Zina Mercil, LPC
Colorado · 10 years in practice
Zina Mercil is a licensed professional counselor who helps adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes.
License and registration
- LPC, Colorado
- LPC.0014243 · expires August 2027
- NPI
- 1285588947 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Zina
Zina Mercil is a licensed professional counselor who helps adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She works with people who feel burned out, overwhelmed by caregiving or health issues, or unsure about what comes next in work and life. Zina aims to make conversations direct and usable so clients can try new ways of coping between sessions.
She draws on existential therapy to help people find meaning and clarity during transitions.
Background and approach
Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationship patterns and communication. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness practices provide concrete skills for managing strong emotions and stress. Zina brings ten years of clinical experience in Colorado to her practice as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor.
That background includes supporting people through medical challenges, hospice and end-of-life concerns, fertility and cancer-related stress, and caregiver strain. She also helps with career questions and compassion fatigue among helping professionals. Sessions focus on building self-understanding, lowering self-criticism, and creating clearer next steps.
She uses coaching-like tools alongside therapy to help clients set achievable goals. Expect a collaborative, straightforward style that matches tools to a person’s life situation. Practical concerns like communication problems, chronic pain or illness, isolation, and guilt or forgiveness are all within her scope.
Zina combines skills-based work with attention to values so people can move toward more meaning and steadiness in daily life.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Zina lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Career difficulties
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Zina names
- Existential Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Zina’s approaches translate to online care
Existential Therapy helps people name what matters to them and face big life questions. In online sessions this approach supports work on purpose, meaning, and choices during transitions or illness.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in relationships and how those patterns affect feelings and communication. Used online, it helps clients identify triggers and practice new ways of relating that improve day-to-day interactions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. Those skills translate well to video or phone sessions and can be practiced between meetings with short coaching-style check-ins via text or chat.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean focusing on meaning-making, learning new emotional skills, or mixing approaches to address caregiving stress, grief, or career decisions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text are helpful for quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options offer flexibility for different schedules and life demands while keeping therapy accessible.
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Questions people ask
What concerns might be addressed in sessions?
Common topics include stress, anxiety, grief, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and career questions, as well as issues like chronic illness, caregiver stress, and isolation.
How would you describe the therapy style?
The style is collaborative and practical. Zina combines meaning-focused conversation with skills from DBT, mindfulness, and solution-focused work to help people manage emotions and take steps forward.
What is Zina's professional background?
She has ten years of clinical experience working with adults on transitions, medical-related stress, burnout, and end-of-life concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor credential and is located in Colorado.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Therapy can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
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