- CBT strategies
- Somatic awareness
- Solution-focused work
About Nora
Nora O'Connor is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California with 15 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, addiction recovery, LGBTQ+ issues, life changes, career questions, and self-esteem concerns. Nora also lists compassion fatigue and a wide range of related struggles such as grief around adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, and isolation.
Nora uses cognitive behavioral techniques alongside somatic awareness to help people notice how thoughts and the body influence each other. She brings trauma-informed practices into sessions when past events are affecting day-to-day life. Her methods are practical and focused on skills people can use between appointments.
Sessions often involve identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, practicing grounding and body-based strategies, and setting short-term goals to test new ways of coping. Nora pays attention to how stress shows up in the body and guides simple somatic exercises to reduce overwhelm. She also draws on solution-focused tools to help people make manageable changes quickly.
Clients who are wrestling with career transitions, questions of life purpose, recovery from addictive behaviors, or complicated feelings about relationships can expect clear, goal-oriented work. Nora notes experience with issues such as guilt, shame, post-traumatic stress, and panic attacks. She also supports people navigating polyamory and non-monogamous relationship concerns.
Practical steps are part of her approach. Nora uses short experiments, skills practice, and reflective conversation to help people test new ways of living. To begin, clients complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule a first session through the site.
How Nora blends talk work and body-based methods online
Nora commonly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and somatic approaches in her online work. CBT involves identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and building concrete skills to change patterns that keep people stuck; it can help with anxiety, panic, and career-related worry. Somatic methods focus on bodily sensations and simple movement or grounding practices to reduce physical reactivity and help people feel less overwhelmed.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Nora will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and what feels doable. Together they decide which combination of CBT tools, somatic exercises, or solution-focused steps fits current needs and daily life demands.
Because the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm available formats before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, shorten check-ins when needed, and allow use of audio-only or camera-on sessions if those options are provided. Practical benefits often include quicker access to focused skill practice, easier scheduling around work or caregiving, and the ability to use written or in-session exercises between meetings.
Areas of expertise
Also works with
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
15+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of issues does she help with?
She works with adults on stress, anxiety, addiction recovery, LGBTQ+ concerns, self-esteem, career questions, and coping with life changes.
How does she approach feeling stuck or directionless?
Her work combines cognitive behavioral techniques, somatic awareness, and solution-focused tools to create short experiments and skills people can use between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has 15 years of clinical experience working with a range of concerns including trauma-related symptoms and mood disorders.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in California and practices with clients in that state.
What languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions arranged and what do they cost?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin a first session?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session through the site.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, use the crisis numbers.