Katherine (Katie) Strub

Katherine (Katie) Strub is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people manage anger, stress, anxiety, and relationship strain. She welcomes people who feel stuck after loss, trauma, burnout, or big life changes. Katie writes plainly and works to make therapy feel practical and down-to-earth. Katie brings 15 years of experience in clinical work in Iowa. She uses a mix of approaches rather than a single method. Sessions often include problem-solving, building coping skills, and ways to reduce overwhelming feelings so daily life feels more manageable. Her work often focuses on trauma and abuse, grief, addiction concerns, and issues that affect self-worth and intimacy. She also supports people navigating parenting stress, workplace burnout, ADHD, and relationship communication problems. Anger is one of the areas she addresses alongside mood and anxiety concerns. Katie describes therapy as a partnership. She compares the client to the bowler who chooses the direction and power, and the therapist as the bumpers who help keep things on track. That image reflects a respectful, collaborative stance rather than a top-down approach. She also emphasizes honesty and realism in sessions. Katie says she doesn’t expect perfection and aims to be straightforward with feedback. People who want clear guidance and practical tools may find that approach helpful. Katie’s methods include client-centered work, cognitive techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and EMDR for trauma processing. She tailors the mix to each person’s needs instead of using a one-size-fits-all plan.

Approaches That Translate to Online Work

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s goals and experience, offering space to be heard and to choose the pace of change. It helps when someone needs to sort out feelings, values, or decisions and wants a supportive, nonjudgmental guide.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors together and teaches practical strategies to reduce worry, manage anger, and change unhelpful habits. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems because it gives clear tools to practice between sessions.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used to process traumatic memories and reduce their hold on daily life. In sessions it combines focused attention on memory material with structured bilateral stimulation to help people feel less overwhelmed by past events.

Finding the right approach is a shared task. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, what has helped before, and preferences for technique and pacing. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan over time based on what works.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, such as having meetings around work breaks or avoiding travel time. Some formats can be shorter check-ins when time is tight, and others allow for deeper work when someone can set aside a longer block. Because formats were not listed in the biography, confirm the exact session options before booking so you know what is available.