Lorraine "Lorrie" Urbaniak, LMFT

Lorraine "Lorrie" Urbaniak is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Colorado who helps people reconnect with themselves amid the demands of work, family, and obligation. She centers her work on what clients bring to each session and follows the issues that feel most urgent, guiding individuals and families to find their own voice and next steps. Her approach blends client-centered listening with cognitive techniques and emotion-focused tools, including Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), to address stress, anxiety, chronic pain when applicable, relationship and family dynamics, grief, parenting challenges, self-esteem and life transitions.

She aims to help clients clarify perspective and develop practical coping strategies, while honoring each personâs choice to move their life in a new direction. Sessions focus on collaboration - identifying goals that matter most to the client and building skills tailored to those priorities. Lorraine provides calm, direct guidance and supports clients as they navigate change, strengthen relationships, and reclaim a sense of purpose and balance.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Client-centered therapy emphasizes an accepting, empathic stance that follows what the client brings to the room. It helps people reconnect with their own values and voice by prioritizing the clientâs goals and building a trusting therapeutic relationship.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful patterns of thought and behavior. CBT offers practical strategies for addressing anxiety, stress, depression, and coping with life changes through skills such as thought restructuring and behavioral experiments.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on understanding and reshaping emotional responses within relationships. EFT can be useful for improving communication, resolving attachment-related concerns, and strengthening bonds between partners or family members.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist will work collaboratively with each client to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She tailors sessions over time, adjusting techniques as progress and priorities evolve.

Online therapy offers flexible access to licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to schedule care around work and family obligations, stay connected during life transitions, and maintain continuity of support from wherever the client is located.