About Nora
Nora McNally is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 15 years of experience helping adults manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and big life changes. She works with people facing relationship and intimacy challenges, parenting strain, career concerns, and mood issues including bipolar disorder. Nora also addresses struggles with self-esteem, anger, and the lasting effects of abuse.
She focuses on building a trusting relationship first. That relationship gives space to tell a person’s story and to look honestly at what gets in the way of living fully.
Background and approach
Nora aims to listen without judgment and to respond with compassion and practical steps. Her approach is grounded in client-centered care and attachment-based thinking. She uses methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and take values-based steps.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are offered when emotion regulation or crisis coping is needed. In sessions Nora helps people set clear, manageable goals. She uses short exercises, thought and behavior tracking, and skills practice.
Work is focused on what will make daily life feel more manageable and meaningful. Nora practices in New York and offers sessions in English. She has experience supporting people through family conflict, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and the effects of loss and abandonment.
Her style is straightforward, warm, and focused on practical change.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions when someone wants clearer direction and motivation.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing patterns of thinking and behavior that cause distress. It often involves tracking thoughts, trying small behavior experiments, and practicing new skills between sessions, which fits well with online homework and check-ins.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and reducing impulsive behaviors. Brief skills coaching and regular practice can make DBT tools useful in crisis-prone situations or when emotions interfere with daily life.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, suggest methods that may help, and adjust the plan as you try tools and notice what works best. Expect the work to be flexible and guided by your concerns and pace.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues. Phone works when bandwidth is low or when being off camera helps. Live chat and text are helpful for shorter check-ins, skills practice, and people who prefer writing. These options make therapy easier to fit into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English