Post-traumatic growth coach. Trauma is a reality of life; post-traumatic growth is our birthright.
As the second oldest of five brothers raised in an abusive religious home, Joseph Daniel Hendrix is deeply acquainted with childhood trauma and religious trauma. In August 2003, while Hendrix was pursuing a bachelor's degree in sociology at the University of North Alabama, one of his teenage brothers was unjustly incarcerated in rural Alabama after a physical altercation with their abusive religio
us father. A few months after he successfully advocated for his brother's release from Eufaula Youth Center, Hendrix enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he served in the infantry before completing officer candidate school (OCS) in 2008 and joining the military police corps. In 2011, Hendrix deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he served with a Security Force Assistance Team (SFAT) as an intelligence mentor, trained Governor Tooryalai Wesa's personal security detail (PSD), and conducted trauma-informed law enforcement operations after the assassination of Kandahar City's major, Ghulam Haider Hamidi. In 2013, Hendrix commanded a military police unit in the Middle East. Since leaving the military in 2014, Hendrix has exposed child abuse within religious organizations from New York City to Pasadena, California, investigated the mistreatment of youth in our nation's detained youth, advocated for the release of incarcerated juveniles in Los Angeles, and examined state-sanctioned killing of children. Hendrix earned a master's in international peace and conflict resolution while serving in the U.S. Army, invested three years studying trauma and post-traumatic growth while obtaining a Master of Social Work (MSW) from USC, and studied the religious roots of trauma while pursuing a master's in religious studies at MSMU. Additionally, he obtained this intellectual knowledge while serving in war zones, juvenile detention centers, courtrooms, and traumatized communities from Afghanistan to Los Angeles. Hendrix is sharing his wisdom and lessons learned in one-on-one coaching sessions. Session are based on the needs of the individual and can focus on childhood trauma, military trauma, religious trauma, scapegoat trauma, military trauma, collective trauma, intergenerational trauma, and vicarious trauma.
