Zoya McCants, LMHC, LPC

Zoya McCants is a licensed mental health counselor, counselor educator, and clinical supervisor who focuses her practice on women and reproductive mental health. With an approach grounded in clinical training and compassionate care, she supports people navigating infertility, pregnancy and postpartum transitions, loss, trauma, and identity shifts across the lifespan. She also provides treatment for trauma, major depression, anxiety, intimacy and relationship concerns, and related challenges that affect daily functioning.

Zoya integrates trauma-informed, somatic, cognitive-behavioral, and narrative techniques to tailor therapy to each person’s needs. She centers culturally responsive and liberatory practices, acknowledging how systemic factors and discrimination shape wellbeing and validating each individual’s lived experience. Her methods connect evidence-based strategies with attention to the body, story, and thought patterns to promote healing.

Her therapeutic stance honors each person’s unique journey and emphasizes areas such as self-love, communication, life purpose, and recovery from shame and guilt. She uses collaborative, strength-based counseling to help people rediscover resilience and build practical strategies for emotional wellbeing. Zoya is licensed as an LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) and an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) and brings 17 years of clinical experience to her work.

Therapeutic approaches for online care and healing

Zoya McCants draws on trauma-informed care to help people understand how past traumatic experiences affect current thoughts, feelings, and relationships. This approach emphasizes safety, pacing, and attention to how trauma shows up in daily life, and it can be helpful for those recovering from abuse, loss, or post-traumatic stress. She also uses somatic techniques that focus on the body - noticing physical sensations and learning regulation strategies - which can reduce bodily distress associated with anxiety, panic, and trauma.

In addition, Zoya integrates cognitive-behavioral methods to identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, offering practical tools for managing depression, anxiety, and stress. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process; Zoya works with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences and adjusts methods as therapy progresses to find the best fit.

Online therapy with Zoya is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care around work, caregiving, or geographic constraints while supporting consistent progress toward emotional and relational goals.