About Yana
Yana Gaykov is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of practice in New York. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or big life changes. She listens for strengths and practical steps people can use right away.
Yana approaches therapy as a collaboration. She believes each person knows their story and brings strengths into sessions. Her role is to help identify patterns, try small changes, and build tools that fit everyday life.
How Yana works
Sessions focus on real problems such as relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, or trouble sleeping. She also supports people dealing with trauma, addiction, anger, low self-esteem, and career worries. Yana pays attention to medical or caregiving burdens like chronic illness and caregiver stress when these shape daily functioning.
She is experienced supporting issues that affect identity and belonging, including LGBT concerns, multicultural stress, adoption and foster care topics, pregnancy and childbirth, and women’s issues. She also works with people navigating impulsivity, infidelity, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue. Her style is practical and respectful.
Conversations aim to be straightforward and useable between sessions. People can expect a steady focus on what matters now and what small steps could help them feel more in control.
What Yana works with
The areas below are the ones Yana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Evidence-based approaches for online support
Yana uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change. One common approach emphasizes identifying patterns that keep problems going and testing small behavioral changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety, sleep disruption, or low mood. This method helps people try specific steps between sessions and notice what makes a difference.Another approach centers on building coping skills for intense emotions and stress. It teaches concrete strategies for calming the body, managing anger, and handling impulsivity so daily life feels more manageable. This work is useful for people facing grief, caregiver strain, chronic illness, or compassion fatigue.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Yana will work with each person to decide which techniques match their goals, needs, and comfort level, adjusting methods as progress unfolds. The focus is on shared decision-making and practical next steps.
Online sessions offer flexibility and easier access to care. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, and live chat or text messaging work well for quick check-ins or when someone needs short, frequent support. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days while keeping treatment focused and goal oriented.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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