Dr. Eugenia Cherkasskaya has over a decade of experience providing psychotherapy and evaluation to adults, teenagers, couples, and families. Her expertise and training lie in the areas of personality disorders, trauma, and sexuality, as well as in parenting and adolescent development. Grounded in psychoanalytic theory as a framework for understanding the human experience, she also draws upon other therapeutic tools such as mindfulness and emotion regulation skills building. Her overarching aim in therapy is to help patients gain a better understanding of themselves and their relationships while developing the necessary coping strategies to move through the world with a sense of ease, safety, and stability.

Dr. Cherkasskaya earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from the Graduate Center and City College of the City University of New York. She completed a clinical psychology internship at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Counseling and Psychological Services at Columbia University. Dr. Cherkasskaya subsequently served as a staff psychologist at Columbia University where she provided evaluations, psychotherapy, couples therapy, and group therapy to students and was part of the trauma team as well as the sex and gender identity team.

Dr. Cherkasskaya also trained at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), an empirically based psychodynamic treatment for personality disorders. She has been an instructor and supervisor in the training and consultation program at TFP-NY and is currently an instructor in the TFP program at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. At Uptown Downtown, Dr. Cherkasskaya provides individual supervision and runs the TFP supervision group.

Dr. Cherkasskaya also completed coursework in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) at the Ackerman Institute for the Family as well as in Psychoanalytic Couples Therapy at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. She presents and writes on the psychological processes involved in women’s experience of sexual desire.