Julia Babcock, Ph.D.

Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Couples Therapy

• Intimate Partner Violence
• Couples Therapy
• Psychopathy, Borderline and Antisocial Personality Disorder

Matthew W. Gallagher, Ph.D.

Professor

• Transdiagnostic treatments (e.g. the Unified Protocol) for PTSD and anxiety disorders
• Mechanisms of change of empirically supported treatments
• How positive thinking (e.g., hope, optimism, self-efficacy) promotes well-being and provides resilience to PTSD and other anxiety disorders
• Identifying the causes and components of positive mental health and how mental health relates to mental illness
• Measurement, methodology, meta-analysis, and modeling longitudinal trajectories of change

Lorra Garrey, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Culturally informed behavioral health interventions 
• Smoking cessation
• Minority health

John P. Vincent, Ph.D.

Professor and Adjunct clinical faculty member, Baylor College of Medicine

• Cognitive Behavior Therapy
• Forensic Psychology
• Marriage and Family Therapy
• Ethics and Mental Health Law

Rheeda L. Walker, Ph.D.

Professor

• Depression and Suicide
• Sociocultural determinants of resilience and coping
• Cross-cultural methods

Michael J. Zvolensky, Ph.D.

Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

• Risk and Maintenance Factors for Anxiety Disorders
• Substance Use Disorders Comorbidity with Anxiety Disorders
• Role of Physical Health and Health Behaviors (e.g., aerobic exercise) in Anxiety Disorders
• Health Disparities