Nida Noorani, M.S., LPC-Associate

You deserve to feel at home in yourself.

I believe therapy should be a space where you can show up as your full self, without feeling like you have to minimize your experiences or have everything figured out. As a South Asian-American woman, I understand that our cultures, identities, and lived experiences shape how we see ourselves and navigate the world. I have a special interest in working with people of color, creating a space where cultural identity, family expectations, relationships, and self-worth can be explored openly and without judgment. Your experiences matter, your identity matters, and every part of your story deserves to be heard.

I obtained my Bachelor of Science degrees in Psychology and Child Learning and Development from the University of Texas at Dallas and my Master of Science in Professional Counseling from Southern Methodist University. As a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate I work with adults navigating anxiety, trauma, depression, relationships, life transitions, and identity exploration. My approach to counseling is integrative because I don’t believe there is one way to understand a person or one approach that works for everyone. I draw from Adlerian Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), and Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), allowing me to tailor our work to your unique needs. Sometimes therapy looks like learning new ways to cope. Sometimes it looks like challenging the way you’ve learned to talk to yourself. Sometimes it looks like sitting with something painful that you’ve been avoiding for a long time. And sometimes it is simply having someone help you make sense of what you’re feeling.

Outside of counseling, I am an avid reader with a personal library of over 150 books, enjoy capturing moments through photography, and trying every new coffeehouse I can find. I know it is impossible to capture everything about a person in a little biography and I want you to be able to get to know me, too. I want you to feel comfortable asking questions, telling me when something isn’t working, laughing when something is funny, and being honest when something feels difficult to say. I want therapy to be a place where you don’t have to perform or pretend that you’re okay. My goal is to create a space where you feel comfortable being honest, asking questions, and exploring even the parts of yourself that may feel difficult to share. You don’t have to have all the answers before we begin. I want to hear your story. We can start wherever you are, make sense of where you’ve been, and work together toward where you want to go next.