About Yana
Yana Gaykov is a licensed social worker practicing in New York with 20 years of professional experience. She centers her work on practical steps people can use to feel steadier when life gets hard. Yana emphasizes each person's strengths and treats clients as the expert on their own story.
She helps people manage stress and anxiety, mood struggles like depression and bipolar symptoms, and problems that affect relationships and intimacy.
Background and approach
Parents and people facing life transitions can find clear techniques to cope with daily demands. Yana also addresses challenges tied to addiction, grief, trauma, and sleep or eating difficulties. Her approach is straightforward and collaborative.
Sessions focus on real-world goals, simple tools, and small changes that add up. She guides conversations so clients can test what works and adjust plans when needed. Yana has worked across varied settings over two decades, so she brings practical experience with complex life issues such as caregiving strain, chronic illness, and multicultural concerns.
She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care questions, pregnancy and childbirth issues, and midlife transitions. People who prefer direct, skills-based conversations tend to fit well with her style. She listens without judgment, then helps build manageable steps to improve coping, relationships, and daily routines.
The focus is on usable strategies clients can apply between sessions.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Yana uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, achievable change. One approach emphasizes building practical coping skills for stress and anxiety, teaching breathing, planning, and behavior changes to reduce overwhelm. Another approach focuses on mood regulation and routine - simple tools to manage depression or bipolar symptoms like structuring activities and tracking sleep and mood patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Yana will review a person's goals, life context, and preferences and then suggest strategies to try. She partners with clients to adjust methods if something isn't helpful or to add new tactics that better fit day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing expressions matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support brief updates, homework discussion, or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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