Team

Mylène Desrosiers (she/her) is the research coordinator for the Sexual Health Laboratory. She has been with the lab since 2003. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Université Laval and a Masters of Arts in Sexology from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).

Publications

• Lambert, B., Desrosiers, M., Chagnon, M., & Lepage, Y. (2013). Sexual behaviors in women with primary and secondary provoked vestibulodynia: A controlled study. Advances in Sexual Medicine, 3, 60-65. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/asm.2013.33010
• Lambert, B., Bergeron, S., Desrosiers, M., & Lepage, Y. (2012). Dyspareunie primaire et secondaire : Contrôle clinique et chirurgical multimodal. Sexologies: European Journal of Sexual Health, 21, 29-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sexol.2011.09.003
• Lambert, B., Bergeron, S., Desrosiers, M., & Lepage, Y. (2012). Introital primary and secondary dyspareunia: Multimodal clinical and surgical control. Sexologies: European Journal of Sexual Health, 21, 9-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sexol.2011.10.001
• Desrosiers, M., Bergeron, S., Meana, M., Leclerc, B., Binik, Y. M., & Khalifé, S. (2008). Psychosexual characteristics of vestibulodynia couples: Partner solicitousness and hostility are associated with pain. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 5, 418-427. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-6109.2007.00705.x

Catherine (she/her) holds a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi and has been a Ph.D. student in Clinical Psychology at the Université de Montréal since September 2022, under the supervision of Sophie Bergeron, Ph.D. Her research interests focus on romantic relationships, more specifically in relational and sexual well-being. Catherine is the recipient of a Canada Graduate Scholarship — Doctoral program for 2024-2027.

Publications

• Hamel, C., Rodrigue, C., Clermont, C., Hébert, M., Paquette, L., & Dion, J. (2024). Alexithymia as a mediator of the associations between child maltreatment and internalizing and externalizing behaviors in adolescence. Scientific reports, 14(1), 6359. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-56909-2
• Dion, J., Hamel, C., Prévost, B., Bergeron-Leclerc, C., Pouliot, E., Maltais, D., Grenier, J., Dubé, M., Ouellet-Plamondon, C., & Vaillancourt-Morel, M. P. (2023). Stressed and distressed: how is the COVID-19 pandemic associated with sexual frequency, sexual satisfaction, and relationship satisfaction? The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 20(2), 152–160. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsxmed/qdac041
• Dion, J., Hamel, C., Clermont, C., Blackburn, M. È., Hébert, M., Paquette, L., Lalande, D., & Bergeron, S. (2022). Changes in Canadian adolescent well-being since the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of prior child maltreatment. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(16), 10172. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610172

Jessica (she/her) holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences (2018) and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology (2023) from the Université de Montréal, in addition to a Master’s in Project Management from the Université du Québec à Montréal (2020). She began her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the Université de Montréal in September 2023, under the supervision of Dr. Bergeron. She has a strong interest in sexual shame and sexual well-being, as well as sexual orientation and gender diversity. Jessica is the recipient of a Canada Graduate Scholarship — Master’s program for 2024 — and a Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Société et Culture (FRQ-SC) scholarship recipient (2024-2026).

Publications

• Bouchard, M., Lecomte, T., Cloutier, B., Herrera-Roberge, J., & Potvin, S. (2022). Dropout rates in psychosocial interventions for people with both severe mental illness and substance misuse: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 842329. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.842329

Silke (she/her) has been a Ph.D. student in Clinical Psychology at Université de Montreal since September 2021. Her research interests include attachment, intimacy, and stress reactivity in heterosexual and sexual/gender minority couples. Silke is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research scholarship recipient for 2023-2026.

