About Lorraine
Lorraine "Lorrie" Urbaniak welcomes people who are ready to make changes but feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to begin. She focuses on helping clients reconnect with their own priorities and voice so they can take clearer next steps.
Background and approach
Lorrie offers a calm, straightforward presence and listens for the concerns that matter most to each person. She uses practical tools to address stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and life transitions.
Sessions move at the client's pace and emphasize small, achievable changes. Lorrie often blends conversation-focused work with exercises that help shift thinking and behavior in daily life.
With 13 years of counseling experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT, she brings a long history of supporting people through grief, career shifts, relationship difficulties, and parenting stress. Her background also includes work with adoption and foster care issues and blended family challenges.
Lorrie draws on client-centered approaches to keep the work focused on each person's goals. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques for changing unhelpful thinking and emotionally-focused ideas to clarify important feelings in relationships.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing add ways to build awareness and strengthen motivation. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged to fit different schedules.
She accepts international clients and offers a range of online formats for people who need flexibility. The process begins with a short questionnaire and a scheduling step to match needs and timing.
Approaches for online sessions and how they help
Client-centered therapy focuses on the client's own goals and experience, giving people space to name what matters most and move at their own pace. It is helpful for finding clarity during life changes and for rebuilding a sense of self.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thinking patterns and actions that keep problems going and teaches concrete strategies to change them. It is often used for anxiety, stress, depression, and self-esteem work.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name important feelings, which can improve how they respond to emotional pain and relationship tensions. It supports deeper emotional awareness and clearer communication.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be a collaborative decision. The therapist will listen to your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust as you learn what helps most.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options offer scheduling flexibility and different ways to stay connected to the work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English