Marie Urbina, LPCC, LMHC

Marie Urbina is a licensed counselor with 12 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and midlife transitions. She writes in a warm, nonjudgmental way and focuses on practical steps clients can use right away. Sessions center on the person in front of her and on goals they want to reach.

Marie uses straightforward tools like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people manage difficult thoughts and overwhelming feelings. She also draws on client-centered and motivational approaches to support people as they decide what changes matter most. This combination is aimed at finding small, concrete shifts that fit daily life.

Her background includes work with trauma and survivors of abuse, as well as common life challenges such as career stress, parenting strain, sleep disruption, and problems with self-esteem. She has experience across a wide range of concerns and helps people untangle patterns that keep them stuck.

In sessions she listens, reflects, and offers exercises or experiments clients can try between meetings. She helps people set clear, realistic goals and checks progress along the way. The focus is on what feels helpful and doable for each person.

Marie is licensed in California as an LPCC and as an LMHC in Florida. She provides care in English and draws on her years of practice to adapt methods to each person’s needs. If someone wants to explore how therapy might help during a midlife change, she can work together with them to set a plan.

How Marie Uses Practical Approaches Online

Marie draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness as core tools. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or depression. Mindfulness teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and focus.

She also uses client-centered ways of working, which means she listens closely and follows the goals the client sets. Figuring out which approach to use is part of the work. The therapist and client will decide together based on needs, goals, and what feels most useful.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the specific session formats before booking since formats were not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so appointments fit around work or family responsibilities. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT exercises, mindfulness practices, and goal planning to an online setting to help people make steady progress.