About Zakiya
Zakiya Bircher is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who brings a calm, listening presence to sessions. She focuses on practical steps people can take when stress, anxiety, depression, or life changes feel overwhelming. Zakiya uses clear, straightforward language and encourages clients to try small, manageable shifts that add up over time.
Before becoming a counselor she spent many years in education and school settings, and she carries that practical orientation into therapy.
Background and approach
She holds a master’s degree in counseling from Prairie View A&M University and draws on classroom and school counseling experience when helping people organize goals and routines. In sessions she leans on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which links thoughts, feelings, and actions to help change unhelpful patterns. She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to set short-term goals and identify what’s already working.
Mindfulness techniques are offered to help manage stress, improve sleep, and steady mood. Zakiya helps people sort problems like workplace strain, relationship stress, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, and issues tied to mood or attention. She also supports those navigating identity concerns, including LGBT matters, and young adult issues.
Her style is direct, warm, and goal-oriented - she listens, asks practical questions, and suggests doable steps. Clients can expect an emphasis on skill building and clear action plans. Sessions often include homework tasks, simple behavior experiments, and strategies for better sleep and impulse control.
The aim is to leave each meeting with one or two concrete next steps to try before the next session.
Practical approaches for online therapy and coping
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people identify unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and sleep better. Solution-Focused Therapy centers on concrete goals and small changes that make a real difference quickly, which can be useful for coping with stress, relationship concerns, and workplace problems.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to pick strategies that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they review what helps, adjust plans, and focus on practical next steps rather than long lists of theory.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues for a fuller conversation, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in, and messaging or live chat suits brief updates or when someone needs to reflect in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or school schedules while keeping progress focused on concrete skills and goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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