Dr. Nazeer Zerka II
Practical, goal-focused care for complex life issues
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Nazeer
Dr. Nazeer Zerka II is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people coping with stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, ADHD, addiction, and relationship and family concerns. He brings nine years of clinical experience to conversations about grief, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, career strain, and managing life changes.
He also addresses compassion fatigue and a range of personality and attachment questions. In sessions he emphasizes direct, down-to-earth interaction. He listens first, then works with each person to set clear goals and practical steps.
Background and approach
He uses straightforward tools rather than jargon so people can try ideas between sessions. Dr. Zerka draws on approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior tools, existential ideas, and mindfulness practices.
He mixes those methods to match what a person needs at the time. Therapy can focus on symptom relief, skill building, or making meaning after difficult events. He is licensed in Indiana as an LCSW, and his practice is informed by real-life experience as well as clinical training.
Sessions can include coaching-style conversations when that fits someone’s goals. Dr. Zerka aims to create a practical plan people can use in day-to-day life.
If someone prefers more structured work he may use CBT or DBT skills. If someone wants to explore values and purpose he draws on existential ideas. Mindfulness is included when grounding and emotional regulation are priorities.
Therapeutic approaches for online care and practical skills
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a trusting relationship and following the person’s priorities. It helps when someone needs empathy, a chance to be heard, and support in naming goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related routines, and many day-to-day problems.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for regulating emotions, handling distress, and improving interactions with others. DBT techniques are often used when emotional overwhelm or impulsive reactions are a concern.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences and adjusts the plan over time based on what helps.
Online therapy makes these approaches more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation from home. Phone, live chat, or text messaging give options for checking in, practicing skills, or getting support between longer sessions. For many people this range of formats helps therapy fit school, work, and family life while keeping progress steady.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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