About Connie
Connie Zmijewski is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who helps people manage anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship strains. She works with people facing parenting stress, career challenges, sleep trouble, anger, and life changes. Connie encourages clients to use their own strengths as the starting point for change.
She practices in North Carolina and brings 20 years of counseling experience to each meeting. Sessions focus on clear, practical steps and honest conversation.
Background and approach
Connie emphasizes listening first and helping clients name what matters most to them. Her approach blends several methods to match the person in the room. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports clients in clarifying values and taking committed action toward those values. Connie also uses client-centered and existential ideas to keep sessions grounded in each person’s story and meaning. She draws on Jungian perspectives when exploring deeper themes that affect identity and relationships.
This mix lets her tailor work to issues like trauma, attachment, codependency, and communication problems. Connie aims to make therapy practical and usable between sessions. She supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, chronic illness stress, ADHD-related struggles, and blended family dynamics.
The focus is on small, doable shifts that improve daily life and relationships.
How her approaches translate to online work
Connie often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name their values and take small actions toward those values even when feelings are difficult. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach happens together. Connie will talk with clients about goals and preferences and then try strategies that fit their situation. She adjusts the mix of techniques as people notice what helps and what does not, treating the process as collaborative and practical.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging make shorter check-ins and step-by-step coaching easier between sessions. These options help make therapy more flexible and accessible for busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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