About Lorraine
Lorraine "Lorrie" Urbaniak is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) who helps people facing anxiety, stress, and big life changes. She focuses on practical steps that move a person forward. Her approach centers on what the client brings to the session and what feels most urgent to address.
With 13 years holding an LMFT credential in Colorado, Lorrie draws on long experience supporting people through grief, relationship strain, parenting stresses, career transitions, and questions about life purpose.
Background and approach
She helps clients untangle family of origin issues, blended family challenges, adoption and foster care concerns, and caregiver burnout. She also works with concerns like low self-esteem, body image, codependency, and isolation. In session she listens first, then helps clients find their own voice and next steps.
She uses client-centered methods alongside cognitive techniques and emotionally focused ideas to shift thoughts and patterns that get in the way. Motivational interviewing and mindfulness skills are woven in to support concrete behavior change and stress reduction. Lorrie offers a straightforward, supportive style that aims to reconnect people to what matters.
She frames work as a collaboration and helps clients set goals that fit their life. Practical tools and short exercises are often part of sessions so clients leave with things to try between meetings. Clients can expect clear conversation about coping strategies, communication, and decision points.
Lorrie also addresses specific topics such as divorce and separation, midlife transitions, commitment issues, and compassion fatigue. She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the client's priorities and feelings. The therapist follows what matters most to the client and helps them name goals and next steps in straightforward language. This approach is useful for people dealing with life transitions, family stress, or uncertainty.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It uses simple exercises and small experiments to shift thinking and create new habits, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, concentrates on understanding emotions and improving emotional connection in relationships and within oneself.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to the client's needs, goals, and preferences. Decisions about which tools to use are collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people see nonverbal cues and do exercises together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work for quick updates, coaching-style support, or for people who prefer writing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try methods in real time between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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