Publications

• Audet, J. S., Jacmin-Park, S., Kheloui, S., Gravel, C., Juster, R. P., & Aardema, F. (2024). COVID-19 related stress and fears of contamination: the impact of feared self-perceptions. Current Psychology, 43, 16859–16870.
• Péloquin, K., Arpin, V., Jacmin-Park, S., Beaulieu, N., & Brassard, A. (2024). A dyadic study of attachment, coping, and quality of life in couples seeking fertility treatment. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 1-16.
• Jacmin-Park, S., Rossi, M., Dumont, L., Lupien, S. J., & Juster, R. P. (2022). Mental Health and Social Support of Sexual and Gender Diverse People from Québec, Canada During the COVID-19 Crisis. LGBT health, 9(3), 151-160.
• Longpré-Poirier, C., Dougoud, J., Jacmin-Park, S., Moussaoui, F., Vilme, J., Desjardins, G., Cartier, L., Cipriani, E., Kerr, P., LePage, C., & Juster, R. P. (2022). Sex and gender and allostatic mechanisms of cardiovascular risk and disease. Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 38(12), 1812-1827.
• Bourdon, O., Rossi, M., Larocque, O., Jacmin-Park, S., Pullen Sansfaçon, A., Ouellet-Morin, I., & Juster, R. P. (2021). + Fièr: une application mobile pour aider les jeunes issus de la communauté LGBTQ+ et leur famille. Santé mentale au Québec, 46(1), 229-249.
• Kheloui, S., Rossi, M., Jacmin-Park, S., Larocque, O., Vallée, M., Kerr, P., Bourdon, O., & Juster, R. P. (2021). Psychoneuroendocrine protocol to comprehensively study sexually dimorphic cognition. Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 6, 100050.

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

Marie-Michèle (she/her) has been a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology at the Université de Montréal since September 2019. Her research interests focus on sexual subjectivity, sexual behavior, sexting and sexual well-being. Marie-Michèle is a Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Société et Culture (FRQ-SC) scholarship recipient (2019-2021 and 2022-2025). She also received a merit Scholarship from the Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales at Université de Montréal.

Publications

• Paquette, M-M., Bergeron, S., Bigras, N., Koós, M., Nagy, L., Kraus, S. W., Demetrovics, Z., Potenza, M. N., Ballester-Arnal, R., Batthyány, D., Billieux, J., Briken, P., Burkauskas, J., Cárdenas-López, G., Carvalho, J., Castro-Calvo, J., Chen, L., Ciocca, G., Corazza, O., . . . Bőthe, B. (Under Revision). Sexual satisfaction across cultures, genders, languages, and sexual orientations: Validation of the Global Measure of Sexual Satisfaction (GMSEX). Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.
• Paquette, M-M., Dion, J., Bőthe, B., O’Sullivan, L., Perrier Léonard, D., & Bergeron, S. (2023). How does sexual subjectivity vary on the basis of gender and sexual orientation? Validation of the Short Sexual Subjectivity Inventory (SSSI-11) in cisgender, heterosexual and sexual and gender minority adolescents. Archives of Sexual Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02675-7
• Paquette, M-M., Bőthe, B., Dion, J., Girouard, A., & Bergeron, S. (2023). Can I love my body even if it doesn't look like the porn stars’? Longitudinal associations between pornography use frequency and body appreciation in a diverse sample of adolescents. Archives of Sexual Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02679-3
• Paquette, M-M., Dion, J., Bőthe, B., & Bergeron, S. (2022). Validation of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 in cisgender, heterosexual and sexual and gender diverse adolescents. Body Image, 43, 193-204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.09.001
• Martin-Storey, A., Lapointe, A., Girouard, A., Paquette, M-M., & Bergeron, S. (2022). The online environments of sexual and gender minority youth:
  Contexts of risk and resilience. The Journal of Family Strengths, 21(1), Article 7. https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/jfs/vol21/iss1/7
• Paquette, M.-M., Dion, J., Bőthe, B., Girouard, A., & Bergeron, S. (2022). Heterosexual, cisgender and gender and sexually diverse adolescents’ sexting behaviors: The role of body appreciation. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 51(2), 278-290. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01568-z
• 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

Delphine (she/her) has been a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology (D.Psy) at Université de Montréal since September 2021, under the supervision of Dr. Sophie Bergeron. Prior to her doctorate, Delphine completed a Major in Psychology and a Minor in Human Services at SUNY Potsdam University (NY). She began her involvement as a research assistant in Dr. Sophie Bergeron's Sexual Health Laboratory in the fall of 2020. Her research interests include intimacy, sexual desire, and sexual well-being.

