Marie Urbina
Practical, respectful support for parents and adults
- Credentials
- LPCC, LMHC
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Marie
Marie Urbina greets each person with a calm, respectful presence. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting questions, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, and work concerns. Sessions are client-centered and driven by what the person wants to change.
Marie uses plain talk and clear steps so parents and adults can try things between sessions and see what helps. She has 12 years of counseling experience and holds LPCC and LMHC licenses.
Background and approach
LPCC stands for Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and LMHC stands for Licensed Mental Health Counselor. Marie blends several approaches to match each person’s needs instead of following a single method. In sessions she uses elements of cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and practice different responses.
She also draws on mindfulness techniques to help with stress and sleep. Motivational interviewing helps people make practical changes they actually want to keep. Marie aims to make therapy straightforward and respectful.
She listens first, then helps set clear goals and a plan. People leave sessions with small, doable steps to practice between meetings. Marie is based in California and works in English.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client’s life.
How Marie Uses Talk Strategies Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s priorities. The therapist creates space for people to say what matters and then helps them set goals and next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior. It helps people try new responses to reduce anxiety, manage anger, or improve sleep.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Marie will talk with clients about their goals, try an approach, and adjust based on what feels useful. Decisions about methods and pacing are collaborative and based on the person’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. These formats make it easier to meet from home, on a break, or between other obligations. They also let people use short check-ins, longer weekly sessions, or a mix of formats to stay consistent while juggling parenting and work.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida, California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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