- Client-centered
- Focus on sleep
- Mindfulness and CBT
About Marie
Marie Urbina greets people with a calm, practical approach to common life stressors. She is a licensed mental health counselor with 12 years of experience. Marie focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, relationship strain, sleep difficulties, parenting demands, and career worries.
Her sessions are client-centered and straightforward. She listens, helps clarify immediate goals, and works alongside people to find what helps in day-to-day life. Conversations move at the client’s pace and focus on useful steps rather than jargon.
Marie draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also uses mindfulness practices to build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Motivational interviewing is part of her toolkit when someone wants help making a change but feels stuck.
People often come for help with trauma, coping with life transitions, anger, self-esteem, and sleep problems. She also addresses more specific concerns such as attachment issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, and the practical strains around adoption or blended family situations.
Marie works in California and offers therapy in English. Her style is warm, respectful, and nonjudgmental. She aims to help people leave sessions with clear, manageable next steps and a sense of direction.
To start, she encourages a simple process to match goals with workable plans. Marie helps people translate insight into habits that fit everyday life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered work focuses on the person in front of the therapist. The approach means sessions follow the client’s concerns, priorities, and pace while the therapist offers listening and support to clarify goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It helps people try small changes in thinking and actions to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and cope with stress.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness exercises to lessen reactivity and improve focus. These practices can be useful for people managing worry, sleep problems, or emotional ups and downs.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss what seems most helpful based on the client’s needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust methods as work progresses.
Confirm the current session options before booking so you know how sessions are delivered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing appointments around work or family schedules. It can also support shorter check-ins or weekly sessions that build practical habits between meetings.
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Experience
12+ years
Credentials
Florida, California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What issues does Marie commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, sleep difficulties, parenting concerns, anger, self-esteem, and career questions.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Sessions are client-centered, warm, and nonjudgmental. She listens, validates, and works with clients to set clear, manageable goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Marie has 12 years of experience working with a wide range of concerns and backgrounds.
Which credentials and location apply to this clinician?
She holds LPCC and LMHC credentials and practices in California.
Does she offer services in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Marie?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.