Dr. Raylene B. Statz

Dr. Statz came to UMHB in 1989 from the University of Texas at Tyler.  As an Assistant Professor in the UMHB Department of Psychology, she taught Personality Theory, Theories of Counseling, and Abnormal Psychology at the undergraduate level.  At the graduate level she taught Theories of Counseling, Advanced Psychopathology, Wechsler Testing, and Career Development. She became the Director of the Graduate Counseling and Psychology Programs in 1997, at which time the Graduate Counseling and Psychology Programs separated from undergraduate psychology to become its own entity, housed in the UMHB Graduate School. Now a full professor, Dr. Statz teaches only graduate courses and serves as Director of all graduate counseling and psychology programs.  The Graduate Counseling and Psychology Programs have grown considerably under her leadership, and in 2004, the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program (formerly the Community Counseling Program) was accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP), a national accrediting body.  In her career Dr. Statz has worked as a public school teacher and counselor, a community college counselor, teacher, and administrator, as executive administrator of a community health agency, and spent over twenty years as a private practitioner in individual counseling and marriage and family therapy. She believes in the positive impact of the mental health field on our society and is passionate about teaching students to become successful and ethical practitioners.