Mirta Martinez-Kekenak, LCSW

Mirta Martinez-Kekenak is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience supporting people through challenging emotional experiences. She focuses on helping individuals manage depression and anxiety, improve relationship dynamics, navigate trauma recovery, and build lasting self-esteem. Her work often centers on addressing communication barriers, exploring life purpose, and healing attachment wounds to promote deeper self-understanding and growth.

Using evidence-based therapeutic techniques, Mirta creates a compassionate, non-judgmental space where clients can examine patterns of guilt and shame and develop practical strategies for change. She aims to empower clients to reconnect with their strengths, cultivate self-love, and form healthier relationships. Her approach emphasizes collaboration, resilience building, and practical skills that support meaningful, sustained progress.

Mirta draws on 20 years of clinical practice to guide clients through both immediate concerns and longer-term personal development. As an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - she integrates professional training with a supportive therapeutic style to help clients create more fulfilling life experiences and clearer direction for their personal growth.

Evidence-Based Care and Flexible Online Options

Mirta offers trauma-focused work that helps clients process and move forward from distressing experiences. This approach involves exploring how past events affect current feelings and behaviors and developing coping strategies to reduce their ongoing impact, which can be especially helpful for trauma recovery and related anxiety.

She also emphasizes interpersonal and communication-focused techniques aimed at improving relationship dynamics. These methods concentrate on understanding attachment patterns, enhancing communication skills, and resolving recurring conflicts to strengthen connections with partners, family, and others.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Mirta works together with each person to identify goals, assess what resonates, and adjust the plan as progress unfolds so the approach aligns with individual needs and preferences.

Online therapy with Mirta is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible access to care. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity of support from different locations within her service area, and choose the communication style that feels most comfortable for each client.