Therapy for Iowa, Wherever You Are

Annie Harton Kassell, MA, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist who sees Iowa women virtually, by secure video. Whether your mornings start in a Des Moines suburb, a college street in Iowa City, or a small town out on the prairie, the work is the same. A safe space. A steady presence. A path back to the woman you were before everything else got loud.

Telehealth means you do not scrape an icy windshield for the commute across town, you do not find a sitter, you do not give up an entire afternoon to a single appointment. You need a quiet room, a steady connection, and the willingness to begin.

Many women assume they can only see a therapist with an office in their city. With telehealth, what matters is where you are, not where your therapist sits. Annie holds an active LMFT license in Iowa, so she can lawfully and ethically meet with you by video while you are anywhere in the state.

It is simple in practice: you receive a private, HIPAA-compliant video link, you click it at your appointment time, and you are in, no app to puzzle over, no front desk, no time lost to traffic.

Annie works with married women who feel as though they have slowly disappeared into the caretaking, the calendars, and the version of life they were supposed to want. If you have caught yourself wondering who am I underneath all of this, that is precisely the work she does.

Her care is grounded in evidence-based methods, including Emotionally Focused Therapy, the Gottman Method, and cognitive behavioral therapy, and for the women who want it, faith and a Catholic perspective can be woven in. Faith is an anchor, never the lead, and it is set fully aside for those who prefer that. The woman in front of her is always the center.

Iowa's Catholic parishes are often the anchor of a small town, and the wives and mothers who hold up both the parish and the household frequently have nowhere nearby to ask for help without everyone knowing their business. Annie works with women in that exact position, quietly wondering who they are underneath the roles everyone in town already knows them by.

Couples work with Annie through the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy helps women manage anxiety or intrusive thoughts they have never said aloud. For couples preparing for marriage, SYMBIS, PREPARE/ENRICH, and FOCCUS, the inventory used across Catholic dioceses nationwide, are all part of what Annie offers. Faith is never required to walk through her door. It is simply there for the woman who wants it.

From Des Moines and Cedar Rapids to Davenport and the small towns spread across rural Iowa, a Catholic-informed therapist can be a long drive away, if one is available at all. Annie's telehealth practice closes that distance for women anywhere in the state.

Annie sees clients across all of Iowa, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Iowa City, Waterloo, and Sioux City, along with the smaller towns and rural corners where a specialist down the road simply is not an option.

Iowa runs on Central time, one hour behind the practice's Eastern clock. Sessions are scheduled in your Central time, so the hour you see is the hour you meet, most often mornings or midday.