About Marie
Marie Urbina greets people with a calm, practical approach. She focuses on making short-term steps that ease daily stress and anxiety. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental and aims to help people feel heard and understood.
She uses straightforward methods to help people manage worry, sleep problems, anger, and relationship strain. Sessions are client-centered, which means the client and Marie set goals together. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and develop new coping habits.
Background and approach
Marie’s background includes 12 years working with people facing trauma, career pressures, parenting challenges, and life transitions. She holds LPCC and LMHC credentials and practices in California. Her experience covers a wide range of concerns, and she adapts tools to each person’s situation.
In sessions she blends mindfulness and motivational interviewing to build present-moment awareness and personal motivation. Narrative and solution-focused ways of working help people reframe difficult stories and try small experiments between meetings. The emphasis is on practical changes that can fit into daily life.
People who prefer clear steps and respectful listening often appreciate her approach. Marie aims to create a space where goals are clear and progress is measured in real-life changes. She invites people to bring what matters most to them and to work at a pace that feels manageable.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening carefully and following the client's lead. It helps people clarify what matters and set goals that feel achievable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify patterns of thought that increase anxiety and offers practical exercises to change them, which can reduce worry and improve sleep.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and the client discuss symptoms, life demands, and preferences to decide which methods to try first. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helpful and what feels doable.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, journaling prompts, or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
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