Norah Knabe, LMFT

Norah Knabe is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 15 years of clinical work based in Minnesota. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by listening, validating their experience, and offering practical steps forward. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at producing small, doable changes that add up over time.

Norah offers individual and relationship-focused support for a wide range of concerns. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with grief and life changes, and address relationship or intimacy-related issues. She also works with concerns around eating, addiction, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and caregiver strain.

Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with client-centered and mindfulness strategies. She teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation and behavior change while also creating space to be heard. Sessions typically mix skill practice, problem solving, and discussion about what matters to the person.

Norah uses techniques that reduce symptoms while also looking for the root causes of problems. She emphasizes clear goals and practical tools clients can use between sessions. She also has an interest in the therapeutic role of emotional support animals and how they can aid the healing process.

People who want a calm, down-to-earth therapist who gives usable strategies often find her approach helpful. She works with adults by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging and tailors sessions to each person’s needs. Her practice combines real-world skills with steady emotional support.

Practical approaches for online therapy

Norah commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and client-centered work in online sessions. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and address patterns that cause problems. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel understood and can find their own solutions.

She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas for emotion regulation when feelings feel overwhelming. DBT-style skills teach concrete tools for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and handling distress in the moment.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Norah will work with each person to set goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan over time. The aim is to combine practical skill work with a supportive therapeutic relationship so progress feels manageable.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow visual connection and longer, in-depth work. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or useful for short check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or people who prefer writing to speaking. Together these formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while using CBT, client-centered listening, and DBT skills as tools for change.