About Katherine
Katherine (Katie) Strub is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Iowa with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship struggles, grief, addiction, and similar concerns. Katie aims to create a straightforward, down-to-earth space where clients can talk about what matters to them.
Katie uses methods that match each person’s needs rather than a single formula. She draws on client-centered work to follow a client’s lead and on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
How Katherine works
She also uses EMDR for trauma-related memories and mindfulness to build present-moment coping skills. Clients can expect practical skills alongside room to tell their story. Katie describes her role like bumpers on a bowling lane - she helps keep the conversation moving and prevents getting stuck while clients choose their direction.
She values honesty and straightforward feedback in sessions and encourages people to set realistic goals. Her background includes extensive work with trauma, domestic violence, grief and loss, and a range of identity and relationship concerns. Katie also focuses on issues such as abandonment, attachment, blended family questions, caregiver stress, codependency, and body image.
Sessions are tailored to each person’s situation. Katie supports people coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, ADHD, bipolar concerns, parenting stress, and intimacy-related struggles. Her work combines practical techniques with a compassionate, no-nonsense approach.
Katherine lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Katherine works with
The areas below are the ones Katherine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Iowa |
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Online support options
Approach-driven care available online
Client-centered therapy focuses on following the client's concerns and priorities. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and uses that to guide each session so clients steer the pace and topics. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that helps people process distressing memories using structured sets of attention and guidance, which can reduce the intensity of those memories.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, past experiences, and what feels helpful, then recommend techniques aligned with those preferences. Decisions about using CBT, EMDR, or mindfulness are made collaboratively and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which can make regular work on goals easier to fit into a busy life. Video works well for in-depth conversations and using visual tools, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, chat or messaging can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing, and flexibility in formats helps maintain continuity when schedules shift.
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