Norah Knabe, LMFT

Minnesota · 15 years in practice

Norah Knabe is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT) with 15 years of experience in Minnesota.

License and registration

LMFT, Minnesota: 2731 · expires December 2026
NPI: 1902296536 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 15
Languages: English

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About Norah

Norah Knabe is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT) with 15 years of experience in Minnesota. She offers care for people navigating strong emotions, stress, and relationship problems. Norah focuses on listening, helping clients name their feelings, and finding steps toward change.

She works with people facing anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and concerns about self-esteem or body image. She also supports those dealing with trauma, parenting stress, career changes, and challenges related to attention or impulse control.

Background and approach

Her approach includes practical skill building alongside deeper work to understand patterns. Norah uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside client-centered methods and cognitive-behavioral tools. She teaches emotion regulation strategies and motivational techniques to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.

Mindfulness and dialectical skills are added when they fit a person’s needs. Sessions can include discussions about attachment, abandonment wounds, blended family dynamics, communication problems, and intimate relationship struggles. She also brings experience addressing caregiver strain, aging concerns, and issues that come from family of origin patterns.

Sessions are shaped to match each person’s goals and pace. Her style is validating and straightforward. She aims to hear a client’s story, point out helpful patterns, and offer tools to practice between sessions.

People who want both support and practical strategies often find this approach useful.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Norah lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

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 names

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Online support

How Norah integrates emotion work with online care

Norah draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people identify and shift painful emotional patterns that affect relationships and daily life. EFT emphasizes understanding and reshaping emotional responses so people can feel more connected to themselves and others.

She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening, acceptance, and helping clients lead the work. This approach is useful for building trust and clarifying personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to break down unhelpful thoughts and develop concrete skills for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation.

Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. Norah talks with each person about their goals and preferences, and she suggests approaches that fit those needs. That collaborative process helps set clear, manageable steps for change.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is good for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, chat and messaging can support brief check-ins or paced work between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping treatment consistent and focused.

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Questions people ask

What concerns can I bring to therapy?

Norah works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and body-image concerns, addictions, ADHD, and many life changes.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her style is validating and straightforward. She listens closely, helps name feelings, and teaches practical strategies to manage emotions.

What background does she have?

She has 15 years of clinical experience and has practiced since 2011, focusing on emotion regulation, relationship patterns, and life stressors.

What credentials and location apply?

She holds the LMFT credential - Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Minnesota and practices from that state.

Which languages and international options are available?

Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.

How can I meet with her online?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as session formats to fit different schedules and needs.

How much do sessions cost?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin therapy with her?

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