- Practical coping tools
- Focus on purpose
- Mindfulness rooted care
About Zina
Zina Mercil, LPC, helps adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She focuses on practical steps people can take to feel steadier and more purposeful. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at making small shifts feel manageable.
Zina draws on about 10 years of clinical experience in Colorado. She supports people dealing with workplace burnout, compassion fatigue, career questions, and health-related challenges. She also helps those wrestling with isolation, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and issues tied to aging.
In sessions she prioritizes clear goals and usable tools. Clients work on communication skills, lowering self-criticism, and rebuilding a sense of meaning after loss or transition. Mindfulness and present-moment practices are commonly used to reduce anxiety and improve coping.
Zina also integrates attachment-focused work to help people notice patterns in relationships. She uses techniques from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods guide practical steps when people feel stuck.
Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. She aims to help clients build routines that fit daily life, not add more pressure. People looking for support after a disaster, medical setback, job change, or other sudden shift often find this focused, steady style helpful.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationship patterns show up now. It helps people notice repeated interaction patterns and try different ways of relating to others and to themselves. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for handling intense emotions and tolerating distress, useful when anxiety or burnout feels overwhelming. Existential therapy looks at meaning and choice in life, supporting people facing big transitions, loss, or questions about purpose.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s goals, needs, and daily life. Sessions can include skill practice, guided reflection, and step-by-step planning to address specific problems like workplace stress or grief.
Session formats are not specified here, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use mindfulness exercises and behavioral coaching in the moment, which helps apply new skills between appointments.
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Experience
10+ years
Credentials
Colorado
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does Zina help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, and coping with life changes, plus career concerns and compassion fatigue.
What is her general therapy style?
The approach is collaborative and goal-focused, mixing skills practice with reflective work to build everyday coping strategies.
How much clinical experience is there?
She has about 10 years of experience working with adults on issues like burnout, health-related setbacks, and midlife transitions.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds a Colorado LPC license and sees clients from that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English only.
Can people from other countries work together?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are fees and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to work together?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.