Queen's Logo Caroline F. Pukall Ph.D., C.Psych.
Associate Professor & Director, Sex Therapy Service
Department of Psychology
Queen's University
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Sexual Health Research Laboratory
Humphrey 236 & 237, Craine 121, 122, 126
Phone: (613) 533-3276
Email: shrl@queensu.ca


Graduate Students

Kelly Smith (MA, PhD in progress, Department of Psychology)

Investigating sensory and relationship functioning in women with vulvodynia
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Samantha Waxman (MA, PhD in progress, Department of Psychology)

Examining female sexual arousal and female sexual arousal disorder from a multidimensional perspective
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Katherine Sutton (MA, PhD in progress, Department of Psychology)

Assessing sensory functioning, psychosocial correlates, and brain activity in women with vulvodynia subtypes
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Corrie Goldfinger (MSc, PhD in progress, Department of Psychology)

A randomized comparison of individual cognitive-behavioural therapy and pelvic floor physiotherapy in the treatment of provoked vestibulodynia
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Stéphanie Boyer (MSc, PhD in progress, Department of Psychology)

Examining the relationship between sexual arousal and pain sensitivity and genital vasocongestion in women with provoked vestibulodynia
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Karen Blair (MSc, PhD in progress, Department of Psychology)

Longitudinal investigation of the role of social support for intimate relationships in same-sex and other-sex couples
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Emma Dargie (MSc in progress, Department of Psychology)

Vulvodynia: Neuropathic pain condition?
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Stéphanie Thibault-Gagnon (MSc in progress, School of Rehabilitation Therapy, co-supervised with Dr. Linda McLean)

Ultrasound imaging of the pelvic floor in women with and without vulvodynia
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Current Undergraduate Honors Students

Jen Brunet
Maeve Wickham


Past Graduate Students

Evelyne Gentilcore-Saulnier (MSc, School of Rehabilitation Therapy, co-supervised with Dr. Linda McLean)
Investigating contractile behavior of the painful pelvic floor and effects of pelvic floor physiotherapy on pelvic floor muscle function in women with provoked vestibulodynia


Current Research Assistants and Volunteers/Directed Lab Students

Nicole Campbell (coordinator)
Samia Hussein (coordinator)
Shannon Coyle
Melyssa Wright


Past Undergraduate Honors Students

Emma Dargie: Sexual and relationship satisfaction, intimacy, love, and communication in long distance dating relationships. (2008-9)

Stephanie Taillefer: The relationship between partner-response style, general and pain-specific anxiety, and avoidance behaviour in women with provoked vestibulodynia (2008-9)

Chris Upton: Examination of female sexual arousal to specific erotic stimuli (2008-9)

Clare Devlin: The roles of body image, pain catastrophizing, pain severity, and coping in women with vulvar pain (2007-8)

Shaina Rosenrot:
Pain anxiety, and sexual communication, satisfaction and esteem among women with provoked vestibulodynia (2007-8)

Kelsey Smart:
The impact of dyadic ajustment on body image, body exposure, and sexual esteem in same- and other-sex partnered individuals (2007-8)

Katherine Alexander:
The impact of outness on health, relationship satisfaction, and sexual satisfaction among LGB men and women (2006-7)

Laura Leong: General health status and sexual and relationship satisfaction among women with vulvar vestibultitis syndrome (2006-7)

Christina Yager: Relationship and sexual satisfaction among married and cohabiting heterosexual and same-sex couples (2005-6)

Nina Mafrici: The influence of sexual orientation on the relationship between body image and sexual satisfaction (2005-6)

Deanne Simms: Spouse solicitousness and couple functioning in chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (2004-5)