About Yana
Yana Gaykov is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience based in New York. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or parenting concerns. She also supports people coping with trauma, grief, addiction, ADHD, and issues around self-esteem and intimacy.
Yana approaches work in a respectful, down-to-earth way. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
She encourages small, practical steps that fit into daily life. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort. Over two decades Yana has helped people through major life changes, chronic illness, and caregiver stress.
Her experience includes supporting those dealing with grief, compassion fatigue, and complex family problems. She also offers guidance for concerns such as eating or sleeping disruptions, impulsivity, and midlife transitions. Her style is straightforward and supportive.
Conversations focus on what feels most useful now - coping tools, clearer patterns, or new ways to approach old problems. She aims to make the work feel manageable rather than overwhelming. For people exploring ADHD-related challenges, she listens for practical barriers and daily habits that get in the way.
Together with each person she looks for realistic strategies to reduce friction and build routines that stick.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Yana uses evidence-based techniques that focus on real-life problems and habit change. One approach emphasizes building concrete coping skills and routines to reduce daily stress and improve sleep, eating, and attention. This helps when symptoms interfere with work, caregiving, or everyday tasks.Another approach centers on processing difficult emotions like grief, shame, or trauma in a paced, supportive way. Sessions work through what matters most and identify steps to move forward while monitoring emotional overload.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that match the person's goals, and adjust plans as progress is made. Clients and therapist work together to find what feels most useful and sustainable.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or continuing work between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and different daily rhythms.
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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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