Cecilia Zinnikas

Cecilia Zinnikas is a licensed counselor with 33 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and mood concerns. She focuses on practical steps clients can use day to day. Cecilia aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk through painful experiences and find clearer ways forward.

Her work pays close attention to how guilt, shame, and control issues show up in daily life. Cecilia supports people dealing with post-traumatic stress, impulsivity, and complex mood patterns. She also addresses concerns related to addiction, bipolar disorder, and overlapping conditions that make coping harder.

Cecilia often helps clients navigating life changes such as divorce or separation, and she pays special attention to family of origin issues and parenting stresses. She uses tools to strengthen self-esteem and build steady coping skills tailored to each person’s situation.

Her practice draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy alongside methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. These approaches are used to reduce distress, manage emotions, and process difficult memories.

Clients can expect a straightforward, collaborative process that balances skill-building with emotional processing. Cecilia’s long experience is applied in a practical, person-centered way to help people move toward more stable daily functioning and renewed self-acceptance.

How therapy approaches translate to online work

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and day-to-day coping challenges.

Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process and make sense of traumatic experiences while building safety and emotion regulation. It aims to reduce the hold of traumatic memories and improve daily functioning.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing uses guided attention and recall to help lessen the intensity of distressing memories and related reactions.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. Sessions can be adjusted over time so the approach stays practical and focused on what is working.

Confirm the current session options before booking, since formats are not specified here. Many people find online sessions helpful because they can fit therapy into a weekday break, avoid travel time, or choose a shorter check-in when needed. Online work can also make it easier to practice skills between sessions and to use tools introduced in therapy in real-life moments.