Kseniia Gvozdieva, PhD

Kseniia Gvozdieva, PhD, MBA, is the Intensive Outpatient Program Director at the Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She obtained her Master's in Business Administration with a specialization in Management and Economics from the National Transportation University in Kyiv, Ukraine. She earned her Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling and a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at the City College of New York. She completed her psychology internship and postdoctoral research fellowship at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. In her clinical practice, Dr. Gvozdieva works with adults in individual, couples/family, and group modalities, utilizing an integrative approach to psychotherapy, drawing on relational psychodynamic tradition, dialectical-behavioral approach, as well as attachment and systems theories. She specializes in helping individuals affected by trauma, loss and grief, personality disorders, and substance use, as well as in providing LGBTQ+ affirming care. She is a Certified Group Psychotherapist (CGP), has additional training in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and Alliance-Focused Training (AFT), and offers culturally sensitive services to Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking individuals in their native languages. Aside from clinical work, Dr. Gvozdieva has a passion for teaching, supervision, and mentorship.