About Cecilia
Cecilia Zinnikas is a licensed counselor in Oklahoma with 33 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on clear, practical steps to reduce overwhelm and build steadier mood patterns. Her work often centers on recovery from trauma and on rebuilding self-esteem after painful events.
She uses a mix of approaches so sessions feel tailored to each person. That can mean practicing skills to manage strong emotions, trying new ways of thinking about problems, or using focused trauma work when memories keep causing distress.
Background and approach
Cecilia aims to make tools usable in day-to-day life rather than abstract ideas that stay in the therapy room. Her background includes long clinical experience with mood disorders, impulsivity, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people facing addiction, relationship struggles related to family of origin, and the fallout from divorce or separation.
That experience informs how she helps people spot patterns and interrupt unhelpful cycles. Sessions emphasize skills building, increased self-compassion, and concrete plans for coping with life changes. Cecilia pays attention to how guilt, shame, control issues, and dissociation affect coping, and she offers strategies to reduce their hold.
Progress is framed as steady steps rather than instant fixes. People come away with clearer choices, stronger coping skills, and goals that fit their daily life. Cecilia combines practical techniques with a calm, direct style to help people move forward at a pace that feels right for them.
Practical therapies you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose values-based actions. It’s useful for anxiety, stress, and getting unstuck when worry takes over. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete techniques to shift those patterns. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and coping skills training. Dialectical Behavior Therapy focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships through clear skills practice; it can help when impulsivity and intense emotions cause trouble.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cecilia will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs and goals. That may mean trying skill-based work first, then adding focused trauma processing if memories or symptoms demand it. The plan is adjusted as progress and preferences become clear.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues and practice in-the-moment skills, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help fit therapy around work, school, or family schedules while keeping the focus on usable strategies and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Montana, Oklahoma, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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