Raphaële Noël

Raphaële Noël (she/her) completed a research and practice doctorate in psychology at Université de Montréal after studying neuroscience and psychology in France. She practiced for 15 years as a child psychologist in the Montréal health network and has been in private practice for more than 20 years working with children and their parents, in particular with early childhood and perinatal issues. As a professor in the psychology department at Université du Québec à Montréal, she teaches clinical skills for children, clinical skills for adults, and contemporary perinatal issues. She is a researcher member of UQO’s Centre for Studies and Research on Family Intervention (CERIF) and her research examines parenting in intense situations, the transition to parenting, perinatal bereavement and assisted reproduction. She takes a systemic perspective and is also interested in third parties who assist with reproduction, their act of donation, and the children born from such donations. She is a co-investigator with the STORIES (Self, Transmission, Origins, Representations, and Identity among Donor-Conceived Teenagers and their FamiliES) research project, which falls under the programming of the Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties.