President-Elect Nominee - Krystal Speier, LCPC

Krystal’s passion has always been with helping others and has a long history of supporting families through difficult times while helping them find the light in the darkness of difficulty. She prides herself in being able to understand others’ needs, whether it be couples, individuals, adolescents, or the whole family to experience the most this life has to offer.

She actively works as a team player with her clients to help them discover solutions to the issues they experience. She specializes in working with trauma and abuse, PTSD, children, adolescents, and adults. The treatment modalities she primarily works with are CBT and Trauma Systems Therapy.

Krystal graduated from Fort Hays State University with a BS in Psychology and went on to get her MS in Community Counseling. She has a long history of working with a variety of clients, having spent years working in psychiatric hospitals for children and Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF) with children and their families. She has worked with children and families in the foster care system to assist in achieving permanency in the home or getting back into the biological home. Krystal has engaged in individual, group, family, and couple’s therapy. She obtained her clinical license in September of 2014 and became a nationally certified counselor in 2017.

In 2020, Krystal became a Board-Approved Clinical Supervisor. 

She is currently licensed in the states of Kansas, Missouri, Texas and most recently Alaska as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. In addition to her direct client care services, she supervises multiple clinicians working on their clinical licensure through the BSRB. 

Treasurer Nominee - Amy Cain, PhD, LCPC

Amy Cain, Ph.D., LCPC (KS), is an Associate Professor at MidAmerica Nazarene University where she has been teaching in the Master of Arts in Counseling and traditional undergraduate psychology programs since 2011.  She is the Department Chair of the Counseling program.  Amy received her Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from Kansas State University. Her areas of research include supervision, emerging adulthood, and the impact of mental health and counseling on traditional undergraduate students.

Having worked in helping professions for over 27 years, Amy has been a professional counselor since 2008 and is an approved Clinical Supervisor for the State of Kansas.  In addition to teaching full-time, she continues to have a small private practice along with providing post-graduate clinical supervision. Amy embraces an integrative approach to counseling, believing that cognition, affect, and somatic experiencing are all vital to mental health and healing.  She has specialized training in play therapy and enjoys utilizing expressive techniques with adult clients and supervisees. 

 Amy is married to Daniel. They have two sons (Hayden and Landon), a daughter-in-law (Bekah), and two adorable grandchildren (Adley and Easton).  She enjoys taking walks on the flat paths in Kansas and hiking anywhere the elevation exceeds 1000 ft (Colorado mountains are her favorites!).