Eugenia Cherkasskaya provides individual, couples, family, and group psychotherapy and consultation to adults, children, and adolescents, and enjoys working with different family and relationship configurations. She has training and experience in psychodynamic psychotherapy, trauma-focused modalities, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, couples therapy, as well as child play therapy and works in an integrative way. She has experience working 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 and self-injurious behaviors, posttraumatic stress disorder, personality disorders, relationship problems, and sexual issues. She has experience providing parent guidance and addressing the important 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. She is part of the trauma team at the counseling center at Columbia University, treating remote and recent history of trauma, particularly sexual trauma. Further, she works with students around issues of sexuality, in terms of identity as well as sexual experiences and sexual dysfunctions. 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 sexuality desire, attachment, object relations, and sexual self-concept.

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