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 Lyndsay?
Meet Lyndsay, she believes healing begins by gently uncovering what has been hidden beneath your heartache; whether it is anxiety, shame, past mistakes, wounds, or the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. Everything in your work with Lyndsay flows from one thing, getting to know you. You are the expert on your own life, and she takes that seriously. From there she brings clinical curiosity and an individualized approach, thoughtfully tailoring her interventions to your specific needs, goals, and the story only you can tell. Her work with you will always be rooted in the belief that you are inherently good, more capable than anxiety or fear has ever led you to believe.
Trauma-Informed, Relational Approach: Before becoming a therapist, Lyndsay spent years as a missionary walking closely with women of faith. What she witnessed gave her a deep conviction that your mental health is too important to white-knuckle through alone. She is more convicted than ever that working through trauma and identifying the lies, insecurities, and patterns that keep you stuck can transform your inner world and relationships. Lyndsay’s work is rooted in attachment theory and integrates approaches such as EMDR, CBT, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and the Catholic Christian understanding of the human person.
A Glimpse into Her World: Outside the therapy room, Lyndsay is usually outside, on a long walk with a friend having a great conversation or planning her next adventure. Up next: climbing Mount Rainier!
Lyndsay Hilton
Kansas (LPC), Missouri (PLPC) Licensed Professional Counselor
Supporting You Through:
Anxiety • Trauma • Family Wounds
Discernment Anxiety
Missionaries • Young Adults
College Students
Relationships • Transitions
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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, helping you see and access the strength and capacity that is already in you, even when you cannot see it yourself. She will hold space for where you are, but she is too genuinely excited about where you are going to leave you there. Her background as a collegiate soccer coach gives her firsthand insight and passion for the deep connection between mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing, and that whole-person, holistic perspective is central to how she works clinically. She takes the time to understand how your relationships, environment, and life circumstances all connect to what you are experiencing, and from there helps you see your own capacity clearly, identify what needs to shift, and build practical tools that genuinely change how you move through your day to day.
Strengths-Based Therapeutic Approach: Sarah has a particular passion for walking alongside people in new and overwhelming seasons, especially the pregnancy and postpartum years, where so much is changing at once and it can feel overwhelming to find your footing. Sarah invests in understanding who you are, what is impacting you, and what you are working toward. From there she draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Strengths-Based Therapy (SBT) to build a practical, skills-based approach that moves step by step toward real and meaningful change.
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)
Supporting You Through:
Anxiety • Complex Family Relationships • Transitions • Scrupulosity • College Students • Athletes & Sports Culture Couples • Body Image
Perinatal Mental Health
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Interested in working with Kelly?
Meet Kelly, she has a calm, steady way of meeting you where you’re at and helping you slow down enough to make sense of what’s happening in your mind and heart. When life feels overwhelming or hard to untangle, Kelly is skilled at gently sorting through what you’re carrying with you, as you work towards freedom, in a way that feels realistic and within reach. Shaped by the healing and renewal of her own story, her approach allows her to walk with you in a deeply attuned and supportive way as you pursue the goals that matter most to you in your unique therapeutic experience.
Person-First, Integrative Approach: Kelly believes therapy is a journey of self-friendship, where being truly seen and accompanied creates space for freedom, renewal of mind, and a deeper capacity to love and be loved. During her time as a FOCUS missionary, Kelly spent years walking alongside women, including many in Greek life, which sparked her passion for supporting teens and young adults through seasons of identity formation and transition. Today, she brings that same presence into the therapy room, helping you process your life experiences and integrate therapeutic techniques that can help you actionably move towards the change you crave. Kelly integrates components of therapeutic approaches like CBT, IFS, and strengths-based therapy into sessions.
A Glimpse into Her World: Outside the therapy room, Kelly is usually gathering friends for a themed dinner party, heading out for a long walk, or lingering in a favorite coffee shop with a matcha.
Kelly Steichen
Kansas licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
Supporting You Through:
Body Image • College Students • Sorority Life • Teens • Trauma Work • Faith Based Anxiety • Life Transitions • Difficult Relationship with Food
Sexual Brokenness
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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 you 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)
Supporting You Through:
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 trauma informed therapist who believes that every person has the capacity for growth, healing, and deep connection. She especially values supporting you to move beyond fear, shame, and chronic self-doubt toward a life grounded in authenticity and freedom. As a Marriage and Family Therapist, she uses a relational, holistic 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.
Relational Therapeutic Approach: Ellie is trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), an evidence-based approach that uses guided eye movements to help the brain reprocess and store distressing memories differently. ART quickly supports clients in reducing the emotional intensity of traumatic or painful experiences while building a greater sense of safety and relief. Additionally, she is trained in I-CBT and utilizes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), attachment-focused work, and nervous system-informed care to support clients in building greater self-trust, emotional flexibility, and meaningful connection.
