About Connie
Connie Zmijewski is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in North Carolina. She draws on two decades of professional experience to help people manage anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and phobias. She treats everyday problems like sleep disruption, parenting stress, anger, and self-esteem struggles with steady, practical support.
Her approach centers on the client and their goals. She listens first and helps people notice strengths they already have. Sessions are collaborative and focused on small, achievable steps that fit a person's life.
Background and approach
She works with practical tools as well as reflective conversation. Connie uses a mix of methods including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She also draws on client-centered and Jungian ideas when they fit a person's needs.
This lets her adapt work to the issue and the person rather than forcing one single method. People come to her for help with a wide range of concerns - parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, ADHD, chronic illness, and career stress. She also supports coping with major life changes and compassion fatigue.
Her experience makes her comfortable combining short-term skills work with deeper personal exploration. Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled online. Connie emphasizes clear goals and steady progress.
She encourages people to take a small step toward help when they are ready.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Connie commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). ACT focuses on clarifying personal values and taking actions that align with those values, which helps with anxiety, avoidance, and life changes. CBT looks at thinking patterns and teaches specific skills to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep problems.She also brings a client-centered stance to sessions, giving attention to each person's story and priorities. Choosing an approach is collaborative - the therapist and client decide together what methods fit the person's goals, comfort level, and the issues they want to address. Adjustments are made over time as progress and needs become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer flexibility for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help fit therapy into work, family life, and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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