About Norah
Norah Knabe is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 15 years of clinical experience. She practices from Minnesota and offers care through several online formats. Norah focuses on helping people facing stress and anxiety and on related concerns like depression, relationship difficulties, and coping with life changes.
She meets people where they are and listens first. She validates emotions and helps clients name what they are feeling. From there she works with each person to build strategies that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
Norah uses practical tools to support emotional regulation and clearer communication. She combines approaches that teach skills for handling intense feelings and changing unhelpful thought patterns. Sessions can include problem-solving, mindfulness practices, and exercises to strengthen relationships.
Her work also addresses eating and addiction concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, and identity-related stress for LGBT clients. She helps with parenting strain, career stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue as well as issues like abandonment, body image, and caregiver stress. Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Norah aims to help clients take small, sustainable steps toward change. She also incorporates animal-assisted or emotional support animal approaches when appropriate and desired by the client.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and acceptance. The therapist offers a warm, nonjudgmental stance and helps clients speak about what matters most. This approach supports work on self-esteem, relationship concerns, and emotional healing.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical ways to change thoughts and behaviors that increase anxiety or depression. CBT is useful for stress, worry, eating concerns, and many everyday problems where changing patterns can reduce symptoms.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, brings skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It is often used when people struggle with emotion regulation, impulsive behavior, or repeated relationship conflict.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each client to identify goals and then chooses techniques that fit those goals and preferences. That means approaches can shift over time as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for interactive skill teaching and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat or messaging can fit short check-ins, homework review, or support between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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