Cecilia Zinnikas, LPC, LCPC

Cecilia Zinnikas helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, mood swings, or past trauma. She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor and an LCPC - Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 33 years of experience and practices in Oklahoma. Her style is straightforward and focused on practical skills that make daily life more manageable.

She spends time learning what matters most to each person and looks for patterns that keep problems repeating. Sessions include tools for coping with strong emotions, managing impulses, and reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety. Cecilia often guides people through practical behavior changes and skills practice between sessions.

Cecilia works with issues such as guilt, shame, control struggles, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people facing life changes like divorce or separation and those managing mood disorders or addiction challenges. Her background includes extensive work on family of origin issues and first responder concerns.

Her approach uses methods like cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, EMDR, and mindfulness practices when appropriate. Treatment plans are tailored to each person’s goals and situation rather than a one-size-fits-all model.

In sessions she focuses on building self-compassion, clearer thinking, and reliable coping strategies. The aim is to reduce immediate distress while also creating lasting changes that improve everyday functioning and relationships.

How evidence-based approaches work online

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching practical skills and step-by-step behavior changes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people accept difficult feelings while committing to actions that match their values; it can be useful when someone wants to live a more meaningful life despite ongoing distress.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal skills. It can be helpful for strong emotions, impulsivity, and pattern-based relationship problems. Cecilia will work collaboratively to choose approaches that fit each person’s goals, mixing methods when helpful and adjusting over time based on progress and preference.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and skills demonstration, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work consistently when travel or scheduling is difficult.