Raymond Hawkins, PhD

Ray Hawkins, Ph.D., ABPP (Clinical Psychology), received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975, after completing a one-year pre-doctoral internship at the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute. From 1975 to 1982, he was an assistant professor of clinical psychology at The University of Texas at Austin. In 1979, he co-founded the Austin Stress Clinic, the first private clinic in Austin to specialize in biofeedback and clinical health psychology. In 1982, Ray joined the Austin Regional Clinic as a staff psychologist, where he provided practicum supervision to UT clinical psychology students and continued his clinical research on addictive behaviors, Jungian personality types, chaos theory, and other behavioral health issues, including eating disorders and chronic pain. From 1998 to 2001, he served as the Director of the UT Clinical Psychology Training Clinic (UTCPTC). In 2011, he was appointed a Clinical Assistant Professor in the UT Psychology Dept., where he continues to conduct research, provide advanced clinical supervision, maintain the clinical database in the UTCPTC, as well as teach PSY 194Q (“History and Professional Issues in Psychology”). In 1998, Ray was appointed an adjunct professor in the Master of Counseling Program at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest. In 2004, he became a core faculty member in the School of Psychology at Fielding Graduate University, an APA approved doctoral program in clinical psychology. That same year he joined the New Life Institute where he currently serves as the Training Clinic Director and on the Board of Directors. Ray is also a founding board member (and current President) of the Lone Star Psychology Internship Consortium, serves on the boards of the Jung Society of Austin, and the Institute for Neurosciences and Consciousness Studies (where he is Director of Research). Ray's current clinical research interests are in individual differences in behavior, development, and personality, including developing new measures for determining psychotherapy outcome. He has co-edited two books and published numerous articles on addictive behaviors, cognitive-behavior therapy, and Jungian psychological type applications.