About Zina
Zina Mercil is a licensed professional counselor who helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She focuses on real-life problems like work burnout, grieving losses, career changes, and medical setbacks. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at making small, useful changes that reduce daily strain.
She uses mindfulness and attachment ideas to help people notice patterns that keep them stuck. Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques are used to teach practical skills for emotion regulation and coping.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing helps when someone is unsure about change or needs a clearer direction. Sessions often begin by identifying what matters most to the client. Zina helps clients set short-term goals and build step-by-step plans.
Conversations include noticing thoughts and bodily reactions, practicing new behaviors, and testing what works between sessions. Her background includes a decade of counseling adults across many life transitions. She has worked with people facing chronic illness, caregiver stress, grief, and career uncertainty.
That experience informs a calm, steady approach when emotions feel intense. Therapy is offered in multiple online formats so clients can choose what fits their life. Zina communicates plainly and helps people find manageable ways to reduce anxiety and rebuild a sense of purpose.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and trust. In sessions this can mean looking at repeated patterns in relationships and practicing new ways to connect and set boundaries. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for handling strong emotions and reducing impulsive reactions. Those skills can be practiced in brief exercises during video or text exchanges to make day-to-day life easier. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention to present-moment experiences and bodily signals to reduce stress and reactivity; short guided practices can be used between sessions to build steady habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Zina will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and comfort with different techniques. Clients and therapist adjust the plan together as progress unfolds, combining skills training, reflective work, and practical problem solving.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill coaching, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works well for short check-ins and between-session support. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting sessions into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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