About Nora
Nora Church is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Oregon with ten years of experience. She aims to create a calm, respectful space where parents and individuals can tell their story and be heard. Nora uses conversational, down-to-earth language and moves at a pace that feels comfortable for each person.
She often helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and anger. She also supports those coping with grief, trauma, addiction, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
Background and approach
ADHD is listed among her focus areas, alongside parenting, sleep and eating concerns, and career stress. Nora blends practical, evidence-informed methods with attention to personal history. She draws on cognitive behavioral tools to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavior changes.
She uses attachment-based and narrative ideas to look at relationship patterns and the stories people carry about themselves. Her work includes coaching-style conversations and longer psychotherapy when needed. That mix can help with short-term goals like managing a panic or with deeper issues such as grief, abandonment, or multicultural identity concerns.
She has experience supporting people who have navigated adoption, foster care, caregiving stress, and medical-related life changes. Sessions with Nora typically focus on concrete next steps while also making room for understanding feelings and history. She respects each person’s pace and choices.
The goal is practical improvement in day-to-day life along with clearer self-understanding.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how early caregiving and close relationships shape feelings and behavior. Online sessions can look at current relationship patterns and help people try different ways of connecting and setting boundaries.Client-centered therapy centers the client’s experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely, follows the person’s pace, and uses their feedback to guide the work. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort through life changes or complicated emotions.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. It is useful for anxiety, stress, sleep or eating changes, and many everyday problems that respond to practical strategies.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Nora will work collaboratively to decide when to focus on symptoms, when to explore personal history, and when to try short coaching-style plans. Clients and therapist check in together and adjust methods to match goals and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and help people fit sessions into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Washington
- Languages
- English
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