Faculty
Core Faculty
Kristin Koberstein, MA, LMFT
Faculty Associated, Doctoral Candidate, Warner School, University of Rochester
AAMFT Approved Supervisor
Major Interests: medical family therapy, clinical supervision, collaboration between primary care and mental health, refugee care, and postpartum adjustment for families.
Jessica Moore, Ph.D.
Clinical Director, Strong Family Therapy Services
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Major Interests: pediatric family psychology, medical family therapy, chronic illness, developmental and behavioral needs, parenting, and advocacy. Teaching, clinical work, and research interests focused on collaboration and integrated care.
Jenny Speice, PhD, LMFT
Director, MS MFT Program
Co-Director: Family Therapy Training Program,
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
AAMFT Approved Supervisor
Major Interests: families and health, particularly related to genetic concerns and infertility/fertility treatments; grief and loss; ethics and professional practice.
Program Faculty
Jessica Goodman, PhD, LMFT
Clinical Senior Instructor, Department of Psychiatry
AAMFT Approved Supervisor
Major Interests: Medical family therapy, integrated behavioral healthcare, narrative-informed medical family therapy, social and political advocacy in family therapy, emergency department utilization, relational healthcare utilization decision-making, translational research using machine learning, healthcare provider burnout prevention, medical residency education and coaching
Susan H. McDaniel, PhD, LMFT
Dr. Laurie Sands Distinguished Professor of Families & Health
Director, Institute for the Family, Department of Psychiatry
Vice Chair, Department of Family Medicine
Major Interests: medical family therapy, integrated primary and specialty care, healthcare teams and collaboration, inter-professional education, reproductive technologies, genetic testing, unexplained medical symptoms, physician-patient communication, and communication coaching for physician and other health professionals.
Carol Podgorski, PhD, MPH, LMFT 
Co-Director: Family Therapy Training Program
Professor of Psychiatry
Associate Chair of Faculty Affairs, Department of Psychiatry
Major Interests: family therapy in dementia and long term care, academic-community partnerships, and evidence-informed program development, advocacy for MFT profession.
Tziporah Rosenberg, PhD, LMFT
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Associate Chair of Education, Department of Psychiatry
Major Interests: medical family therapy, models of collaborative and integrative healthcare, couple and family therapy training and education, outcome-based education and assessment, effects of illness and health on family relationships.
Michelle Swanger-Gagne, PhD, NCSP
Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Major Interests: family engagement in children’s education and healthcare, Family-School-Community Partnerships, Pediatric Collaborative and Integrative Care, School and Healthcare Consultation, Specific clinical interests include pediatric pain, chronic health conditions in children/youth, and children/youth with behavioral concerns and school challenges.
Traci Terrance, PhD, LCSW
Senior Instructor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine
Co-Instructor, MS MFT Program
Major Interests: cultural humility; development integrated clinical training; integrate care and community engagement; dismantling structural racism and oppression; narrative therapy.
Community Faculty
Maisha Enaharo, MPH, MS
Clinical Associate in Psychiatry
Co-instructor, MS MFT Program
Major Interests: trainings/group facilitation: internalized racism; structural/systemic racism; intersectionality of identities, leadership coaching, effective black parenting
Additional Program Clinical Staff, Supervisors
and Supervisor Candidates
Shanice Aluko, MS, MFT
Marriage and Family Therapist
AAMFT Supervisor in Training
Major Interests: couple/marital and family therapy, faith/spirituality and psychotherapy, medical family therapy, Black/African American family issues and parenting, children/youth with behavioral concerns, and collaboration between primary care, mental health, and faith based organizations
Jamie Carr, MS, LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist
Co-Instructor, MS MFT Program
Major interests: women’s health, trauma, marital and couple therapy, parenting, positive reinforcement, and self-care.
Kristin D'Amico MS, LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist
Major interests: Integrated healthcare, parent-child interactions, particularly in the context of ACES, infant mental health and attachment
Tonya Girard, MS, LMFT
Senior Marriage and Family Therapist
AMFT Approved Supervisor
Course Instructor, MS MFT Program
Major Interests: medical family therapy, collaborative/integrated health practice, trauma informed care and treatment, mind-body integration, women’s and LGBTQIA+ health.
Chinh Huynh, MS, LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist
AAMFT Supervisor in Training in Family Therapy Services
Major interests: intimate partner violence, intergenerational trauma and abuse, self-of-the-therapist, diverse and inclusive workplace
Benjamin Schwabe, M.S. LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist
Major interests: Narrative, postmodern and psychodynamic therapies, anti-racist and equitable clinical practice, prison abolition and decarceration, religious and spiritual concerns in psychotherapy.
Siyi Yang, MS, MFT
Marriage and Family Therapist
Major Interests: Couple/marital and family therapy, infidelity, family structure/boundary issues within family system and couple, self-care, multicultural counseling, and collaboration between primary care and mental health.
Rachael Zoller, MS, LMFT
Senior Marriage and Family Therapist
AAMFT Approved Supervisor
Major interests: women’s health, couple/marital/family therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), individual and family therapy with adolescents, clinical supervision.
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