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Penelope Frohlich, Ph.D. Penny completed her undergraduate work in Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and entered the Clinical Psychology doctoral program at UT Austin in 1998. Throughout her graduate career she worked as a Lecturer and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin and Concordia University at Austin, and published eight peer reviewed articles and chapters on sexuality. She acquired her M.A. in Clinical Psychology in 2001 and completed her predoctoral internship at the Audie L. Murphy Veterans Hospital in San Antonio where she counseled male and female veterans with depression, anxiety, spinal cord injuries, sexual and combat-related post traumatic stress disorder, and sexual dysfunction. She acquired her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003. Currently, Penny is a clinical psychologist practicing in the Austin area, offering individual psychotherapy, couples therapy, and sex therapy to adult clients. Her primary areas of expertise include Depression, Anxiety, Addiction/recovery, Trauma, Relationship issues, and Sexual dysfunction. |
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Alessandra Rellini, Ph.D. E-mail: alessandra.rellini@uvm.edu Ale acquired her B.A. in Psychology from Whittier College in California in 1997, and her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in Alameda, California. She entered the Clinical Psychology doctoral program at the University of Texas at Austin in 2001. Alessandra has recently completed her predoctoral internship at Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital/Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven Connecticut, and acquired her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. Ale recently joined the faculty at the University of Vermont as an Assistant Professor of Psychology within the Clinical Psychology area. Her primary research interest is the psychophysiology and treatment of sexual dysfunction in a variety of populations. She is also interested in cultural differences in sexual function, cognitive processes and sexual function, as well as methodological issues of clinical trials for sexual medicine. Currently, the focus of her lab is the sexual problems of survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA). She is working on the development and testing of psychological interventions to help CSA survivors with sexual problems to improve their intimate relationships and their ability to develop. |
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Katie McCall, Ph.D. E-mail: mccallkatie@gmail.com Katie complete her undergraduate work at the University of Texas at Austin, and in 2001 joined the lab and began her doctoral work in clinical psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. In July of 2007 Katie successfully defended her dissertation examining sexual schemas in women, which was funded by the Social Science Research Council of the Ford Foundation. Katie completing her predoctoral internship at the Portland VA Medical Center in Portland, Oregon, and acquired her Ph.D. in clinical psychology in the summer of 2008. Currently, Katie is in the process of completing a 2-year postdoctorate fellowship in neuropsychology at the Portland VA Medical Center, in which she assesses and treats patients with traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder. |
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Annie Bradford, Ph.D. E-mail: abradfor@bcm.edu Annie joined the lab in 1999 as an undergraduate research assistant. She received her B.A. in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000 and returned to the lab in 2002 as a doctoral student in the clinical psychology program. Her dissertation focused on placebo response in the treatment of women's sexual dysfunction. Annie completed her predoctoral internship at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine in 2009. She has accepted an appointment as a postdoctoral research fellow at Baylor College of Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, where she plans to continue her work in sexual dysfunction and mental health treatment outcome research.
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Brooke Seal, Ph.D. E-mail: bseal@mail.utexas.edu Brooke was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She graduated with a B.A. in psychology from the University of British Columbia in 2002, and began her graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 2003. She completed her predoctoral internship with Vancouver Coastal Health in British Columbia, during which she was involved in the assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders, sexual difficulties, eating disorders, and concurrent disorders. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology in the summer of 2009. Her research interests have included the role of self-awareness in sexual functioning, the relationship between body image and sexuality, and, recently, the impact of cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness psychoeducational sessions on anxiety and distress during sexual activity. She has presented her research at conferences worldwide and has published several research articles in the areas of sexual function and dysfunction. Brooke has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Centre of Vancouver, where she will conduct assessment, treatment, and research with Drs. John Wagner and Alex Chapman, specializing in dialectical behaviour therapy for adolescents and adults. She is also involved in a sexual health assessment, treatment, and research program at Vancouver General Hospital, and teaches an empirically supported treatment course at Simon Fraser University.
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