021-2022
Selected Presentations, Publications, & Scholarship
Hinshaw, A.B. (2024). Destroyer/Creator: Aggression in the Clinical Process. Continuing education presentation for the Dallas Society of Psychoanalytic Psychology (DSPP).
Hinshaw, A.B., Wheeler, E., Gomez, K.L., & Thompson, A. (2022). Trauma and Transcendence in Candidates’ Clinical Work with Children during the Double Pandemic of Covid 19 and Racism. Panel presented at the 2022 Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (SPPP) Annual Spring Meeting.
Hinshaw, A.B. (2021). I Don’t Know Why I Am Here and Therapy Has Never Helped: Using the Narcissistic Transference to Facilitate Growth. Continuing education presentation for the Iowa Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (IAPP).
Hinshaw, A.B., McWilliams, N., Thompson, A., Appollon, S., & Merson, M. (2021). Reckoning Psychoanalytic Training’s Relationship with Human Diversity: Candidate Outreach Committee Roundtable. Roundtable presented at the 2021 Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (SPPP) Annual Spring Meeting.
Hinshaw, A.B. (2020). Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A (Brief) Introduction. Invited guest lecture for the theories of counseling class at the University of Florida.
Hinshaw, A. B. & Kinser, J. C. (2019). Disrupting Cyclical Maladaptive Patterns in Group Psychotherapy. Continuing education presentation for the staff of the University Counseling Service at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA.
Hinshaw, A. B. (2018, 2019). Segovia: The Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy of a Spanish Female. Invited case presentation and discussion for the doctoral interns at the University Counseling Service at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA.
Hinshaw, A. B. (2017). Pale Narcissus: The Role of Primitive Narcissism in the Relationship between White Privilege Attitudes and Modern Racism (Doctoral dissertation, University of Missouri-Kansas City).
Hinshaw, A. B. (2017). Only connect: Being a psychoanalytic graduate student when it’s uncool. Paper presented at the 2017 Division of Psychoanalysis (Division 39) Annual Spring Meeting in New York, NY.
Ross, A. S., Hinshaw, A. B., & Murdock, N. L. (2016). Integrating the relational matrix: Attachment Style, differentiation of self, triangulation, and experiential avoidance. Contemporary Family Therapy, 38(4), 400-411.