Eugenia Cherkasskaya

Eugenia Cherkasskaya provides individual, couples, and family psychotherapy to adults and adolescents, and enjoys working with different family and relationship configurations. She is trained and experienced in psychodynamic psychotherapy, trauma-focused modalities, Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), couples therapy, including Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), as well as child play therapy and works in an integrative way. She works with a diverse population of patients in terms of race/ethnicity, sexuality, gender and other facets of identity as well as a range of psychological difficulties including mood disorders, anxiety, emotion dysregulation, suicidality, and self-injurious behaviors, posttraumatic stress disorder, personality disorders, relationship problems, and sexual issues. She also offers parent guidance and helps patients to navigate the intersection of people’s roles as parents and romantic partners.

Dr. Cherkasskaya is especially interested in patients’ experience of life transitions which can take many forms: emerging adulthood, becoming a parent, changing careers, shifting relationship roles, and expanding sexual frameworks. Further, an important focus in her work lies in the realm of trauma and sexual health, which intersect in significant ways. Her clinical experiences in the fields of trauma and sexuality complement her research and theoretical interests in the field of sexology. She is member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and has presented and written on female sexual desire, attachment, object relations, and sexual self-concept.

Dr. Cherkasskaya earned her Ph.D. at The Graduate Center/CUNY, completed an internship at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Counseling and Psychological Services at Columbia University where she remained on staff for several years before transitioning to full-time private practice on the Upper West Side and in Tribeca.  

Degree: Ph.D., Clinical Psychology

Title: Licensed Clinical Psychology

Clinical Appointments/Hospital Affiliation: Clinical Psychologist at the Counseling and Psychological Services, Columbia Health, Columbia University (2014-2019)

Areas of Research:

Female Sexual Desire

Professional Education:

Post-doctoral Fellowship, Counseling and Psychological Services, Columbia University

Pre-doctoral Internship, Mount Sinai Beth Israel

Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York

M.Phil., The Graduate Center, City University of New York

MA, Hunter College, City University of New York

BA, Barnard College, Columbia University

Credentials/Board Certification: New York State Licensed Psychologist

Honors/Awards: The Far Fund, New York, NY

Publications:

Cherkasskaya, E. & Rosario, M. (2019). Relational and Bodily Experiences Theory: Attachment and Sociocultural Influences in a Parsimonious Model of Sexual Desire in Women. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48, 1719–1722.

Cherkasskaya, E. & Rosario, M. (2019). The Relational and Bodily Experiences Theory of Sexual Desire in Women. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48, Issue 6, pp. 1659–1681. 

Cherkasskaya, E., & Rosario, M. (2017). A model of female sexual desire: Internalized working models of parent–child relationships and sexual body self-representations. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 46, 2429–2444.

Cherkasskaya, E., & Wachtel, P. L. (2013). Psykoterapi integrasjon: Historie ognåværende status [Psychotherapy integration: History and current status]. In: E. Axelsen Dalsgaard, K. Benum, & E. Hartmann Hva er god psykoterapi? Integrering av teori, klinisk erfaring og forskning i det terapeutiske rom [What characterizes psychotherapy that works? Integration of theory, clinical experience, and research in the therapy room]. Oslo: Pax Forlag.

 Presentations/Media

Cherkasskaya, E. (November 2015). The Phenomenology of sexual desire in women with inhibited and heightened sexuality: A qualitative study. Presentation at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality: Beyond Boundaries: Exploring the Emerging Dimensions of Sexual Science in Research, Education, and Practice, November 12-15, 2015, Albuquerque, NM

Cherkasskaya, E. (November 2014). Re-considering female sexual desire: Internalized representations of parental relationships and sexual self-concept in women with inhibited and heightened sexual desire. Presentation at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality: The Sexual Frontier: Expanding our Community Reach in Research, Education, and Practice, November 6-9, 2014, Omaha, NE.

Cherkasskaya, E., Constantine, S., & Pervil, I. (August 2013). Dual worlds: The adaptive and defensive nature of relational technology in treatment. Paper presented as part of a Symposium, “Blurred Lines: Relational Technology in the Therapy Room,” at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention 2013, Honolulu, HI.

Cherkasskaya, E. (April 2013). Female sexual desire on a spectrum: Effects of early parent-child relations & sexual self-concept. Poster presented at the Fourth Annual All-Psychology Research Day, Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY.

Cherkasskaya, E. (November 2012). Female sexual desire on a spectrum: Effects of early parent-child relations & sexual self-concept. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality 2012, Tampa, FL.

Cherkasskaya, E. & Constantine, S. (May 2012). Case presentation on two-year treatment and psychological assessment of a 7-year-old Black boy with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Clinical Rounds, City College of New York, CUNY, New York, NY.

Cherkasskaya, E. (June 2011 & 2012). Case presentation on the themes of monsters and superheroes in the treatment of a 6-7-year old boy with a history of trauma. Guest lecture for a psychology course entitled Monsters and Superheroes. City College of New York, CUNY, New York, NY.

Leotti, L.A., Cherkasskaya, E., Marrero, S., & Monk, C. E. (April, 2009). Prenatal transmission of stress-related physiology and behavior in human infants. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society of Research in Child Development. Denver, CO.

 Contact

UWS:

145 West 96th Street

New York, NY 10025

Tribeca:

368 Broadway 

New York, NY 10013

E-mail: DrCherkasskaya@gmail.com

Insurances Accepted: Out of Network