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. 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 Disorder Foundation (IOCDF), and since then she has focused on treating individuals with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. In 2015, she attended the BTTI-2 Advanced Forum, also sponsored by IOCDF.
Dr. Hull’s practice is the OCD and Anxiety Treatment Center of Houston, where for over 27 years, she has specialized in treating OCD, anxiety disorders (e.g., panic disorder, social anxiety), and OCD related disorders such as body-focused repetitive behaviors (e.g., hair-pulling, skin-picking). 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 postpartum illness. This committee co-sponsored the Postpartum Support International conference in Houston in 2007, where she presented on postpartum OCD.
Teaching and Training Experience
Dr. Hull has taught psychology for seven years at the college and graduate school level. Over the span of her career, she has held a particular interest in training professionals. She has given numerous presentations at conferences, including many IOCDF conferences, the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, the Texas Psychological Association, the Houston Psychological Association, the Fort Bend Psychological Association, the Trichotillomania Learning Center, the Counseling Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, Postpartum Support International, and the Mental Health Association of Greater Houston’s Conference on Women’s Mental Health. She has given presentations to faculty of Baylor College of Medicine, to the Rice University Counseling Center, and has given full day trainings on two occasions in CBT for OCD at the Universidad de Monterrey, in Monterrey, Mexico. She is currently an assistant clinical faculty member at Baylor College of Medicine, where she supervises psychology residents in the Baylor OCD Program.
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 be interested in healthy lifestyles and in the benefit of exercise for 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
