About Katherine
Katherine (Katie) Strub is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Iowa. She offers calm, direct support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, trauma, or changes in life. Katie aims to make sessions practical and focused so clients can take real steps forward.
Katie draws on about 15 years of clinical experience. She uses a mix of approaches rather than one fixed method. That lets her match work to each person's needs, whether the concern is depression, addiction, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, or intimacy-related struggles.
Background and approach
In sessions she favors a straightforward, collaborative style. She compares therapy to bowling: the client chooses the direction and power, and she keeps things on track. That image reflects how she balances respect for client choices with gentle guidance and honest feedback.
Katie uses tools from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She also offers solution-focused strategies and stress-management skills to help with day-to-day coping. People who seek her help often want a therapist who is practical and real.
Katie says she does not expect perfection and she asks clients for honest effort in return. Those who connect with her can expect clear goals, hands-on techniques, and steady support during change.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's goals and preferences, with the therapist offering empathy and support rather than directions. It helps when someone needs a steady, nonjudgmental space to talk through problems and decide next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. It suits worries, anxiety, stress, and mood challenges because sessions include concrete exercises and homework that carry over between meetings.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that works with distressing memories and reactions. It is used for trauma, abuse, and related symptoms by helping the brain process difficult events in a structured way.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Katie collaborates with each person to decide what methods fit best given their goals and comfort level. She may combine techniques and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexibility that many people need. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue care from different locations.
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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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