Get to know the ladies at Lux to see if we might be a good fit for you!
Meet Our Therapists
the lux counseling team
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Interested in working with Sarah?
Meet Sarah, her favorite part of being a therapist is pulling the gold out of someone. She has a special way of helping you navigate pain with compassion, and draw out your innate goodness, as you develop tools that can reshape how you live. Her background as a collegiate soccer coach has given her firsthand insight and passion for the importance of being well in mind, body, and soul—and how that wholeness impacts every endeavor you pursue.
Strengths-Based Therapeutic Approach: Sarah knows that starting therapy can feel overwhelming. She’ll be the first to tell you that you don’t have to know exactly what to say or where to start. You can show up and say, “I don’t know.” That’s enough. She’ll meet you right there and naturally weave in therapeutic techniques, like CBT and SBT, taking a practical and strengths based approach, that can make a difference in your ability to handle what life has thrown at you.
A Glimpse into Her World: Outside the therapy room you can find Sarah, her husband, and their sweet daughters painting their new house, see Sarah playing in an adult soccer league or hanging in the backyard with their kids.
Sarah Salamida
Kansas, ohio & Florida licensed social worker (Lsw)
Sarah's Passionate About:
College Students • Athletes & Sports Culture • Couples • Complex Family Relationships • Body Image • Perinatal Mental Health • Anxiety
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Interested in working with Jordyn?
Meet Jordyn, a passionate therapist, who is honored to get to know the depth of who you are and help you break away from harmful patterns, offering the same grace and love that have shaped her own journey. Jordyn is known for her empowering, direct, and empathetic approach, as she creates a safe and welcoming space for you to explore what is impacting your ability to be well.
Mind & Body Integrated Therapeutic approach: Jordyn’s approach integrates both emotional depth and body-based awareness, helping clients build safety within themselves and in their relationships. Jordyn integrates approaches from IFS, ACT, and Somatic therapy, weaving in attachment-based principles. Her approach is rooted in understanding that healing happen through self-compassion and understanding the protective patterns you’ve developed along the way.
A Glimpse Into Her World: Outside sessions, Jordyn can be found learning about gut health, breathing through hot pilates, or exploring a new culture somewhere abroad!
Jordyn Kukla
Kansas & Florida licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
Jordyn's Passionate About:
Family Trauma • Body Image
Emotional Regulation • Anxiety • Self Esteem College Students • Missionaries • Perinatal Mental Health
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Interested in working with Ellie?
Meet Ellie, a therapist who believes that every person has the capacity for growth, healing, and deep connection. Evident by her empathetic, warm, and patient nature, Ellie creates a supportive space where she views clients as the experts on their lives, adapting each session to your unique needs.
Relational Therapeutic Approach: Ellie integrates many modalities to the therapy room, including Attachment-based techniques, ACT, Family Systems, and IFS. She recently dove into some additional training in perinatal mental health and the Gottman Method. As a Marriage and Family Therapist, Ellie uses a relational approach to therapy, considering how your relationships and the systems you are part of shape not only the challenges you face but also the strengths and resources you draw on.
A Glimpse Into Her World: Outside the therapy room, she can be found on disc golf adventures with her husband and daughter while sipping on an iced strawberry matcha or rereading her favorite book, Hinds Feet on High Places.
Ellie Shaheen
Kansas Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT)
Ellie’s Passionate About:
Anxiety • Grief • Scrupulosity/OCD Pregnancy & Postpartum • Life Transitions • Emotion Regulation Young Adults • Couples & Missionary Dating Fasts
Interested in working with Patrice?
Meet Patrice, an incredibly supportive, loyal, and grounding therapist with a truly caring presence. Grounded in a holistic lens, Patrice sees each client as a whole and unique individual—not defined by your symptoms or struggles, but by your inherent worth and dignity, with capacity for growth. Patrice is is not afraid to explore the vulnerable and messy parts of life, walking in your pain and suffering with you.
Humanistic Therapeutic Approach: Patrice‘s dynamic therapeutic style integrates Polyvagal and somatic approaches focused on nervous system and body-based regulation, along with narrative therapy, family systems and IFS based parts work. She recently dove into a training on Ego State Approaches for Perinatal Mental Health, that has enhanced her work with trauma, especially for mothers’ birth trauma and grief.
A Glimpse Into Her World: Outside of sessions, she can be found balancing family life and school pickup, with sour dough baking adventures (ask her about her sour dough pancakes) and exploring new places with her family.
Patrice Fernandez
FLorida & Kansas Licensed Clinical Social Worker Intern (RCSWI)
Patrice's Passionate About:
Family & Childhood Wounds • Emotional Regulation • Perinatal Mental Health Maternal Mental Health
Trauma Recovery • Military
First Responders
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Interested in working with Jackie?
