About Nazeer
Dr. Nazeer Zerka II offers therapy for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, ADHD, and relationship or intimacy concerns. He also helps people coping with grief, career stress, sleep and eating problems, anger, self-esteem, and life changes.
Dr. Zerka II is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - with nine years of experience and he practices from Indiana. Sessions aim to be direct, upbeat, and practical to help people move forward from where they are.
Background and approach
Dr. Zerka II blends straightforward talk with practical skills. He focuses on what a person wants to change and builds steps toward those goals.
He uses listening, coaching, and evidence-based methods to help people manage symptoms and make daily life easier. He values humor and uses it when helpful to ease tension and keep sessions grounded. His work draws on client-centered principles that put each person’s experience first.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to identify unhelpful thinking and develop new skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness practices are offered to help with emotional regulation and stressful moments. Clients describe his style as warm and energetic, with a clear focus on problem solving and real-world skills.
He also speaks about neurodivergence from lived experience and uses that perspective to inform his approach where relevant. Outside of work, he enjoys basketball, weightlifting, yoga, reading, and light TV comedies. Dr.
Zerka II invites people to approach therapy as a team effort. He aims to help clients set realistic goals, track progress, and adjust strategies so therapy stays useful and relevant.
How his approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and shaping sessions around what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard, clarify goals, and set a pace that fits their needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, and teaches practical skills to change patterns that are causing distress. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers emotion regulation, distress-tolerance, and interpersonal skills which can be helpful for intense emotions and relationship strain.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the early work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals, learning style, and daily life. Treatment is adjusted over time based on what helps most, so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching moments, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options give flexibility to meet regularly and keep progress moving forward.
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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