About Zina
Zina Mercil is a licensed professional counselor who helps adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more purposeful. She works with people coping with work burnout, compassion fatigue, career questions, and health-related setbacks.
Zina also supports those dealing with isolation, caregiving strain, chronic illness, fertility and hospice concerns, and the emotional impact of disasters or first responder work.
Background and approach
Her goal is to reduce self-criticism and improve day-to-day functioning. Zina blends attentive listening with goal-focused tools. She draws on mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people clarify what matters and take manageable steps toward it.
She also uses attachment-based ideas and elements of dialectical behavior therapy to strengthen relationships and emotion regulation skills. Over a decade of practice in Colorado gives her experience with aging and geriatric issues, cancer and HIV/AIDS related care, and end-of-life conversations. She frames these topics in straightforward language and helps people find practical coping strategies for difficult moments.
Sessions move at the client’s pace and focus on realistic, doable changes. Zina supports people as they rebuild purpose, improve communication, and manage stressful environments. Her work aims to help clients leave sessions with clearer next steps and a little more breathing room.
Approaches that translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and behavior. In brief, it helps people notice patterns in close relationships and build safer ways of connecting and communicating. This can be useful for clients wanting better communication and more predictable emotional responses.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. It often helps with anxiety, stress, and managing difficult emotions by building moment-to-moment awareness and small coping routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and works best as a collaboration. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then try techniques that fit those needs. Plans are adjusted over time based on what feels helpful and doable.
Online sessions use video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, short coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into workdays, medical schedules, or caregiving routines.
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What this counselor 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