Co-President
Debora T. Bolter, Ph.D. 

Debora T. Bolter is a clinical psychologist who offers adult individual therapy, couple therapy, and supervision.  After clinical training at Beth Israel Hospital and Children's Hospital 1991-1993 and a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University Health Services, she split her time between private practice and group practices for many years and now maintains a full-time private practice in Brookline with an emphasis on psychodynamic and relational approaches.  Her research and clinical work with couples experiencing infertility led her to seek additional training in couple therapy from PCFINE in 2003, and she particularly enjoys the way that work with couples can be both especially knotty and especially satisfying.  She is a firm believer that our work is deepened and enlivened by having a community of colleagues to learn from and grow with, to seek support from and sometimes disagree with, and to share our uncertainties and our joys as therapists — and she hopes that other clinicians too might find a community in PCFINE.

Co-President

Magdalena Fosse, Psy.D., Ph.D.

Magdalena Fosse is a clinical psychologist and sexologist, certified sex therapist, and author in a private practice in Wellesley, MA. She holds graduate degrees from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, Oslo University in Norway, Harvard University, William James College, and Modern Sex Therapy Institutes in the US. In her work, she integrates psychodynamic theory, existential therapy, and interpersonal neurobiology with body-oriented experiential approaches. She also offers services to patients interested in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) and the integration of psychedelic medicines with therapeutic exploration. Magdalena’s clinical and conceptual interest is in the treatment of individuals and couples who struggle with emotional, sexual, and psychospiritual disconnect. Her particular expertise is in polyamory and consensual nonmonogamy. Her publications, including The Many Faces of Polyamory: Longing and Belonging in Concurrent Relationships, reflect her passion and interest in the intersection of normative and non-normative approaches to love and life and the lessons we can learn from them. Website: www.drfosse.com.

Co-President-Elect

Kevin M. Kozin, MS, MTS, LICSW

Kevin is a psychotherapist and grief counselor in private practice in Lexington, Massachusetts, working with adolescents, adults, couples, and families across Massachusetts, Virginia, Maine, and North Carolina.  He is also an adjunct professor at Boston University School of Social Work, where he teaches courses in clinical practice, psychopathology, spirituality and social work, and social work ethics.  Kevin's clinical experience spans hospice, pediatric palliative care, and community-based mental health.  His clinical interests include the intersection of attachment, trauma, relationships, spirituality, and the ways individuals and families navigate grief, change, and loss.  He has extensive training in Attachment-Focused EMDR, sex therapy, spirituality, grief and loss, divorce, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.  Kevin has been actively involved in professional leadership, having served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the National Association of Social Workers, Massachusetts Chapter (NASW-MA).  He also served for several years as Co-Chair of its Mental Health and Substance Abuse Committee and as Chair of its Strategic Planning Committee.  Kevin holds master's degrees in Social Work  and Theology from Boston University and a master's degree in Management of Information Systems from Stevens Institute of Technology.  He completed postgraduate training programs at both the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and PCFINE, where he remains actively involved in its educational programming and frequently serves as emcee for clinical presentations. 

Secretary
Andrea Kremer, LMHC, LMFT

Andrea Kremer, LMHC, LMFT, RegCOSRT, earned her BA from Brandeis University and her Master’s from Cambridge College, with a concentration in Marriage and Family Therapy. She completed a two-year postgraduate fellowship in couple therapy at PCFINE, and is currently pursuing certification in sex therapy. She works virtually with individuals and couples of all genders and orientations, in both monogamous and non-monogamous relationships. Her approach is primarily psychodynamic, integrating wisdom from Relational Life Therapy, the Gottman Method, and Esther Perel, among others. And as a vetted provider for the Backline mental health network, she draws on decades of prior experience in the music industry to work with bands and performing artists, navigating personal and creative challenges in their lives and partnerships. Committed to supporting her fellow clinicians, Andrea also serves on the Boards of Directors of the Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association (MAMHCA) and the New England Association for Family and Systemic Therapy (NEAFAST). Outside of work, Andrea is a frequent traveler, an occasional singer, and books live music at a small club in the Greater Boston area. Find her atwww.relatementalhealth.com.

Treasurer 
Dasha Tcherniakovskaia, JD, LMHC

Dasha Tcherniakovskaia is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Wellesley, MA who provides individual and couple counseling, premarital services, and financial therapy. Drawing on her corporate background in her prior career, she helps individuals navigate life transitions, relationship challenges, and the complex emotions surrounding money and career fulfillment. Dasha is passionate about helping clients break free from patterns that keep them stuck, whether that's healing after infidelity, improving communication in relationships, preparing for marriage, or transforming their relationship with money. 

Director of Education

David Goldfinger, Ph.D. 

David is a licensed clinical psychologist and educator with over 25 years of experience working in Cambridge. While the majority of his clinical practice is devoted to working with couples, he also works with individuals and families, and runs a psychodynamic psychotherapy group. He has been active in the Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy (NSGP) and PCFINE, where he has given numerous presentations examining how various theoretical frameworks (e.g., attachment theory, intersubjectivity, implicit relational knowledge) apply to these treatment modalities. David is currently on the PCFINE Board of Directors and serves as  Director of Education for the PCFINE couple therapy program, where he teaches two classes. On another note, David has been an annual invited speaker at the Blue Ridge Guitar Camp near Asheville, NC. There, he has explored topics such as mindfulness, creativity, performance anxiety, and improvisation using psychological and psychoanalytic concepts. This has led to other speaking engagements at local music schools and music camps. 

Program Committee Chair
Susan H. Phillips, Ph.D.

