About Cecilia
Cecilia Zinnikas helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or big life changes. She is an LPC and an LCPC with 33 years of experience in Oklahoma. Cecilia aims to create a calm, steady space where someone can say what feels hard and begin to make small changes that matter.
She focuses on practical tools to manage mood swings, low self-esteem, and impulsivity. Cecilia also addresses trauma, guilt, shame, and patterns that keep people stuck.
How Cecilia works
Sessions often look at how past hurts affect present choices and relationships. Cecilia uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to notice unhelpful thinking and on mindfulness to build steady attention.
Other methods she uses include acceptance and commitment work, skills from dialectical behavior therapy, and EMDR for trauma processing when appropriate. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Cecilia helps set clear goals, practices new skills in session, and assigns simple steps to try between meetings.
The emphasis is on usable changes that fit into everyday life. People come to work on addiction, bipolar mood challenges, parenting stress, family-of-origin issues, and coping after separation or disaster. Cecilia also supports those dealing with co-occurring diagnoses, dissociation, personality-related struggles, and first responder concerns.
Cecilia lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Cecilia works with
The areas below are the ones Cecilia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 33 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
How Cecilia’s methods translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting driven by them. It focuses on values and small actions that move someone toward a meaningful life, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, a good fit for mood and stress challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal responses, useful when impulsivity or intense emotions are a concern.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Cecilia will work with each person to choose what fits their goals, preferences, and daily routines. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods as progress or challenges emerge, so the work changes with the client’s needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity when schedules change.
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