About Mirta
Mirta Martinez-Kekenak is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of experience helping people facing depression, anxiety, trauma, and struggles with self-esteem. She practices in New York and guides clients through difficult emotional moments with steady, practical care. Mirta focuses on real concerns that affect daily life like relationship stress and worries that keep people stuck.
Her style is straightforward and warm. Sessions aim to make sense of painful patterns and reduce emotional overwhelm.
Background and approach
Mirta helps people notice how attachment wounds and communication problems shape their relationships. She also works on issues of guilt, shame, and finding a clearer sense of life purpose. In therapy with Mirta, conversation is paired with actionable steps.
Clients leave sessions with techniques they can try between meetings. The work moves at a pace set by the person seeking help, with attention to safety and emotional readiness. Mirta draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to support recovery from trauma and to build stronger self-worth.
She helps people rebuild trust in themselves and others, and to practice self-love in everyday life. Over time the focus shifts from coping to making choices that match personal values. People who prefer a compassionate, practical approach often find this style helpful.
Mirta encourages small experiments, clearer communication, and steady progress toward a life that feels more manageable and meaningful.
Therapeutic tools for online healing
Mirta uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing patterns and healing past hurts. One common approach she uses works on trauma recovery by helping people process painful memories in manageable steps, reduce reactivity, and regain a sense of control. Another approach targets relationship and attachment issues by mapping how early bonds affect current communication and trust, then practicing new ways to connect and set boundaries.Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. Mirta collaborates with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan over time. She explains options plainly and helps clients pick practices they can use between sessions.
Online therapy here offers flexible session types to fit daily life. Video calls let people meet face to face from wherever they are, phone sessions work well when video isn’t possible, live chat is handy for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English