About Nazeer
Dr. Nazeer Zerka II offers support for a wide range of concerns, including ADHD, anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, addiction, and relationship challenges. He presents a direct, approachable style and aims to help people make practical changes in day-to-day life.
He uses plain language and a mix of therapy and coaching. Sessions focus on real problems like sleep, concentration, work functioning, and interpersonal skills. The tone is often candid and encouraging, with room for humor when it helps relieve tension.
Background and approach
Dr. Zerka combines client-centered work with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. He also draws on existential and mindfulness approaches when those suit a person's goals.
Together these methods shape sessions that move between skill building and talking through deeper meaning. He brings nine years of professional experience and holds an LCSW, licensed in Indiana. That background informs practical strategies for coping with life changes, managing emotions, and improving daily routines that affect attention and mood.
People who are neurodivergent may find his perspective relatable, and he notes lived experience that informs his approach. Outside of sessions he enjoys basketball, weightlifting, yoga, and reading, and he often mixes straightforward coaching with traditional therapy work. Sessions aim to help clients set small, achievable goals.
The focus is on what a person wants to change now and how to get there with steady steps and clear tools.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and tailoring sessions to what the client wants to work on. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches concrete skills to manage symptoms like anxiety, depression, and challenges with attention. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication, which can help when strong emotions get in the way of daily functioning.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which tools to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which let people choose what fits their routine. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and working on nonverbal cues, while phone sessions can fit a shorter break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, and family commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- 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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