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)
Supporting You Through:
Anxiety • Grief • Scrupulosity/OCD • Pregnancy & Postpartum • Life Transitions • Emotion Regulation • Young Adults • Missionary Dating Fasts • Trauma
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)
Supporting You Through:
Family & Childhood Wounds • Emotional Regulation • Perinatal Mental Health Maternal Mental Health
Trauma Recovery • Military
First Responders • Sexual Brokenness
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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)
Supporting You Through:
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
Supporting You Through:
Life Transitions • Pregnancy & Postpartum
Anxiety • Emotion Regulation
College Students • Young Adults
Self Esteem • Sexual Brokenness
Supporting You Through:
Anxiety • Self Doubt
OCD & Scrupulosity • Perfectionism
Pregnancy & Postpartum
Perinatal Couples Therapy
Meet Lizzy, she knows how it feels to be trapped by anxiety, and she knows there is light on the other side. Her passion for therapy's transformational potential began during a mission trip to a Zambian orphanage, where she sat with women who had survived trauma and watched how a lack of love and safety had rewritten the way they saw themselves, years after the danger had passed. That experience planted a determination in her to learn how to help her clients unlearn fear that has become a part of how they think and learn how to live confidently again.
The more she has been in the field, the more convinced she is that other people have been where you are, and there are proven methods to help you step forward through whatever burden you are carrying. You are not defined by your anxiety, your self doubt, or what has happened to you. You have dignity, a story worth telling, and real capacity for growth, even when it does not feel that way.
The Dream: Lizzy has always dreamed of creating a place where deep conversations and getting to the heart of it are the norm, where you can unravel and creatively rebuild, and where hope can be held for you even if you feel you cannot hold it for yourself. Whether you work with Lizzy or another therapist on the Lux team, she hopes you feel genuinely cared for and like you have finally found a place to be truly seen for who you are, in all your many layers.
Values Led Therapeutic Approach: Lizzy uses Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) based techniques to help you notice the untrue narratives and negative beliefs, often rooted in past experiences, that may be fueling your distress or anxiety. From there she gets to know you and how you process, helping you build tools to understand and communicate with the different parts of yourself, grow in your ability to recenter and regulate when triggered, and ultimately live in line with your values rather than being led by fear. Through Inference Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT) she helps you understand how OCD or scrupulosity is working in your brain so you can identify and work through what fuels anxiety and obsessive doubt, as you work through strategies to trust yourself again. Lizzy has a deep passion for walking alongside pregnant, postpartum, and new moms. She has completed multiple trainings with Postpartum Support International, as well as the OCD Training School, in perinatal mood disorders and postpartum OCD, with a deep belief that caring for moms well cares for the whole family. She is trained as a Gottman Method Bringing Baby Home educator, enhancing her work with couples in the beautiful whirlwind of postpartum and family life.
A Glimpse Into Her World: Outside the therapy room, you can find Lizzy mom’ing having a picnic with her daughters, on a trail run, or cheering on KU basketball with her husband and friends.
Lizzy Hollwedel
Founder & Kansas Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (lCPC)
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Want to connect directly with Frances?
In a world where so many interactions feel automated or transactional, Frances is the genuine, warm, and inviting presence replying to your inquiries. She is passionate about making sure you are taken care of and matched with a therapist who is an amazing fit for you after you take the vulnerable step of submitting our form.
When asked why it is important to Frances to help potential clients get connected to the best-fit therapists she said:
“My biggest hope is to ensure you know we hear your concerns as we set you up for a fruitful and quality relationship with therapy. Part of that means matching you with someone truly qualified for whatever brought you here. But it also means that when you see a calendar reminder for your upcoming appointment, you can feel a sense of relief knowing you were placed with your therapist intentionally and that you’re meeting with someone who will meet you exactly where you are.”
What she wants you to know if you feel hesitant about inquiring:
“I just hope anyone who reaches out knows that when I receive inquiries, I have absolutely no judgment whatever you may be going through. It is a joy and a privilege to know someone trusts us enough to help find the tools they need to begin healing. I also want to be that cheerleader for you, reminding you that while we are absolutely here to guide, you are the one putting in the work, so you are the real MVP!”
A Glimpse Into Her World: Outside of replying to your emails and inquiries, Frances can be found with her sons chasing sunshine, dreaming about country living, and interior design.
Want to connect with Frances as you discern the right therapist?
frances@luxcounselingllc.com or clientcare@luxcounselingllc.com
Frances Myslinski
Client Care Coordinator
Our Support Team
Sharing Lux Counseling’s mission through outreach, partnerships, and community presence.
How does Kalynn support the mission of Lux Counseling?
Kalynn supports the Lux Counseling team by strengthening the partnerships, messaging, and systems that support our therapists’ work each day. She leads outreach and brand awareness efforts to help Lux show up with excellence, integrity, and consistency. Her goal is to connect the mission of Lux to the broader community’s needs by introducing them to the support available at Lux in a genuine, clear and actionable way.
Outreach questions? Give Kalynn a shout at kalynn@luxcounselingllc.com
