Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
- Depression
How Norah works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- Minnesota
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Norah
Norah Knabe is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Minnesota with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people navigate strong emotions, relationship difficulties, and stress. Her work often centers on practical strategies for handling daily challenges and moments of crisis.
Norah listens closely and helps people name what they are feeling. She offers tools to manage emotions and reduce symptoms while also looking at what may be causing those struggles.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to balance immediate relief with longer-term changes. Her approach blends supportive, client-centered care with proven skills-based methods. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to shift unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior skills to build emotional regulation.
Mindfulness techniques and emotionally-focused methods also appear in her work when they fit a person’s goals. Norah has experience addressing a wide range of concerns. These include anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, anger, addiction, eating and body image concerns, and challenges tied to identity and sexual orientation.
She also helps people facing career stress, caregiver strain, and transitions. Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Norah works to make therapy straightforward and useful, offering clear steps people can try between sessions.
She encourages reaching out and talking through what feels hard as the first step toward change.
What Norah works with
Everything Norah lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Norah's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Norah lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and following their pace. It emphasizes listening, validation, and helping people find their own solutions to emotional and relationship problems.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness, which can be useful for intense anger and strong emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. Choices are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to consistent care. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can support shorter updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
Questions people ask about Norah
What kinds of problems does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, addictions, grief, trauma and relationship concerns. The list also includes eating and body image issues, ADHD, career stress, and caregiver strain.
How would you describe her therapy style?
The style is practical and collaborative. She listens, validates feelings, and teaches concrete strategies to manage emotions and change unhelpful patterns.
What is her background and experience?
She has been practicing since 2011 and brings 15 years of clinical experience as an LMFT in Minnesota. Her work spans individual and relationship concerns.
Where is she based and what credential does she hold?
She is based in Minnesota and holds the credential LMFT, which stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
What language options are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only. International clients are not currently accepted.
Which session formats are offered?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging depending on what works best for the person.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to start therapy?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.