About Yana
Yana Gaykov is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of practice in New York. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress and on finding practical ways to feel steadier in daily life. She works with adults facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, depression, and other life transitions.
Her approach begins by listening to each person’s story and noticing strengths they already have. Sessions are collaborative and down-to-earth.
Background and approach
Yana aims to help people build skills they can use between sessions to cope with worry and emotion. She brings two decades of clinical experience to common concerns such as trauma, grief, addiction, and sleep difficulties. She also supports people dealing with career stress, caregiving burdens, and issues related to identity and multicultural life.
Practical issues like concentration, impulsivity, eating and intimacy-related worries are included alongside longer-term struggles like bipolar symptoms, chronic illness, and midlife change. Yana also addresses concerns connected to adoption and foster care, pregnancy and childbirth, and aging and geriatric issues. Sessions can help people increase self-compassion, manage anger, and work through guilt or shame.
Yana describes therapy as a cooperative process where the client’s goals guide the focus. She offers straightforward tools and steady support to help people move toward clearer, more manageable days.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Yana draws on evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and coping. One approach helps people learn specific skills to reduce anxiety and manage stress, such as breathing strategies, grounding exercises, and step-by-step behavior changes that lower daily worry. Another approach targets relationships and communication, teaching ways to set boundaries, express needs clearly, and repair connection when conflicts arise.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist and client look at current difficulties, goals, and personal preferences, then try methods that fit. Adjustments are made as needed so work stays useful and relevant to the person’s life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for interactive skill practice and fuller connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or visual attention is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, mood tracking, or when people need flexible day-to-day support. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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