Associate Professor, Psychologist

I am a licensed psychologist in Wisconsin specializing in couple and family therapy. My scholarship is designed to promote the health and well-being of couples and families, using a social justice framework to guide my work.

My research program encompasses three primary areas of inquiry. The first line of my research investigates the links between mental health and relationship processes among couples, with a particular emphasis on the ways these factors predict treatment process and outcome in psychotherapy. My second line of research explores patterns of client and therapist behavior that are associated with successful treatment in individual, couple, and family psychotherapy. The final line of my research explores the relational and psychological well-being of military couples and families.

My research has been funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Foundation. I serve on the editorial board of several academic journals, including Family Process, Psychotherapy, and Psychotherapy Research.

I teach a variety of courses at the master’s level (family counseling, internship in clinical mental health counseling) and at the doctoral level (intermediate and advanced statistics, measurement and evaluation). I enjoy mentoring students in the scientist – practitioner model as they begin their professional careers.

I received my undergraduate degree in psychology and theology from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and my doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. I also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in couple and family psychology at The Family Institute at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Dr. Knobloch-Fedders will take on a new counseling psychology doctoral student for Fall 2025.

Recent Publications and/or Presentations

• Knobloch-Fedders, LM., Quirk, K., & Knobloch, L.K. (in press). Relational uncertainty and dyadic synchrony within the interactions of couples. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
• Knobloch, L.K., Knobloch-Fedders, L.M., Yorgason, J., Wehrman, E.C., & Monk, J.K. (2022). Trajectories of relational turbulence and affectionate communication across the post-deployment transition. Communication Monographs, 89(2) , 189 – 210.
• Grau, P.P., Melchert, T.P., Garnier-Villarreal, M., Knobloch-Fedders, L.M., & Wetterneck, C.T. (2021). Change in self-compassion, psychological inflexibility, and interpersonal courage in intensive PTSD treatment: A latent growth curve analysis. Mindfulness, 12(12) , 2983 – 2996.
• Knobloch, L.K., Knobloch-Fedders, L.M., Yorgason, J., Basinger, E.D., Abendschein, B., & McAninch, K.G. (2021). Suspicion about a partner’s deception and trust as roots of relational uncertainty during the post-deployment transition. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(3) , 912 – 934.
• Smith, T.W., Baron, C.E., Caska-Wallace, C.M., Knobloch-Fedders, L.M., Renshaw, K.D., & Uchino, B.N. (2021). PTSD in veterans, couple behavior, and cardiovascular response during marital conflict. Emotion, 21(3) , 478 – 488.
• Knobloch-Fedders, L.M., Knobloch, L.K., Scott, S., & Fiore, H. (2020). Relationship changes of military couples during reintegration: A longitudinal analysis. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 37(7) , 2145 – 2165.
• Knobloch-Fedders, L.M., & Wilson, S.J. (2020). Interpersonal behavior in couple therapy: Concurrent and prospective associations with depressive symptoms and relationship distress. Psychotherapy Research, 30(2) , 183 – 194.
• Knobloch, L.K., Knobloch-Fedders, L.M., & Yorgason, J.B. (2019). Mental health symptoms and the reintegration difficulty of military couples following deployment: A longitudinal application of the relational turbulence model. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 75(4) , 742 – 765.
• Knobloch, L.K., Knobloch-Fedders, L.M., & Yorgason, J.B. (2018). Communication of military couples during deployment predicting generalized anxiety upon reunion. Journal of Family Psychology, 32(1) , 12 – 21.
• Knobloch, L.K., Knobloch-Fedders, L.M., Yorgason, J.B., Ebata, A.T., & McGlaughlin, P.C. (2017). Military children’s difficulty with reintegration after deployment: A relational turbulence model perspective. Journal of Family Psychology, 31(5) , 542 – 552.
• Knobloch-Fedders, L.M., Caska-Wallace, C.M., Smith, T.W., & Renshaw, K. (2017). Battling on the home front: Posttraumatic stress disorder and conflict behavior among military couples. Behavior Therapy, 48(2), 247 – 261.
• Knobloch-Fedders, L.M., Critchfield, K.L., & Staab, E. (2017). Informative disagreements: Associations between relationship distress, depression, and discrepancy in interpersonal perception within couples. Family Process, 56(2), 459 – 475.