Katherine (Katie) Strub, LMHC

Katherine (Katie) Strub is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Iowa. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, life changes, grief, and trauma. Katie brings 15 years of experience to sessions and aims to make therapy practical and approachable.

Katie uses a flexible, person-centered style. She sees each person as the expert on their life and adapts methods to fit the situation. In sessions she mixes client-centered listening with goal-focused tools so people leave with clearer next steps.

Her work commonly addresses trauma, including abuse and domestic violence, along with attachment and abandonment concerns. She also supports people dealing with addictions, ADHD, career strain, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related struggles. Katie helps people sort through parenting stress, blended family questions, and communication problems by focusing on what they can change now.

Katie includes techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and EMDR as part of her toolkit. She describes therapy like bowling: the client chooses the direction and power, and the therapist guides the lane and keeps things on track.

She aims to be direct, honest, and down-to-earth in sessions. People who prefer straightforward feedback and collaborative problem solving tend to find her style useful. To begin, people follow the site sign-up process and complete a short matching questionnaire.

How Katie's approaches fit into online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding the person's experience and responding with empathy and respect; online sessions let a therapist listen and reflect while you set the pace and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into specific thoughts and behaviors and offers concrete exercises to try between sessions, which translates well to online work because homework and tracking can be shared and reviewed. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured method for addressing traumatic memories and distressing experiences; portions of EMDR-informed work can be adapted to remote sessions when clinically appropriate.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify goals, try methods that suit those goals, and adjust based on how things are going. Clients are encouraged to speak up about preferences so the plan fits their needs and rhythm.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm available options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - it reduces travel time, can allow shorter check-ins when needed, and lets people connect from different locations. Licensed professionals can use online sessions to deliver structured tools, guide mindfulness practices, review CBT worksheets, and carry out paced EMDR elements without promising a particular format.