About Marie
Marie Urbina helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, or big life changes. She is a licensed professional counselor with 12 years of experience and uses practical methods to help people feel more steady. Sessions are client-focused and designed to match each person’s goals and pace.
Marie uses an approachable, respectful style. She listens closely and offers clear tools to manage anxiety, anger, sleep problems, or low self-esteem.
How Marie works
She also addresses work and career concerns, parenting stress, and the emotional impact of illness or caregiving. Her work draws on client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try concrete changes. Mindfulness practices are offered for calming and focus, and motivational interviewing helps when someone is weighing change.
Narrative ideas are used to look at personal stories and find different meanings. Marie’s training and years in practice mean she can adapt methods to each situation. She supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment struggles, blended family issues, body image, and related concerns.
She also brings experience with long-term conditions, chronic pain, and the stresses of caregiving. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by a licensed professional based in California. Her credentials are LPCC and LMHC and her approach emphasizes collaboration, respect, and practical steps toward clearer choices and calmer days.
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What Marie works with
The areas below are the ones Marie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Registers | LPCC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How grounded methods translate to online therapy
Marie often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and helping clients set their own goals and pace. This approach is useful when someone needs a respectful space to sort priorities and decide on steps forward.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, a hands-on approach that looks at thoughts and behaviors and tries simple experiments to change patterns. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and low mood. Mindfulness therapy is another tool she offers - short practices that help reduce agitation and improve attention in day-to-day life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will check in about your needs, goals, and what feels useful, then adapt methods over time. This is a collaborative process and the client’s preferences guide which techniques are used.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and real-time feedback, phone calls can fit a busy schedule or use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging can work well for brief check-ins or step-by-step coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, manage follow-ups, and keep continuity even when schedules change.
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