Patricia Perrin Hull, Ph.D.

Licensed Psychologist
OCD and Anxiety Treatment Center of Houston
Patricia Perrin Hull, Ph.D. received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Florida State University in 1984. She later completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Sid Richardson Institute for Preventive Medicine, at Methodist Hospital, in conjunction with Baylor College of Medicine. In 1997, she attended the Behavior Therapy Training Institute (BTTI) sponsored by the International Obsessive-Compulsive DisorderFoundation (IOCDF), and since then she has focused on treating individuals with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
Her practice is the OCD and Anxiety Treatment Center of Houston, where she specializes in treating OCD, anxiety disorders, and OCD related disorders, e.g., body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) (trichotillomania, i.e., hair pulling, skin picking, etc.). She also specializes in women’s mental health, in particular, in postpartum depression, postpartum OCD, and postpartum anxiety. She served from 2002-2018 on a committee with Mental Health America of Greater Houston called the Yates Children Memorial Fund, which is part of the Women’s Mental Health Initiative. The committee’s purpose was to educate the community about
Teaching and Training Experience
Dr. Hull has taught psychology for seven years at the college and
While on a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Preventive Medicine (IPM) at Methodist Hospital, she taught courses on stress management in the community and was on the committee that rewrote the stress management program for the IPM. She later co-taught, along with Baylor dietitians, courses in weight loss and weight maintenance in the Protein Sparing Modified Fast program. She continues to have a strong interest in healthy lifestyles, including weight loss, exercise, stress management, work-life balance, and in the benefit of exercise for the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders.
Specialties
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Anxiety disorders
- Women’s mental health (postpartum)
- Stress management
Education
- Ph.D. in Psychology from Florida State University
- Postdoctoral fellowship at the Sid Richardson Institute for Preventive Medicine, at Methodist Hospital, in conjunction with Baylor College of Medicine
- Behavior Therapy Training Institute (BTTI), specialized training through IOCDF, 1997
- Behavior Therapy Training Institute 2 (BTTI 2), specialized training through IOCDF, 2015

Personal Coaching
Dr. Hull is also a personal coach, trained through the Mentor Coach program, which advocates using the theoretical basis of Positive Psychology. The basic premise of Positive Psychology is that psychology should not only help individuals with disorders, but can also contribute to what goes right in life, that is, in order to create happy, satisfying, and meaningful lives. Read more on this service.