Vivian Eskin, Ph.D

Vivian Eskin, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst (Adult) at the Contemporary Freudian Society and a graduate of the CFS/IPTAR Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program in New York. She holds a Qualifying Diploma in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from Tavistock Relationships in London. Dr. Eskin teaches at training institutes in New York City, provides clinical supervision, and maintains a private practice. She is also the Director of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy of NY (CPCP), which offers CE-accredited training in psychoanalytic couple therapy for social workers, psychologists, and licensed psychoanalysts.

Dr. Eskin has taught in graduate programs and psychoanalytic training institutes on subjects including clinical practice, communication, grief, young adult development, parenthood, narcissism and borderline states, psychodynamics, and couple therapy.

Dr. Eskin specializes in psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adults, couples, families, and parent–child dyads. She provides care across the full life span, including reproductive and family-building concerns, pregnancy and the perinatal period, and all subsequent developmental stages through aging and end-of-life issues.

Her clinical work addresses depression, anxiety, trauma, and a broad range of life-cycle and developmental challenges, including separation and individuation, post-college transitions, career difficulties, relationship conflict, infertility, pregnancy, postpartum depression, parenting, divorce, midlife transitions, aging, grief, and loss.

In practice since 1989, Dr. Eskin has devoted her work to helping patients understand and work through emotional suffering. Drawing on psychoanalytic traditions, she listens for the deeper emotional currents that shape how people experience themselves and their relationships.

Therapy is approached as a collaborative and reflective process, grounded in empathy, objectivity, and attentive listening. Dr. Eskin helps patients turn toward their inner lives, making room to think about anger, grief, and disappointment that may have gone unspoken—and to feel what has been difficult to bear alone. Over time, this work can support growth, creativity, and more meaningful connections with others.