Maude Massé-Pfister

Maude (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology (D.Psy) at Université de Montreal since September 2021, under the supervision of Dr. Sophie Bergeron. Before starting her studies in psychology, Maude completed a bachelor's degree in social work in April 2019 at the same university. She began her involvement in Dr. Sophie Bergeron's Sexual Health Laboratory in the fall of 2019. Her research interests include emotional regulation, self-compassion, sexual desire and sexual distress in intimate relationships. Since the fall of 2024, Maude has been doing a clinical internship at the CLSC of Saint-Pascal, where she works with adults with mental health issues, and at the Clinique sans-murs at the Centre hospitalier régional du Grand-Portage in Rivière-du-Loup, where she intervenes in the treatment of inviduals with personality disorders, in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region.

Publications

•  Bőthe, B., Vaillancourt-Morel, M.-P., Dion, J., Paquette, M.-M., Massé-Pfister, M., Tóth-Király, I., & Bergeron, S. (2022). A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents’ Pornography Use Frequency, Motivations, and Problematic Use Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51(1), 139‑156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-02282-4