Certified Listener Poet,
Cohort 1 Fall 2021
Zina Mercil is a lover of people, connection, compassion, words, artistic expression, and life. In her roles she specializes in increasing personal awareness, growth, and performance while decreasing burnout and health consequences.
Zina is fascinated with mindfulness and the mind/body connection, particularly for professionals, healthcare providers, and patients, and has a MA in Somatic Counseling Psychology and BA in Neuroscience. She works primarily as a coach, presenter and facilitator in workplace well-being with high-achieving professionals and compassion fatigue and resilience with people working in fields of high trauma. Her past work spectrum as a therapist includes mind/body approaches to trauma, addiction, hospice, and life-altering medical setbacks.
Her first career was as a musical theater performer, and she maintains a deep love of all forms of creativity and the arts.