Norah Knabe
Calm guidance for emotional and relationship struggles
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Norah
Norah Knabe is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 15 years of experience based in Minnesota. She offers therapy in multiple formats and focuses on helping people manage strong emotions, stress, and relationship concerns. Her approach emphasizes listening, validation, and practical steps clients can use between sessions.
Clients can expect straightforward support that names feelings and creates clear coping tools. She teaches emotion regulation strategies and offers techniques aimed at reducing symptoms while also exploring the underlying issues.
Background and approach
Sessions are described in simple terms so people know what to expect. Norah uses a mix of well-established methods to match each person’s needs. She draws on evidence-informed strategies to teach skills, shift unhelpful patterns, and strengthen emotional insight.
The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. She also brings an interest in animal-assisted work and the use of emotional support animals when appropriate. That interest informs how she crafts safety and regulation strategies for some clients.
Communication and validation are central to her style. Her practice style is warm, direct, and collaborative. She helps clients choose practical steps and follows up on how those steps are working.
For people who feel stuck, she offers a calm, steady presence and concrete tools to move forward.
How her approaches shape online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person without judgment. It helps people feel heard and supports building confidence to make changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness for strong feelings or recurring crises.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals and preferences, then suggest methods that fit those priorities. Together they try techniques and adjust the plan based on what helps most in day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to follow up between meetings. The variety of formats supports steady progress even when in-person visits are difficult, and allows clients to choose what feels most comfortable for them.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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