About Cecilia
Cecilia Zinnikas helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Oklahoma with more than 33 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Her work focuses on practical steps people can use day to day.
Cecilia listens for what matters most to each person, then helps them build coping skills and clearer routines.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to reduce shame and increase self-compassion while addressing mood and behavior patterns. Cecilia draws on several evidence-based methods to tailor care to each person. She uses techniques that address negative thinking, manage intense emotions, and process difficult memories.
The goal is usually to help people gain more control over impulses, reduce distress, and improve relationships with themselves and others. She has particular experience with issues like addiction, bipolar and other mood disorders, and post-traumatic stress. Cecilia also supports people struggling with family of origin issues, divorce or separation, parenting stress, and first responder challenges.
People who work with her can expect clear explanations, a steady approach, and concrete practice between sessions. She guides clients through steps toward change while recognizing how life transitions and co-occurring problems can complicate recovery.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, values-driven steps despite uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, low motivation, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with concrete experiments. That approach often helps with worry, depression, and mood regulation. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills to reduce impulsivity and intense emotional reactions.Cecilia treats finding the right approach as a joint process. She will talk with each client about their goals and try different techniques until a good fit emerges. The plan is adjusted over time based on what is helpful and what isn’t, so clients are active collaborators in shaping their care.
Online therapy offers practical advantages for people with busy schedules or mobility limits. Video calls allow face-to-face connection and visual cues, while phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients send short updates or get support between sessions without arranging a full appointment. These formats make regular work on skills and goals easier to maintain alongside daily life.
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What this counselor 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