About Nora
Nora O'Connor is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in California. She brings 15 years of experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, addiction recovery, and LGBTQ+ concerns. Nora focuses on helping people handle life changes, improve self-esteem, and manage career and compassion fatigue issues.
She combines body-awareness methods with cognitive tools to help clients feel more grounded. Sessions often include breathing, noticing bodily sensations, and practical thinking strategies to reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Nora uses straightforward steps so people can try things between sessions and see if they help. Nora also works with those coping with grief, caregiver strain, and the effects of trauma. She supports people dealing with codependency, domestic violence aftermath, and challenges tied to adoption or foster care.
Other areas she addresses include money stress, isolation, panic attacks, and mood concerns. Her background centers on trauma-informed care and somatic awareness alongside cognitive behavioral and solution-focused techniques. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness practices are woven in when helpful.
Her style is collaborative and paced to each person's comfort. Sessions are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Conversations are practical and paced, with an emphasis on small, usable changes.
Nora helps clients identify priorities and simple next steps to build more steady daily routines.
How somatic and cognitive work online
Nora uses Somatic Therapy to help people notice how stress shows up in the body. That can mean tracking breathing, tension, or how emotions rise and fall, then trying small regulation practices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with clearer, more workable thoughts that reduce anxiety and low mood.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Nora will work together with each person to decide whether somatic practices, CBT tools, DBT skills, or mindfulness techniques fit best for their goals and comfort. The approach can shift over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy or remote lives. Video calls let people work in real time while phone, live chat, or text-based messaging can suit those who prefer short check-ins or steady support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to practice new skills in daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English