About Katherine
Katherine (Katie) Strub is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Iowa. She helps people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, phobias, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, and a broad range of life challenges. Katie writes and talks plainly so people can understand what to expect in sessions.
Katie draws on about 15 years of experience in mental health care. She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness alongside client-centered talk therapy.
Background and approach
She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, which she offers for trauma-related concerns. She treats each person as an individual and avoids a one-size-fits-all approach. Katie describes therapy as a partnership: the client chooses the direction and she provides guidance and structure.
She uses concrete metaphors and clear language to help people see progress. Common topics she addresses include grief, addictions, parenting stress, LGBT concerns, attachment and abandonment issues, communication problems, and coping with major life changes. Katie also helps with anger, self-esteem, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
Sessions can include short-term, solution-focused work or longer therapy for deeper issues. Katie brings a straightforward, honest style and aims to be a steady presence for people as they work through painful memories or current pressures.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and following the client’s agenda; it helps people feel heard and build their own solutions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) uses clear steps to identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, phobias, and depression. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) addresses traumatic memories through structured processing and can be adapted for remote work when clinically appropriate.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and the issues they bring. That may mean trying short-term, solution-focused work first, then shifting to deeper processing if needed.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and maintain a face-to-face rhythm. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework, and ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent and accessible.
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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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