Katherine (Katie) Strub
Compassionate, practical support for family challenges
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Katherine
Katherine (Katie) Strub is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Iowa who focuses on family and parenting concerns among many other issues. She offers straightforward, practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, or past trauma.
Katie speaks plainly in sessions and aims to be a steady, honest presence while clients make their own choices about change. Her approach is collaborative and tailored.
Background and approach
She blends eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and client-centered techniques depending on what a person needs. Katie believes there is no single right method for everyone, so she adjusts plans as therapy progresses.
Katie draws on about 15 years of clinical experience working with issues such as depression, addictions, intimacy-related concerns, anger, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She has also supported people facing attachment, adoption and foster care, blended family, and caregiver stress topics. Her practice includes work around trauma, domestic violence, and related separation or loss.
In sessions she uses clear metaphors and honest feedback to keep work focused and understandable. Clients can expect goal-oriented conversations, practical coping strategies, and occasional skill practice between meetings. The tone is direct but compassionate, with an emphasis on what helps day to day.
Katie holds the IA LMHC 001141 credential. She provides services in English and works with people located in Iowa.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Client-centered work focuses on meeting each person where they are. The therapist listens closely, follows the client's lead, and helps set goals that matter to that person. This approach supports people who need acceptance and clear direction on next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Sessions often include simple skill practice like noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday problems.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, commonly called EMDR, is a trauma-informed method that helps process painful memories. In online sessions EMDR can be guided step by step, allowing people to work through upsetting memories while using structured techniques.
Katie treats choice of method as a collaborative decision. She will review options, ask about goals and preferences, and try approaches that fit the person's needs. That means the plan can change as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online care offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist see reactions and use visual tools. Phone sessions remove the need for a camera when that helps. Live chat and text-based messaging can support short check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing encouragement between longer meetings. These options let people fit therapy into busy family and work lives.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
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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
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