Katherine (Katie) Strub, LMHC

Katherine (Katie) Strub is an Iowa Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 15 years of experience. She works with adults on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship concerns, LGBT issues, addictions, grief, parenting challenges, and blended family issues.

Katie uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. She centers the conversation on the person's goals and current concerns. Sessions include talk, skill practice, and problem-solving rather than long lectures or abstract theory.

Her approach draws on client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also offers Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, for people who want a trauma-focused option. Mindfulness skills and motivational interviewing techniques are used when they fit the client's goals.

Katie describes herself as honest and down-to-earth. She compares therapy to bowling: the client chooses the direction and power, and she keeps things on track. That means she will be direct about observations and invite clear, practical steps between sessions.

People often come to her when they face life changes, parenting strain, co-parenting tensions, or loyalty conflicts in blended households. She helps people notice patterns, reduce distressing symptoms, and try different ways of reacting to difficult moments. Katie works with each person to set short-term goals and check progress along the way.