About Zoya
Zoya McCants is a licensed mental health counselor and counselor educator who brings 17 years of experience to her practice in New Jersey. She holds the LMHC and the LPC and focuses on supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, and coaching for life transitions.
Her work centers women and birthing people navigating fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, loss, and identity shifts across the lifespan. She combines trauma-informed care with somatic methods and cognitive-behavioral ideas.
Background and approach
Narrative work helps people reframe painful stories about themselves. Zoya pays close attention to how culture and systems shape experience and to the impact of shame and guilt on day-to-day life. Sessions aim to be collaborative and practical.
She helps people notice bodily reactions, name unhelpful thoughts, and try new ways of communicating. Goals are set together and adjusted as needed. Zoya emphasizes self-compassion, clearer communication, and finding purpose after major life changes.
She draws on clinical teaching and supervision experience to shape thoughtful, evidence-based care. Her approach supports both immediate coping and longer-term growth. People seeking help for panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, infertility-related distress, relationship rupture, or life-direction questions will find focused attention on those concerns.
Zoya works in English and practices from New Jersey, integrating multicultural awareness into every stage of therapy.
Approaches that translate to online care
Zoya integrates trauma-informed work and cognitive-behavioral techniques that adapt well to remote sessions. Trauma-informed methods focus on pacing and safety, helping people track triggers and learn grounding skills that reduce overwhelm. Cognitive-behavioral techniques break problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and offer concrete tools like thought records and behavior experiments to try between sessions.She also uses somatic-focused practices to help people notice bodily responses to stress and practice simple regulation exercises. These body-based strategies can be taught over video and reinforced via short messages or phone check-ins so clients can build skills outside the session.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they try techniques, monitor how they feel, and adapt the plan over time to make progress that fits daily life.
Online formats offer practical benefits: video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text messaging support quick check-ins or reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work between meetings.
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What this counselor 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