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
Rachel Segall, LICSW

Rachel Segall has been practicing in the Boston area for over 25 years. She has appreciated working with all types of people, from adolescents in the DSS and DYS system, to young adults discovering who they are separate from their families (while remaining connected), to couples wishing to change dynamics and feel closer to adult children and their parents wanting to shift unhealthy patterns. She received her BA in Psychology from Bates College and her MSW from Smith College School for Social Work. She has done a great deal of post-graduate learning, most notably, PCFINE's two-year training in the Couple Therapy Training Program and a one-year course in Couple Therapy through Therapy Training Boston. She primarily focuses on couples and family work now, finding the work challenging and gratifying, and works to use both humor and sensitivity in helping people connect more deeply. Having been married for over 30 years, and having raised her own children, she knows the work it takes to get through the ups and downs of long-term relationships, as well as the rewards of doing that work. She is thrilled to have found a professional home at PCFINE.

Secretary
Jenn Bortle, Ph.D.

Jenn Bortle is a psychologist in private practice in Central Square Cambridge and virtually from her home in Newburyport. She specializes in working with LGBTQ and non-monogamous individuals and couples. Her graduate work at Duquesne University introduced her to existential, phenomenological and psychoanalytic approaches to psychotherapy. Internship and postdoctoral work brought her to Massachusetts Mental Health Center and the Cambridge Health Alliance, both Harvard Medical School training sites where she now supervises psychology interns. Jenn is past president of the Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (MAPP) and current faculty for the Psychodynamic Couple and Family Institute of New England (PCFINE) training program. Most recently, she has begun to offer ketamine assisted psychotherapy (KAP) in her practice.  Jenn lives with her husband and three cats and enjoys circus, surfing, and crafting.

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. 

Training Director
David Goldfinger, Ph.D. 

I am a licensed clinical psychologist and educator with over 25 years of experience working in Cambridge. While the majority of my clinical practice is devoted to working with couples, I also work with individuals and families, and run a psychodynamic psychotherapy group. I have been active in the Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy (NSGP) and PCFINE, where I have given numerous presentations examining how various theoretical frameworks (e.g. attachment theory, intersubjectivity, implicit relational knowledge) apply to these treatment modalities. I am currently on the PCFINE Board of Directors and serve as Director of Education for the PCFINE couple therapy program, where I teach two classes. On another note, I've been an annual invited speaker at the Blue Ridge Guitar Camp near Asheville, NC. There, I’ve 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. 

Faculty Liaison  
Joseph Shay, Ph.D.

Joseph Shay is a psychologist in private practice in Cambridge. He is on the faculty of the joint McLean/Massachusetts General Hospital training program and has an appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. Joe has been part of PCFINE since its founding and has served in many roles. He has also served on the faculty and in leadership positions for the Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy and the American Group Psychotherapy Association. Joe has co-edited Odysseys in Psychotherapy and Complex Dilemmas in Group Therapy and has co-authored Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy (4^th and 5^th editions), has presented and published widely in the fields of couple therapy and group therapy and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. He has been recognized as a Life Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and was twice awarded the Psychotherapy Supervision Award from the McLean/MGH residents in Adult Psychiatry.

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
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.

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.

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
Joseph 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).