About Zoya
Zoya McCants is a licensed mental health counselor and counselor educator who has practiced for 17 years. She holds the LMHC and the LPC and works from New Jersey. Her work centers on anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns, and she also offers coaching for life and purpose questions.
Zoya focuses on reproductive and women’s mental health, helping people facing infertility, pregnancy and postpartum transitions, loss, and identity changes.
Background and approach
She draws on clinical methods that address the body, thoughts, and personal stories to support healing after trauma and major life shifts. Her sessions aim to make room for real issues like shame, guilt, communication problems, and control struggles. Zoya pays attention to how systemic issues and culture affect emotions and behavior.
That perspective shapes how she helps people understand what they're dealing with and what matters to them. She uses a collaborative, strength-based style. Conversations are practical and grounded - goal-focused work, skills practice, and narrative meaning-making.
Individuals find ways to manage panic and anxiety, rebuild trust after infidelity or separation, or cope with first responder stress and grief. Zoya integrates somatic, cognitive-behavioral, and narrative-informed techniques to meet the needs of each person. Her clinical teaching and supervisory background informs a clear, structured approach during sessions.
She aims to help people rediscover resilience and build routines that support emotional well-being.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Somatic-informed techniques focus on the body and how stress shows up physically. Sessions can include breathing, grounding, and awareness exercises that help reduce panic symptoms and regulate the nervous system. These methods often assist people coping with trauma, panic, and intense anxiety.Cognitive-behavioral approaches look at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Work includes identifying unhelpful thought patterns and practicing new ways of thinking and behavior to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. This style suits people who want structured tools and homework to try between sessions.
Narrative-informed work helps people tell and reshape their personal stories. By examining how events are remembered and given meaning, clients can find new perspectives on loss, shame, or identity shifts. This can be useful for life transitions, relationship repairs, and grief work.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to figure out which mix of techniques fits their goals, comfort level, and daily life. That decision is revisited as progress is made and needs change.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to get care. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for in-depth work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier between errands or at work. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing skill practice between appointments, making therapy easier to fit into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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