Faculty Team

Catherine Panzarella, PhD

Dr. Catherine Panzarella joined the UT faculty in Fall 2019 as a clinical professor to direct the Psychology Training Clinic and Advanced Clinical Practica Placements. She has been a University-based training clinic director since 2007. Dr. Panzarella is a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and certified as a cognitive therapist, trainer and consultant.

Dr. Panzarella’s teaching interests include development, delivery and evaluation of behavioral health services and multiculturalism. The Psychology Department at Temple University nominated her twice for teaching excellence awards. She is dedicated to serving the University, local community and field. As clinic director at Temple University, she served on several Clinical Area, Department, College and University committees including the Faculty Senate Budget Advisory Committee for several years, most recently as Vice Chair. She also was co-faculty advisor for a student led group, Psychology Graduate Students for Inclusivity whose founding was inspired by Dr. Panzarella’s graduate course on multicultural issues in psychology. Dr. Panzarella also served the International Association of Psychology Training Clinics as Chair of the Business Models Committee.

Dr. Panzarella’s earlier career focused on development, implementation and evaluation of programs for persons with mental health and substance use disorders who are socio-economically disadvantaged. Previously, she directed youth and family programs in four Pennsylvania counties for the largest chapter of Mental Health America and headed up an initiative for program evaluation and performance-based contracting for the City of Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health, and served on the Philadelphia Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Commission for children’s mental health.

Dr. Panzarella’s career has included numerous peer reviewed publications and conference presentations.

Jane Gray, PhD

Jane Simpson Gray is the director of clinical training for the School/Clinical Child and Counseling Psychology doctoral programs and an assistant professor of practice in the Department of Educational Psychology at UT Austin. She is also an affiliate faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Dell Medical School. Dr. Gray received her doctorate in school psychology from UT Austin. She completed her doctoral psychology internship at the Children’s Hospital Boston and postdoctoral fellowship at Judge Baker Children’s Center, Harvard Medical School, where she studied the dissemination of evidence-based practice for children’s mental health and specialized in training mental health professionals in best practices. She has been with UT Austin since 2008, first as the Director of Psychology Training for the Texas Child Study Center/Dell Children’s Medical Center, then an affiliate of the Department of Educational Psychology. She joined the core faculty of the School and Counseling Psychology PhD programs as Director of Clinical Training in 2018.

Dr. Gray is a practicing psychologist trained in a variety of approaches to treat social, emotional, behavioral and health problems across the lifespan. In her role as a training director, she teaches clinically-focused courses and prepares students for psychology internship training. Dr. Gray’s interests include motivational interviewing, clinical interventions for childhood behavioral and internalizing disorders and pediatric health concerns, and preparing students for work in integrated settings with underserved populations.

Dr. Gray has developed and implemented individual and group interventions for a variety of childhood emotional, behavioral, and health concerns. She has extensive experience as a clinical supervisor, training director, and trainer of evidence-based treatment protocols (e.g. CBT, Motivational Interviewing) for community providers. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers.

Dr. Gray has been awarded multiple training grants, including Graduate Psychology Education awards from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). She is also a co-principal investigator and a training and clinical lead on additional HRSA awards that support the UT Integrated Behavioral Health Scholars program, a cross-campus collaborative that aims to train students in psychology, psychiatry, social work and nursing to provide evidence-based, culturally competent integrated care.