Marie Urbina

Marie Urbina is a licensed counselor with 12 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and major life changes. She takes a calm, respectful approach and aims to make sessions feel approachable and useful. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental and she focuses on practical steps people can try between meetings.

Marie uses straightforward methods to clarify goals and reduce overwhelm. She blends client-centered conversation with cognitive-behavioral tools and mindfulness exercises to address unhelpful thoughts, sleep problems, and daily stress. Motivational interviewing helps when someone wants to make a change but feels stuck.

Her background includes work with survivors of trauma and people coping with parenting and career pressures. She also supports those dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and body-image issues. Marie draws on a range of approaches so she can tailor sessions to each person’s situation.

Marie holds LPCC and LMHC credentials in California and brings practical, goal-focused sessions. She helps people set clear, achievable steps and reviews progress regularly. Her aim is to help clients feel more capable in daily life and better able to handle transitions.

To begin, she asks people to name priorities and pick small changes to try. Sessions mix talk, problem-solving, and grounding or mindfulness practices. Over time the work focuses on steady progress and finding ways to make life feel more manageable.

How Marie Uses Practical Approaches in Online Work

Marie often combines client-centered conversation with cognitive-behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. Client-centered work means the session focuses on the person’s concerns and goals, with the therapist listening carefully and reflecting what matters most. Cognitive-behavioral techniques look at unhelpful thoughts and habits and teach specific strategies to change them, which can help with anxiety, sleep, and stress. Mindfulness therapy uses simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, useful for managing overwhelm and emotional ups and downs.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Marie will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what is helping. This helps make sessions feel relevant and practical over time.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, avoid travel time, and maintain continuity during life transitions. It also allows for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight and for using mindfulness exercises or thought-work between sessions to support steady progress.