About Katherine
Katherine (Katie) Strub is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Iowa who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship struggles, and related issues. She uses a practical, down-to-earth style and focuses on what each person needs right now. Katie keeps language simple and sessions focused on real-life changes.
With 15 years of experience, Katie draws on several approaches to match the person in front of her. She mixes client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral work and EMDR when trauma is involved.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing also appear in sessions when they fit the goal. Katie believes people have the capacity for growth but often face barriers from past wounds or current pressures. She describes therapy like bowling - the client chooses the direction and power, and the therapist helps keep the ball on the lane.
That image guides how she shares responsibility and keeps the work collaborative. In practice she addresses many concerns, including depression, grief, addictions, parenting strain, intimacy and communication problems, attachment and abandonment issues, and compassion fatigue. Katie adapts the session pace to the person, using brief skill-building, trauma processing, or a longer conversation depending on need.
Her manner is straightforward and honest. She aims to help people notice patterns, try small changes, and build skills that make daily life easier. Katie works with individuals by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines and comfort levels.
How Katie Uses Approaches Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. The therapist reflects what is said, asks clarifying questions, and helps someone set goals that matter to them. This approach is useful for building trust and for addressing relationship, self-esteem, or career struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. In online sessions, CBT often includes simple exercises and homework to practice between meetings, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress management. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, addresses painful memories and the way they affect daily life. When appropriate, Katie may use EMDR techniques to reduce the intensity of trauma-related reactions and to support healing from abuse, neglect, or other traumatic events. Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Katie will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and preferences. She adapts pacing and techniques over time so the therapy stays useful and relevant. Online formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging offer flexible ways to share thoughts between scheduled meetings. These options help people fit sessions into busy lives and try different ways of connecting with a licensed professional.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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