Meet Our Providers

Kathy Fox, t-LMFT

Hello! I’m Kathy Fox,  a Marriage and Family Therapist (t-MFT) and couples workshop leader specializing in relationships and relational issues such as poor communication, emotional withdrawal, and conflict. My ideal clients are individuals, couples or other adult groups who seek self-understanding, growth, and healing, often in the context of their current and past relationships. 

I am bilingual (English/Spanish) and offer therapy in both languages. Soy bilingüe (inglés/español); podemos hacer terapia en cualquiera de los dos idiomas. 

Relational 

Couples Therapy

I am passionate about helping partners deepen their  friendship, manage conflict more effectively, and create shared meaning for their life together.  I love working with pre-marital, married, and unmarried couples from all walks of life and with diverse problems or reasons for seeking help, including affairs and trauma. I am level 2-trained in the Gottman Method, which is my  framework for couples work. This is an integrative model with elements of emotion-focused, collaborative couples, family systems, and other therapies. When working with couples, I provide a lot of structure and guidance, especially in the beginning, so my style is interactive and at times direct, but always with compassion and without judgment.  

Discernment Counseling

I am trained in Discernment Counseling (DC) and use this model to help partners in crisis gain clarity about their relationship. This protocol is designed specifically for couples where one partner is contemplating separation or divorce and the other is not.  DC offers this couple a brief yet deep dive into the relationship to help them get clarity about what they really want/need to do. DC is not therapy, but rather 1-5 highly structured conversations to help the couple determine the best path forward: status quo (no change at this time), separation/divorce or couples therapy.  

Couples Workshops

The Gottman 7 Principles workshop for couples (married and unmarried) is based on the well-known research of Dr. John Gottman and presented in his book, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work. This popular workshop is educational, insightful, and fun! There are lectures, videos, and private couples exercises (you are not required to group share). It has helped tens of thousands of couples improve their friendship, communication, and conflict management skills. This workshop is offered in different formats at different times throughout the year. Please call or email for current information.

Other Relationships

I enjoy working with adults in other types of relationships (family and non-family) and situations who are struggling with communication, conflict, and connection. If you have a unique relationship problem and aren’t sure where to turn, please reach out. I may be able to help! 

Individuals

It is also a privilege to work with adults individually as they overcome significant loss, adjust to major life changes, heal from painful experiences/trauma, or seek to understand themselves better in the context of their family of origin. I tailor treatment to meet the needs of every unique client. My integrative approach draws heavily from family systems theory, IFS-informed parts work, Psychodynamic theory, and grief and trauma-informed therapies.

Background

A former professor, a curious traveler, and a life-long learner, I am pretty much always involved in some form of special training. Some examples to date include: Gottman Couples Therapy (Level 2-trained), Discernment Counseling (for couples on the brink), Trauma and Complicated Grief, IFS Therapy, Treating Trauma and Affairs, and becoming a certified workshop leader of the Gottman 7 Principles Program for couples. 

Education

BAs, Psychology and Spanish

MA, Marriage & Family Therapy

PhD, Spanish Language & Literature

I practice under clinical supervision provided by Megan Rose, LMHC, BICBT-CC.

Megan Rose, LMHC, BICBT-CC

Megan began her work as a mental health counselor in 2009 after working in the human service field for the prior 8 years. She earned her masters degree in Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling in 2011 from the University of Iowa.

Continuing education and specialized training are important for professional counselors, and in 2019, Megan began to deepen her focus and training in cognitive behavioral therapy. In 2021 after a combination of rigorous training along with evaluation and supervision by leading experts in the field of cognitive behavioral therapy she became the first beck institute cognitive behavioral therapy – certified clinician in Iowa. She plans to continue her training and supervision in the field of cognitive behavioral therapy and earned a certificate of completion for exposure and response prevention therapy. In 2011 she became a certified drug and alcohol counselor, she allowed this certification to expire in 2015.

While Megan prefers to use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in session she believes in the importance of incorporating other treatment modalities and interventions as appropriate for each individual client, which is why she also continues her learning by taking continuing education courses in other treatment modalities as well. 

Megan provides individual therapy to children (ages 10+), adolescents and adults. Her specialty areas include anxiety disorders such as: social anxiety, generalized anxiety, phobias, OCD as well as depression and substance abuse. She enjoys providing therapy for individuals who are working to build self confidence, parents and families who are working on reducing family accommodation, community involvement and public speaking.

Megan has worked as an adjunct professor at the University of Iowa on occasion. She is currently a member of the American Mental Health Counselors Association and the Iowa Mental Health Counselors Association.

In addition to expanding her own knowledge of counseling, she enjoys supervising individuals who are in their clinical programs or those who are provisionally licensed while they work towards full licensure. Megan is an approved supervisor in the state of Iowa for mental health counselors.