Navigating the postpartum period: Exploring associations between body image, intimacy and relationship satisfaction in new parent couples
By Alice Bourne This blog is a summary of our published article: Fitzpatrick, E. T., Rosen, N. O., Kim, J. J., Kolbuszewska, M. T., Schwenck, G. C. g, & Dawson, S. J. (2024). Sexual satisfaction mediates daily associations between body satisfaction and relationship satisfaction in new parent couples. Body Image, 51, 1740-1445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2024.101810 Sex & relationships in […]
Lara Seefeld, PhD
Dr. Lara Seefeld joined the CaSH lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2025, following completion of her PhD in Perinatal Psychology at the Technical University Dresden, Germany. She has published on the importance of parents’ subjective birth experience for their postpartum mental health, parent-child bonding, and couples’ relationship satisfaction, for which she has mostly used dyadic data […]
Why pleasing others can hurt: Sexual activity for external validation affects men with lower desire
By Andronika Kelso and Grace Wang This blog is a summary of our published article: McClung, E., Rosen, N. O., Dubé, J. P., Wang, G. A., & Corsini-Munt, S. (2023b). Motivation when desire is low: Associations between sexual motivation and sexual intimacy, sexual satisfaction, and sexual distress for men with hypoactive sexual desire disorder […]
The power of compassion for new parents: The role of self-compassion and compassionate love in sexual and relational well-being
By Alice Bourne This blog is a summary of our published article: Dawson, S. J., Fitzpatrick, E. T., Farm, G. H.-J., & Rosen, N. O. (2023). Self-compassion and compassionate love are positively associated with expectant and new parent couples sexual and relational well-being. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 52, 3393–3404 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02658-8 The perinatal period […]
What to expect when you’re expecting: What is the role of perinatal sex education?
By Audrey Chu This blog is a summary of our published article: Fitzpatrick, E. T., Rosen, N. O., & Dawson, S. J. (2023). What to expect when you’re expecting: Perinatal sexual education is linked with couples’ sexual well-being in pregnancy and the postpartum. Journal of Sex Research, 60(9), 1269-1282. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2023.2193570 The period from pregnancy […]
Greta Jang
I am excited to join the CaSH lab as a Clinical Psychology student. I completed my BA in psychology at UBC where I first developed an interest in emotion regulation and interpersonal function in the context of suicide. As a grad student, I am interested in exploring dimensions of interpersonal emotion regulation as a mechanism […]
Alice Girouard, PhD
Alice had joined the CaSH Lab in September of 2024 as a postdoctoral fellow Bio and photo to come!
Quinn MacDonald
I began working with the CaSH lab as a volunteer in January of 2023, later that year I became an honours student. I then graduated with my Bachelor of Arts with honours in Psychology and minor in Film Studies in 2024. I continued working with the lab after winning a research award, and transitioned into […]
STORK Pilot Study
We were seeking couples who are up to 26 weeks pregnant to participate in the STORK pilot study (i.e., first trial): Supporting the Transition to Parenthood through Online Sex and Relationship Knowledge. What is STORK? The first online couple-based program designed to enhance knowledge about changes to sexuality during pregnancy and postpartum and skills to cope with these changes. STORK was […]
What does a pregnancy loss mean for sex?
By David Allsop This blog is a summary of our published article: Allsop, D. B., Huberman, J. S., Cohen, E., Bagnell, K. B., Péloquin, K., Cockwell, H., & Rosen, N. O. (2023). What does a pregnancy loss mean for sex? Comparing sexual well-being between couples with and without a recent loss. Archives of Sexual Behavior, […]
