Natasha Zippan


Master's student

Department of Psychology

Queen's University

Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)

Natasha received her BA in Psychology with High Distinction from UBC and is currently a clinical psychology grad student at Queen’s University, working under the supervision of Dr. Meredith Chivers. She is working towards becoming a clinical psychologist specializing in sex research. Her clinical interests are sexual health, sexual dysfunctions, compulsive sexual behaviour, paraphilias, chronic illness, body dysmorphia, and depression/suicide. She has a particular interest in women's health and sexuality. Natasha has also been a graphic and digital designer for over 25 years and helped to develop Dr. Lori Brotto’s online intervention for female sexual dysfunction, eSense, in a professional capacity. For the last five years, she also worked as a Research Assistant and Study Coordinator at UBCSHR, investigating the usability of eSense as well as acting as a Treatment Navigator for the program.


Area of Research Expertise
Sexuality; Gender; Sexual dysfunction; Body dysmorphia; Psychopathology

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.


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