About Marie
Marie Urbina is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and life changes. She brings 12 years of experience and a calm, direct approach that aims to make sessions practical and understandable. She uses client-centered methods to listen and follow each person's goals.
Sessions are intended to be respectful and nonjudgmental, with the client guiding the pace and focus. Marie emphasizes clear steps people can try between meetings to build momentum.
Background and approach
Her work often includes cognitive-behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behavior patterns. Mindfulness practices are offered to help reduce reactivity and improve sleep. Motivational interviewing is used to clarify values and support change when someone feels stuck.
Marie has helped people cope with trauma and abuse, manage anger, address self-esteem and body-image concerns, and navigate career or parenting stress. She also supports those facing chronic illness, caregiving burdens, adoption and foster-care related issues, and other complex life circumstances. Marie holds the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor credential in California and the Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential in Florida.
She offers sessions in English and uses video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging so people can pick what works best for their schedule. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step connects a person with the right session format and time.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's goals. Online sessions let the therapist reflect concerns, validate feelings, and collaborate on next steps while the client leads the pace and topics.Cognitive-behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. In video or phone sessions, this can include setting brief homework tasks, tracking thought patterns between meetings, and practicing skills in real time with therapist feedback.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep. These techniques translate well to short guided exercises during video calls or to audio and text prompts between sessions for daily practice.
Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels useful, then adapt methods over time. That collaboration helps find the best fit rather than relying on one fixed method.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and skill practice. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make shorter check-ins and ongoing coaching easier to fit into a busy day. These options increase flexibility so therapy can fit into real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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