About Cecilia
Cecilia Zinnikas is a licensed counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, mood struggles, and challenges with self-esteem. She works plainly and directly to help people sort through painful memories and overwhelming emotions. Her style aims to make therapy understandable and usable in everyday life.
She brings 33 years of experience to sessions and draws on several approaches, including Somatic work, ACT, CBT, DBT, and EMDR, to find what fits each person.
Background and approach
Cecilia pays attention to how emotions show up in the body as well as in thoughts and behaviors. She supports people managing mood disorders, bipolar concerns, addictions, and impulsivity. People who reach out often want help with life transitions such as divorce or separation, family of origin issues, or parenting stress.
Cecilia also addresses grief, guilt, shame, codependency, and problems that co-occur across diagnoses. First responder issues and responses to disasters are within her scope of work. Sessions focus on learning practical skills, feeling safer in the body, and making steady changes that match the client’s goals.
Cecilia helps clients build coping tools for anger, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and shifting moods. She frames progress as small steps rather than sudden fixes. Her practice operates in Oklahoma and she conducts sessions in English.
New clients begin by completing a brief questionnaire and scheduling a session based on therapist availability.
How somatic and evidence-based methods work online
Cecilia uses Somatic approaches to help people notice how emotions show up in the body. Somatic work encourages simple body awareness and gentle movement or breath work to reduce reactivity and increase calm. It is often helpful for trauma, stress, and anger when feelings are stored in the body.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking action toward them even when hard feelings are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is another core tool that looks at unhelpful thoughts and teaches practical skills to change reactions. These approaches help with anxiety, depression, mood instability, and coping with life changes.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Cecilia will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then adapt methods to fit the individual. That collaboration helps tailor sessions to what a person needs most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. It makes it easier to schedule sessions around daily life and to use short check-ins or longer conversations as needed. Many people find online formats let them continue steady work while juggling other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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