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 from large epidemiological cohort studies. During her fellowship, Lara is examining predictors of new parents’ sexual well-being following a prevention program to elucidate whether all couples benefit equally from it. She is especially looking forward to broadening her expertise in the CaSH lab by shifting her focus to another key aspect of parents’ mental and relationship health – their sexual well-being – and applying new study designs, such as randomized controlled trials.
