What really matters? Research priorities for women & gender-diverse people with SIAD

By Maddy Torres This blog is a summary of our published article: Shimizu, J. P. K., Bergeron, S., Schwenck, G. C., Huberman, J. S., & Rosen, N. O. (2024). What should we be studying? Research priorities according to women and gender-diverse individuals with sexual interest/arousal disorder and their partners. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 21(11). https://doi.org/10.1093/jsxmed/qdae121 About […]

How you respond to “not tonight” matters, too: Partner responses to sexual rejection and sexual and relationship well-being in couples coping with low desire

By Grace Schwenck   This blog is a summary of our published article: Schwenck, G. C., Bergeron, S., Huberman, J. S., Impett, E. A., Oliveira, H., & Rosen, N. O. (2024). Daily and prospective associations between responses to sexual rejection and sexual well-being and relationship satisfaction in couples coping with Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder. Archives of […]

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 […]

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 […]