About Nora
Nora McNally is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 15 years of experience helping adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. She works with people dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, grief, mood disorders, and issues around self-esteem and anger. Nora practices in New York and conducts sessions in English.
Nora focuses on building a trusting relationship first. She treats each person’s story as unique and starts by listening closely.
How Nora works
From there she and the client look at what is getting in the way of living a fuller life and set clear, practical goals together. Her approach combines several well-known methods. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are offered for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based ideas to help with values, connection, and long-standing patterns. Sessions tend to be straightforward and collaborative.
Nora helps people try new strategies between visits and checks what is or isn’t working. She emphasizes practical tools alongside space to process painful experiences. People often come for help after trauma, relationship strain, or big life transitions.
Nora aims to create a calm setting where clients can explore their feelings, practice new skills, and move toward more meaningful daily life.
Nora lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Nora works with
The areas below are the ones Nora selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How Nora’s approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to notice difficult thoughts without getting swept away. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns of behavior through clear exercises and homework. It often helps with anxiety, mood problems, and everyday stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving how someone interacts with others.Nora approaches choice of method as a collaborative process. She will listen to a person’s goals and preferences and then suggest approaches that fit those needs. Together they try techniques and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video lets the clinician and client see nonverbal cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option for talk therapy. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when someone needs shorter, more frequent contact. These formats increase flexibility and can help people keep therapy consistent alongside work, caregiving, or other obligations.
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