About Cecilia
Cecilia Zinnikas is a licensed counselor practicing in Oklahoma with 33 years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, mood disorders, and attention-related challenges such as ADHD. Cecilia helps clients sort through intense feelings like guilt, shame, anger, and impulsivity so they can make clearer decisions in daily life.
She uses practical tools and steady guidance rather than long lectures. In sessions she focuses on concrete coping skills, behavior changes, and ways to notice and shift unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Clients can expect a calm, accepting tone and straightforward suggestions to try between sessions. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including addictions, bipolar disorder, personality issues, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people facing family of origin wounds, divorce or separation, and the practical fallout from disasters or first responder stress.
Cecilia pays attention to how different struggles show up together and adjusts care accordingly. Cecilia draws on several evidence-informed approaches like cognitive behavioral work, mindfulness, and therapies aimed at trauma processing. She blends methods to fit each person’s needs rather than using a single fixed method.
The aim is skills you can use at home and tools that help day-to-day functioning. Prospective clients work with her by completing an online matching questionnaire and scheduling a session. Services are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging under a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, then move toward chosen values and small actions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) supports processing traumatic memories so they feel less overwhelming and intrusive.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Cecilia will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that fit those needs. She adjusts strategies over time and checks in about what is or isn’t helping so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and EMDR-style work, while phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make quick check-ins and brief coaching easier between full sessions. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days and to keep steady momentum on goals.
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What this therapist 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
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