About Katherine
Katherine (Katie) Strub is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Iowa. She offers straightforward, practical help for people coping with stress, anxiety, ADHD, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, and related concerns. Katie writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person.
Katie uses a flexible mix of approaches rather than one fixed method. She draws on client-centered work to follow each person's lead. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and EMDR when trauma memories need a different kind of attention.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are tools she brings in when they fit the goal. Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps that can make daily life easier. Katie talks through coping strategies, communication techniques, and ways to manage stress and emotions.
She often blends skill-building with deeper processing for painful memories or persistent patterns. With 15 years of experience, Katie has worked with people facing loss, abuse, domestic violence, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and identity or LGBTQ questions. She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, caregiver stress, substance concerns, career shifts, and major life changes.
Work begins by listening closely to what feels most urgent. Katie aims to be direct and honest, while also creating room for realistic change. She encourages clients to take the lead and treats therapy as a partnership toward better day-to-day functioning.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy starts by following the person's goals and pace. It focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping someone name what matters so sessions feel relevant and focused. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change patterns that make daily life harder. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, offers a structured way to process traumatic memories when they create ongoing distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katie treats therapy as a collaboration and will help you choose or combine methods based on your needs and goals. Together you decide what to try first and how to adjust as you make progress.
Online sessions offer flexibility by letting you meet by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls work well for visual connection and skill practice, phone sessions are simple when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can be useful for short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and to continue work consistently over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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