Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel
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Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel, PhD
Assistant Professor
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Department of Psychology
Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and director of the Sail Lab-Laboratory for Research on Sexual and Intimate Life. She completed her doctorate in psychology at Université Laval and her postdoctorate at Université de Montréal. She is also a psychologist in good standing with the Ordre des Psychologues du Québec. Her research focuses on sexuality, couples and trauma, focusing mainly on the effects of interpersonal childhood trauma, sexual abuse and pornography use on the sexual well-being of couples. More specifically, she is interested in sexual violence experienced in the context of sports.