Yana Gaykov, LCSW
Supportive clinical social worker for life and parenting challenges
Book with Yana- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Yana
Yana Gaykov is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of practice based in New York. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the everyday strains that make life harder. Yana centers her work on each person's strengths and on practical steps they can use right away.
She encourages clients to name what matters most and to take small, doable actions toward change. Sessions move at a steady, realistic pace and aim to build skills for coping with strong emotions, relationship tensions, and parenting pressures.
Background and approach
Yana respects that taking the first step can feel daunting and meets people where they are. Her background includes long-term clinical work across community settings and individual care. Over two decades she has supported people dealing with trauma, grief, burnout, and addiction-related concerns.
That experience informs how she helps clients sift through immediate problems and longer-term patterns. Yana also brings attention to life transitions such as midlife shifts, caregiving strain, pregnancy and childbirth, and changes tied to aging or chronic illness. She works with diverse cultural backgrounds and addresses issues like multicultural concerns and LGBT matters without assumption.
Practical problem solving is a through line in her practice. Conversations focus on clear goals, skill-building, and making daily life feel more manageable. Parents who are juggling responsibilities often find the focus helpful because it ties changes in the session to everyday routines and decisions.
What Yana works with
Everything Yana lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Yana helps people with.
- 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 sessions
Yana draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and real-life change. One common approach she uses centers on building coping skills for anxiety, stress, and mood problems by practicing simple, repeatable strategies that reduce overwhelming reactions and improve daily functioning. Another strand of work focuses on processing loss, trauma, and relationship strain through carefully paced conversations that help people make sense of difficult experiences and decide on next steps.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try a method, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. Clients work together with Yana to set priorities and test techniques that fit their routines and needs rather than following a fixed template.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction when that helps, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework, or quick support between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
Questions people ask about Yana
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, addiction-related issues, and a wide range of other life challenges listed in her specialties.
What is her approach in sessions?
Sessions emphasize practical steps and skill building. Conversations focus on identifying strengths, setting clear goals, and practicing tools that can be used between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 20 years of professional experience working in clinical and community settings, using that background to assist people through both immediate problems and longer-term patterns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - practicing in New York.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Are international clients accepted?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats does she offer?
She meets by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide different ways to connect based on practical needs.
How do payments and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time; to begin, use the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to availability.
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