About Lorraine
Lorraine "Lorrie" Urbaniak offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by life changes. She helps clients notice what matters most and start small, manageable steps toward feeling more like themselves. Lorraine uses a warm, conversational style that focuses on the client's priorities in the moment.
She practices as an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and brings 13 years of experience to online work based in Colorado. Lorraine centers sessions on whatever issue the person brings, whether that is stress, anxiety, grief, or challenges around parenting and family roles.
How Lorraine works
She encourages clients to find their own voice and to try things that feel right for them. Sessions often include talking through thoughts and behaviors and experimenting with new ways to respond. Lorraine draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thinking and on emotionally-focused approaches to improve connection and expression.
Mindfulness skills are used to manage stress and build presence in daily life. She also integrates motivational techniques to help people find direction and keep moving toward goals like career shifts, midlife changes, or repairing important relationships. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care issues, blended family concerns, body image, caregiver stress, and codependency.
People who prefer a supportive, client-centered guide tend to do well with her approach. Lorraine aims to meet each person where they are and to help them take clear, realistic steps forward.
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What Lorraine works with
The areas below are the ones Lorraine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. The therapist creates a supportive space and helps the person identify what matters most and what to try next. This approach is useful for people who want a coach-like partner to help them find direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors together. It helps people notice patterns that increase anxiety or depression and then practice different responses. CBT is often used for stress, anxiety, and changing habits that get in the way of goals.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people get clearer about their feelings and improve how they connect with others. It can be helpful for relationship tension, communication problems, and family of origin issues.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Lorraine will work with each person to figure out which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well when visual connection matters, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep continuity during transitions.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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