Biography - Karen C Rhines

Karen Clay Rhines earned a Bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from the Pennsylvania State University in 1993, with a major in Psychology and a minor in Women’s Studies. Upon graduation, she worked at the University of Pennsylvania’s Treatment Research Unit on several projects looking at substance abuse treatment. She left UPenn to pursue graduate training in substance abuse at Rutgers University, where she earned a Master’s degree in Psychology in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 2001. Her clinical training focused on the assessment and treatment of addictive disorders, especially in women, the anxiety disorders, and sexual disorders and dysfunction. She has been teaching full-time since 2001 and online since 2005.