Publications

• Paquette, M-M., Dion, J., Bőthe, B., O’Sullivan, L., Perrier Léonard, D., & Bergeron, S. (2023). How does sexual subjectivity vary on the basis of gender and sexual orientation? Validation of the Short Sexual Subjectivity Inventory (SSSI-11) in cisgender, heterosexual and sexual and gender minority adolescents. Archives of Sexual Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02675-7

Nevena (she/her) has been a Ph.D. student in Clinical Psychology at Université de Montréal since September 2024. Her research interests include sexual communication, relational and sexual well-being, and the treatment of sexual dysfunctions. Nevena is the recipient of scholarships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for 2024-2025 and from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Société et Culture for 2025-2026.

Publications

• Bigras, N., Popova, N., Pedneault, L., Brassard, A. et Bergeron, S. (2024). Sexual well-being of partnered adults and couples over 60: A scoping review. Sexual Medicine Reviews, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1093/sxmrev/qeae037

Arianne (she/her) has been a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology (D.Psy) at the Université de Montréal since September 2023, under the supervision of Dr. Sophie Bergeron. Prior to her doctoral studies, Arianne completed a Bachelor's degree in psychology in 2020 at the same university. She began her involvement as a research assistant in Dr. Sophie Bergeron's Sexual Health Study Laboratory in the summer of 2021. Her research interests include sexual desire, intimacy and both sexual and relational satisfaction.

Lydia (she/her) started her Master’s in psychology at Université de Montréal in September 2023 under the supervision of Dr. Sophie Bergeron (UdeM) and Dr. Noémie Bigras (UQO). She has been a part of the Sexual Health Laboratory as a research assistant since the fall of 2021. Her research interests focus on romantic relationships and sexuality, including sexual communication and sexual satisfaction.

Publications

• Bigras, N., Popova, N., Pedneault, L., Brassard, A. et Bergeron, S. (2024). Sexual well-being among partnered adults and couples over 60: A scoping review. Sexual Medicine Reviews, (00), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1093/sxmrev/qeae037

Eugénie (she/her) is a third-year undergraduate student in psychology at Université de Montréal. She has been a research assistant in the laboratory since Fall 2023. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Honors Literature and Creative Writing at Concordia University. She is interested in relationship and sexual satisfaction, as well as communication within couples, and her goal is to pursue graduate studies in psychology.

Jeanne (she/her) is a second year undergraduate student in psychology at the Université de Montréal. She has been a research assistant for the Sexual Health Laboratory since winter 2024. Her research interests include psychopathology, intimacy and couple communication. Her goal is to pursue a doctorate in clinical psychology.

Elizabeth (she/her) recently completed her bachelor's degree in psychology at the Université de Montréal. Since the summer of 2024, she has been a research assistant at the Sexual Health Laboratory. During her bachelor's degree, Elizabeth gained research experience in various fields, but developed a particular interest for the subjects of attachment, marital satisfaction and sexual health. Her goal is to continue her graduate studies in psychology.

Alexia (she/her) is a second-year undergraduate student in psychology at Université de Montréal. She has been a research assistant for the Sexual Health Laboratory since fall 2024. During her studies, Alexia has gained experience in intervention and research. She is particularly interested in child development, marital and sexual satisfaction, and psychopathology. Her goal is to continue her graduate studies in psychology.

Corinne (she/her) is a first-year undergraduate student in psychology at the Université de Montréal since September 2024. She has been a research assistant at the Sexual Health Study Laboratory since summer 2024. Her areas of interest are sexual satisfaction in couples and individuals, types of attachment, and childhood trauma.

Audrey-Ann (she/her) is a third-year undergraduate student in psychology at the Université de Montréal. Since the summer of 2023, she has been a research assistant at the Sexual Health Laboratory. She will be pursuing the Honors program under the supervision of Dr. Sophie Bergeron during the 2024-2025 academic year. Her research interests include relational and sexual satisfaction, attachment, and psychopathology. Her goal is to pursue graduate studies in clinical psychology.