Maritza Ejenbaum , LCSW

Maritza Ejenbaum is a licensed clinical social worker with 36 years of experience helping people make meaningful changes in their lives. She practices in North Carolina and works in both English and Spanish. Her work centers on helping clients manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictive behaviors, and the effects of trauma and abuse.

She focuses on building skills that reduce the power of stress and anxiety so daily life feels more manageable. She also helps people boost self-esteem and address relationship or intimacy-related concerns. Maritza offers practical tools and straightforward education alongside therapeutic conversation.

Her approach is collaborative and respectful. She believes therapy should fit the person, not the other way around, and that earning trust is part of the therapist's job. Sessions emphasize understanding how early life experiences shape present-day reactions and choices.

She uses a mix of methods to match each person's needs, drawing on attachment-based ideas, client-centered principles, and cognitive-behavioral techniques among others. Maritza helps people explore values, life purpose, and decisions during midlife or other major transitions.

Clients with multicultural backgrounds, varied sexual orientations, and different spiritual views have been part of her practice. She also addresses concerns related to parenting, career changes, grief, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her style is warm, direct, and focused on practical steps toward change.

How therapeutic approaches translate online

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current connections and emotional responses; online sessions can help people notice those patterns and practice new ways of relating. Client-centered therapy emphasizes the person’s perspective and priorities, offering space to talk and be heard while the therapist follows the client's lead and supports self-directed change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns, which can be done in session and practiced between meetings.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then tailor methods to the client's needs. This collaborative planning makes it easier to try strategies and adjust them as progress is made.

Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging allows ongoing reflection and quick support between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity during life transitions.