Katie McCall, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Fellow

E-mail: kmccall@mail.utexas.edu

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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Penelope Frohlich, Ph.D.
Licensed clinical psychologist

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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.
Assistant Professor, The University of Vermont

E-mail: alessandra.rellini@uvm.edu
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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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