Meet Jackie, a compassionate and warm therapist dedicated to helping you understand and navigate life's challenges, with self compassion and strength. With her attentive listening, genuine curiosity, and ability to see the bigger picture, Jackie creates a supportive environment for clients to explore their emotions, inner thoughts, and experiences. She believes that therapy is often the process of holding space to be where we are at (acceptance), while opening the door for change/growth.
Self Compassionate Therapeutic Approach: Jackie’s therapeutic style draws from ACT, IFS, DBT, Narrative Therapy, and CBT. Jackie is passionate about helping clients learn to look at themselves through a self-compassionate lens, understand their bodily cues and emotions, and utilize mindfulness. Some training she has enjoyed recently are a Maternal Mental Health Intensive and a training on Integrating Body-Based Approaches into Trauma Therapy.
A Glimpse Into Her World: Outside of the therapy room, Jackie can be found listening to podcasts and music for a brain break, walking outside (rain or shine!!), and recently starting Jazzercise classes!
Jackie Stone-Hummer
Kansas licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
Jackie's Passionate About:
Anxiety • Life Transitions
Trauma • Grief • Pregnancy & Postpartum • College Students • Teens • Young Adults
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Interested in working with Liz?
Meet Liz, known for her friendly, nonjudgmental, direct, and energetic approach, creating a space where clients can process their emotions and experiences. She is determined to help you develop essential self understanding, coping skills and a deep confidence that you can handle whatever life throws your way.
Skills-Based Therapeutic Approach: Liz draws from DBT, IFS, and CBT to help clients build skills that truly support everyday life. One of her favorite recent trainings was in advanced perinatal mental health, deepening her care for pregnant and postpartum moms she serves. Liz creates an environment in sessions that propels others to have both compassion for themselves and motivation for growth. She holds hope for clients to see their struggles as a chapter of their story, not the whole book.
A Glimpse Into Her World: Outside of sessions, she’s likely with a paintbrush in hand with a DIY home project, her daughter by her side out in the sunshine, or watching Dayton Flyers game with her husband!
Kansas, Ohio, & Pennsylvania Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LSCSW, LISW, LCSW)
Liz Ferguson
Liz's Passionate About:
Life Transitions • Pregnancy & Postpartum
Anxiety • Emotion Regulation
College Students • Young Adults
Self Esteem
Lizzy's Passionate About:
Anxiety • Life Transitions • College Pregnancy & Postpartum
Perinatal Couples Therapy
OCD & Scrupulosity
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Interested in working with Lizzy?
How We Started! I am Lux’s founder and one of our Catholic therapists. Lux’s story starts 13 years ago during a six month mission trip to a Zambian orphanage, where I saw the deep impact of untreated trauma in young women. Witnessing how a lack of love and safety shaped the lens with which these women saw themselves and the world around them, left a lasting impression on me. Seeing this pain up close sparked a huge desire in me to learn what environments allow healing to propel someone to rediscover joy and safety, even after immense hardship.
On a Mission: So I set out to learn the skills of therapy through my studies in my undergraduate degree in Psychology at Benedictine College and my Masters of Science in Counseling at Emporia State University. In my studies and mentorship, as well as in my own experiences as a client in therapy myself, I have witnessed over and over how transformative it can be to have someone sit with you, unhurried, to take the time to learn your unique patterns and ways of processing, integrating care that benefits your mind, body, and soul. It changed my life to invest in befriending and reworking my own thoughts and patterns, bringing my wounds to the light, and gaining practical tools to navigate life’s stressors. While I was the first therapist at Lux, I quickly recognized the need for faith-filled therapists in my community. Witnessing this led me to expand my team with trustworthy, diversely skilled, Catholic professionals. We are passionate about providing care that mirrors each of our clients' inherent dignity and worth. Feeling truly cared for and walked alongside is what I hope you get to encounter here at Lux.
Value Based Therapeutic Approach: In sessions, I integrate multiple modalities from a value focused lens, including techniques from REBT, IFS, ACT and IB - CBT. For my team, I have to say how incredibly proud I am of all of the ways these ladies creatively show up for their clients, with integrity and care, each through their own unique therapeutic style and personality. Our team is dedicated to ongoing professional growth, continually learning from the best in our field with continued education and mentorship.
Some of our most recent professional growth has included a mix of somatic, nervous system regulation training, a book on perfectionism, continued perinatal mental health training, and a faith-based, body image training.
A Glimpse Into My World: Outside the therapy room, you can find me mom’ing having a picnic at a park with my daughters, cheering on KU with my husband and friends, and enjoying it all with my phone “Bricked” on do not disturb.