Susan H. Phillips is a clinical psychologist with a private practice in Brookline providing individual, couple, family therapy and supervision for 36 years. She draws heavily on developmental, relational and attachment frameworks. Her early career experience as an eating disorders specialist and child therapist at Harvard Community Health Plan has led her to think about how to balance the mental health needs of a community, while also preserving a focus on the depth of an individual’s internal world, and the importance of a unique therapeutic relationship. She was drawn to PCFINE because of its focus on integrating psychoanalytic and social, systemic ways of understanding distress in couples and families. She was part of the first class of PCFINE’s Couple Therapy Training Program (2002), holds an ongoing role in leading PCFINE’s Program Committee, and sought additional training through UMass Boston’s Infant-Parent Mental Health fellowship. Her hope to find ways to bring attachment theory to bear on public mental health interventions for parents and parenting professionals is an additional focus of her energy, leading her to start the Circle of Security-Parenting (COSP) Project with KC Turnbull, PhD at PCFINE. The PCFINE community has been her professional home for a long time, providing opportunities for non-doctrinaire learning, growth, and friendship. She is deeply grateful for this and hopes others will also find such a home here!

Ongoing Learning Committee Co-Chair  
Carolynn Maltas, Ph.D.

Carolynn Maltas has been working with couples and families for more than 50 years. She has written and spoken extensively about various subjects, including working with couples who have histories of sexual abuse, conflicts among therapists in multi-therapist systems, body-focused interventions, and combining psychodynamic and systemic perspectives in work with couples and families. She is a co-founder of the Psychodynamic Couple and Family Institute of New England (PCFINE) where she was a faculty member and Director of Education for its first 15 years. Currently she co-chairs the Committee for Ongoing Learning with a particular interest in issues around aging therapists and aging clients. Previously she was at McLean Hospital for 23 years where she co-founded the McLean Institute for Couples and Families in the 1980s. She is also a founding member and past-president of the Section on Family and Couple Therapy of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the APA. She taught couple and family therapy at Harvard and Tufts Medical Schools for many years and had a private practice in Cambridge until retiring from practice two years ago. She is also a long-time practitioner of Zen, studies Spanish and piano, gardens, and is a Hospice volunteer.  PCFINE has been her central focus since its founding more than twenty years ago and she is proud of her contributions, along with those of many other faculty members, to the creation and continuing growth of this wonderful institution that has become a professional home to so many.

Ongoing Learning Committee Co-Chair
Susan Abelson, Ph.D.

Susan counts as the significant beginning of her professional life, her post-doctoral training at McLean Hospital. There she met the treasured colleagues, guides, companions and friends who have shaped and supported her long and satisfying career as an individual and couple therapist. Starting out in private practice in Cambridge, MA, Susan was also included in a small coterie of burgeoning couple therapists at McLean Hospital. She found several professional homes along the way, never far from the original group, usually including and encouraged by our own Dr. Carolynn Maltas.  One significant home was Section 8 of Division 39, APA. There she served on the Board for many satisfying years. But the most lasting community has of course been PCFINE. Here she has served as consultant and co-consultant (with Keith Irving) for the consultation groups, having the honor of getting to know generations of wonderful Fellows who have engaged in our Couple Therapy Training Program.  For all these experiences, and more, she is deeply grateful.

Brunch Committee Chair 
Penelope Moore, LICSW 

Penelope Moore is a licensed independent clinical social worker, a practicing psychotherapist in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Maryland. Her work with couples began when she was a nursery school teacher in the 1970’s, meeting with parents to discuss concerns such as development, adoption, divorce and sexuality. She subsequently worked in inpatient settings, community mental health clinics, and with specialized populations such as people with substance use disorders and the homeless. She currently provides psychotherapy to adolescents and adults as individuals, couples, and families and psychodynamic clinical supervision to clinicians.  She graduated from Swarthmore College with a BA in English Literature and obtained her MSW from Boston University. From 1983-1986, she was a Fellow at the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy where she was taught and supervised by Anne Alonso, Cecil Rice, and Scott Rutan. There, she trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and groups. Following graduation, she was in individual weekly supervision with Paul Russell for nine years. She worked with Malkah Notman for 25 years. She completed the two-year training program at PCFINE to augment her capacities as a psychotherapist with families and couples and to join the PCFINE community.

Newsletter Co-Editor 
Jennifer Stone, Ph.D.

Jennifer Stone is a clinical psychologist practicing in Newton where she works with individuals, couples, and families, and provides clinical consultation to mental health professionals. Jennifer has served as a member of the PCFINE faculty for over 15 years, teaching classes and leading consultation groups for fellows in couple therapy training. Additionally, she co-edits the PCFINE newsletter and facilitates the Family Therapy Consultation Group among other ongoing learning opportunities. Having taught early career psychologists for 35 years at Harvard Medical School, Jennifer maintains a strong interest in teaching the next generation of therapists about couple and family dynamics.

Newsletter Co-Editor
Deborah Wolozin, Ph.D.

Deborah Wolozin works with children and families as well as couples. PCFINE has been her professional home since she joined the training class in 2005.  At PCFINE, Debbie has taught, served on the board, learned and made good and lasting friendships. Outside of PCFINE, she has served as President and board member at Section 8 (Couples and Family) of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis), of APA .  Aside from professional activities, Debbie sings in a local chorus, is on the board of Sustainable Sudbury and enjoys gardening.

Technology Committee
Joe DeAngelis, LICSW 

After a brief career in Graphic Design (BA, Mass. College of Art, 1985), Joe earned degrees in Pastoral Counseling and Clinical Social Work (MA, MSW, Boston College, 1995).  He works with individuals and couples in his private practice in Lexington.  Joe has training in contemporary psychoanalysis (Mass. Institute for Psychoanalysis, 2013), Group Psychotherapy (Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy, 2007), couple therapy (Psychodynamic Couple and Family Institute of New England, 2017) and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (Core Skills, ICEEFT, 2020).