Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Yana works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New York
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Yana
Yana Gaykov is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of practice in New York. She focuses on practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She helps clients name problems and find doable steps to feel steadier and more in control.
She sees relationships, parenting struggles, and intimacy concerns as common sources of strain and works with individuals who want clearer boundaries and better communication.
Background and approach
Anger and impulsivity are areas she addresses with straightforward tools to manage strong emotions. She also supports people facing grief, trauma, addiction, and issues around self-esteem and identity. Her approach centers on working together to identify strengths and realistic goals.
Sessions tend to focus on what feels most urgent, then build skills and routines that fit daily life. She aims for practical strategies clients can try between meetings and then adjust as needed. Clients can expect a calm, direct style that emphasizes listening and clear feedback.
Yana helps people break big problems into smaller steps and track progress over time. She also brings experience with caregiving stress, chronic health challenges, adoption and foster care concerns, and multicultural issues. Over two decades of work in clinical settings inform her judgment and pace.
The goal is steady improvement rather than quick fixes. She invites people to take the first step and will support them as they work toward clearer goals and better coping.
What Yana works with
Everything Yana lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Yana's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Approaches that guide online work
Yana uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional regulation. One common approach she draws on teaches skills for recognizing and managing strong emotions, which helps with anger, anxiety, and impulsivity by breaking reactions into understandable steps. Another frequently used method emphasizes problem-solving and behavior change, helping clients set small goals, test new responses, and build routines that reduce stress and improve mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust plans based on what works. The process is flexible so techniques can be tailored to the client’s pace and preferences rather than fixed in advance.
Online sessions offer several practical benefits for people with busy or complicated lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be a quick check-in during a break, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, caregiver schedule, or unpredictable routine.
Questions people ask about Yana
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, relationship and parenting concerns, grief, trauma, addictions, self-esteem issues, and many life changes.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Sessions are practical and collaborative. She listens, offers clear feedback, and helps clients try small, manageable steps between meetings.
What is her background and experience?
She has 20 years of professional experience working in clinical settings and community care, guiding people through stress, relationship strain, and long-term challenges.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential - LCSW - and practices in New York.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She works with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are costs handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.