Zina Mercil, LPC

Zina Mercil is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with ten years of clinical experience. She works with adults who are feeling stuck after changes in work, relationships, or health, and with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, burnout, and questions about career or life purpose. Sessions focus on making small, practical changes that help clients regain steadiness and clearer decision-making.

Zina draws on approaches such as attachment-based work, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), existential ideas, mindfulness techniques, and motivational interviewing. In conversation she helps people name what matters to them now and notice patterns that get in the way. Practical skills, brief experiments, and grounding practices are used alongside reflective discussion.

She has worked with people coping with chronic illness, caregiving strain, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and cancer-related stress. She also supports those dealing with isolation, control issues, communication problems, and the moral or emotional effects of first responder work.

In sessions Zina encourages clearer communication and reduced self-criticism. She helps people break down decisions into manageable steps, test changes between meetings, and build coping strategies for stress and grief. Conversations are paced to match what each person can take on.

Her background includes a decade of clinical work with adults across medical, workplace, and life-transition contexts. Zina uses mindfulness and DBT skills to address anxiety and emotional regulation, paired with attachment-focused exploration to look at relationship patterns and meaning. She aims to help people move toward practical next steps when they are unsure what comes next.

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