Lynda Nora Durand
Supportive counselor for parents and family concerns
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lynda
Lynda Nora Durand introduces herself simply as Nora. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with thirteen years of experience working in New York and Florida. Nora focuses on issues parents and families often face, including parenting, family stress, communication problems, and coping with major life changes.
Her tone is practical and compassionate, aimed at helping worried parents find steady ground. She trained with a Master in Mental Health Counseling and holds a certificate in Child and Adolescent Studies.
Background and approach
Early work included child welfare advocacy and counseling for youth in foster care. That background shaped how she listens and assesses what each person needs in the moment. Nora has also worked as a crisis counselor after Hurricane Sandy and ran a crisis respite center for people experiencing psychosis.
Those roles taught her how to support people through high-stress, frightening situations without judgment. She now works with victims of crimes and brings that crisis experience into her current practice. In sessions she keeps things straightforward.
She aims to meet people where they are and to create a calm, nonjudgmental space for parents and caregivers to talk through struggles. She adapts her methods to fit each person rather than following a rigid plan. Her tools include motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral ideas, along with trauma-focused and client-centered ways of working.
She uses creativity when needed, tailoring techniques to what helps a parent or caregiver feel safer, clearer, and more capable.
How her approaches translate to online family and parenting work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and respect. It means the therapist follows the parent or caregiver’s lead, offers empathy, and helps people clarify what matters to them. This approach helps when someone needs a calm space to sort feelings about family life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In simple steps it teaches practical skills for anxiety, stress, low mood, and parenting challenges. Sessions often include short exercises to try between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Nora will talk with each person about goals, needs, and preferences, and then suggest methods to try. She treats the process as collaborative and adjusts methods if something isn’t helping.
Online therapy offers real flexibility for busy parents. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions fit around schedules, and live chat or text-based messaging provide quick check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care while juggling family responsibilities.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New York
- Languages
- English
Next step
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