Dr. Svetlana Yakov helped me when no one else could. I've suffered from depression, anxiety, and complex PTSD for as long as I can remember, due to childhood trauma and narcissistic abuse. Sadness has been my constant companion. Over the past 20 years, I've tried various prescription medications, only to experience unpleasant side effects and no long-lasting relief. My most recent bout of depression was so severe that it affected my body physically--something I'd never experienced before. The pain--emotional, physical, and psychological--was so intense that life didn't seem worth living. I just wanted the pain to stop. Researching Ketamine's positive effects on treatment-resistant depression gave me the spark of hope I'd been looking for. I hoped that this alternative option could finally help me escape from my prison of suffering. Finding Dr. Yakov has been one of my life's biggest blessings. She is extremely intelligent, kind, compassionate, empathetic, and understanding. For the first time in my life, I have felt truly cared for by a healthcare professional. She is a gift to the community of Billings, Montana. It has been six weeks since my first Spravato (esketamine) treatment, and I am a different woman than the one who began this journey. This treatment has given me the ability to see my life's circumstances from a different perspective, helping me let go of what no longer serves me and detach from what has kept me stuck in the cycle of depression for years. My experience has been nothing short of incredible! Recently, I felt genuine happiness for the first time in years. I feel hope and have dreams for my future again. My hobbies and interests are beginning to light me up once more, and I no longer feel unsafe in the world. My experience has been literally life-changing, if not life-saving. I owe my recovery from severe depression to Dr. Yakov and her genuine desire to help people like me who are (or were) suffering. I cannot recommend her more highly. Life is worth living. There is help out there. Give yourself the gift of healing and call her today. read more

Wonderful psychiatrist! She has significant experience and training as BOTH a psychiatrist as well as a neurologist. Provides multiple-medication management, easy to talk to, caring. New private outpatient office on Overland Ave. (South of Outback Steakhouse). Offering newest therapies for treatment-resistant depression, such as ketamine, etc.. Lucky to have her in Billings! read more

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Dr Yakov is a very caring professional who stays up on the latest advances in psychiatric medicine. I have struggled with depression for over 40 years and nothing really seemed to work but I kept trying counseling, physicologist and physiciatrist , I was a patient of Dr Yakov's at BC then she left there and my primary care physician took over my mental health that didn't work out very well. after a year of struggling I was looking for another psychiatrist and I found Dr Yakov on line BC wouldn't tell me where she had gone and they were short on psychiatrist didn't have any for me to see. I'm so thankful I found Dr Yakov and my medication resistant depression her use of the cutting edge drug Spravata s-ketamine has changed my life it is so good t look forward to each new day and enjoy my family and work on project. Dr Yakov has lead my to a life I didn't know was possible. Thank you! read more