About Norah
Norah Knabe is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing since 2011. She works with individuals who are coping with strong emotions, relationship strain, stress, and life transitions. Her approach aims to help people feel heard and take practical steps forward.
Norah spends sessions helping clients name emotions and learn skills to manage them. She uses straightforward techniques to reduce distress while also looking at what keeps problems going.
How Norah works
She believes in validating feelings and in pacing change so it feels doable. In therapy she mixes talk and action. She teaches emotion regulation strategies and problem-solving tools.
She also explores relationship patterns and communication to help people feel more connected and less stuck. Her practice includes work with concerns like anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, body image and eating issues, ADHD, burnout, and intimacy-related problems. She also focuses on areas such as attachment, caregiver stress, blended family challenges, and recovery from domestic violence or family-of-origin wounds.
Norah offers online and outpatient sessions and incorporates animal-assisted ideas when appropriate. She draws on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral methods, dialectical behavior ideas, emotionally focused techniques, and mindfulness to match each person’s needs. Her style is calm, practical, and rooted in collaboration.
Norah lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Norah works with
The areas below are the ones Norah selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so people feel understood and accepted; it helps when someone needs a steady, empathetic space to sort out feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, known as DBT, offers concrete tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships, which can help with intense emotions and impulse challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Norah collaborates with each person to identify which methods fit their goals and day-to-day life. She adapts techniques over time so sessions stay focused on what the client needs and prefers.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for in-depth conversation and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins, written reflections, and flexible contact between scheduled visits. These formats make scheduling easier and let people keep continuity of care across busy lives.
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