Heartland Rural Counseling Services Inc.

11/06/2025

It’s Dana’s birthday today and please help us in celebrating her!! Happiest of birthdays to you💚

10/10/2025

10/08/2025

Happy Birthday to our fearless director, Mandy Lanning!! We hope your birthday is as fabulous as you!! 💝

09/19/2025

Heartland Rural Counseling Services is excited to introduce our newest therapist Jalyn Shaw.

Jalyn Shaw is a Licensed Master’s Level Social Worker (LMSW) who provides part-time telehealth services at Heartland Rural Counseling. She will soon be a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker (LSCSW).

Jalyn earned her bachelor’s degree in 2019 and her master’s degree in 2021, both in social work, and both from Fort Hays State University. Throughout her time as a social work student and professional, Jalyn has worked across a variety of settings, including domestic violence prevention, child welfare, adoption, schools, trauma groups, hospitals, and clinics. She has experience providing counseling to a diverse range of populations, including groups, families, couples, adults, adolescents, and children.

She is nearing completion of her requirements to become a Registered Play Therapist (RPT), having completed extensive training in play therapy and theraplay. In addition, Jalyn has completed all three levels of the Art of Facilitation through the Family Peace Initiative, a program designed to support trauma processing in groups.

Jalyn offers services to anyone of any age, but feels most trained to work with children, adolescents, and families. She is also a strong Christian, and has a passion for providing Christian counseling, which she hopes to continue her training in.

“The world can be a tough and challenging place, and often times it throws more at you than you think you can handle, but I believe that nobody should face life’s difficult challenges alone. What I love most about being a therapist is getting to listen, support, and watch people as they create positive changes in their lives that they may have thought impossible at times. It’s amazing to see people find hope and realize how strong they really are.”

If you are interested in booking services with Jalyn, please reach out via phone or email:

Phone: 785-269-1564
Email: jalyn@heartlandruralcounseling.org

09/08/2025

HOCO!! We love supporting our 🦅’s!!

08/15/2025

Heartland Rural Counseling Services, Inc. is pleased to welcome Karen L. Sullivan, LMSW, to our therapeutic team.

Karen brings 18 years of experience as a Licensed Master Social Worker, with a background in in-home family therapy and school-based social work practice.

For 16 years, Karen served as a School Social Worker in Northwest Kansas, with the past 9 years in Colby Public Schools. In this role, she provided counseling, behavior consultation, and a wide range of supports for students, families, and staff. Karen was a dedicated advocate for youth in our community and built strong partnerships with a variety of agencies and service providers to better support students’ well-being.

“I believe everyone deserves to be heard, understood, and supported, and I’m honored to walk alongside people as they navigate life’s challenges.”

Karen is passionate about helping individuals and families feel seen and valued, empowering them to uncover their strengths, build resilience, and take meaningful steps toward healing. Her work is rooted in a commitment to fostering stronger, healthier communities through compassion and connection.

Having recently faced and overcome her own battle with breast cancer, Karen brings a personal understanding of the emotional and physical toll that health challenges can bring to individuals and their families. She has a special desire to support others as they navigate serious illnesses and health-related life changes, offering empathy, encouragement, and hope along the way.

Karen works with clients on a variety of concerns such as chronic stress, life transitions, anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting challenges, school-related issues, and grief. With deep roots in the community, she is excited to continue serving the people of Colby and the surrounding areas, offering compassionate, evidence-based care to individuals, families, and children.

If you are interested in services with Karen you can reach out to her by phone or email:

785-269-7635 (call or text)
karen@heartlandruralcounseling.org

Please join us in giving Karen a warm welcome to the Heartland Rural Counseling Services family!

07/26/2025

HRCS took their turn at the Tilt-a-Whirl last night. Tonight's the last night, so come on out and enjoy the Thomas County Fair.

Special thanks to Marci Stickel with 5S Designs for the amazing shirts💚💚💚

07/22/2025

A huge Happy Birthday shout out to our Kate Ostmeyer!! We hope you have one very special day☺️

04/30/2025

Thank you Colby High School Seniors Dalton and Caden for coming and making our front beautiful 🌸🌺🌻
Thank you Trish Starbuck for arranging Senior Service Day! We love how our CHS seniors are giving back to our community!

03/26/2025

Heartland Rural Counseling Services will be closed from 8:00-1:00 pm tomorrow. We appreciate your patience and understanding.

02/27/2025

7th Grade Career Fair. Colby Middle School each year this fair gets better and better. Thank you for the opportunity.

01/27/2025

Thank you CPS! There were a lot of people involved in making sure this amazing training happened!
HRCS hopes to bring additional trainings such as these to our community.
A huge shout out to Jada Tubbs and the Thomas County Community Foundation for allowing us the opportunity to do so❤️

We want to say a huge THANK YOU to Mandy Lanning at Heartland Rural Counseling for writing a grant to provide PREPaRE training to our staff! 🧡

PREPaRE is an evidence-based training curriculum aimed to equip members of multidisciplinary school crisis teams and school-based mental health professionals to engage in comprehensive school crisis prevention and intervention.

PREPaRE consists of two workshops––
Workshop 1: Comprehensive School Safety Planning: Prevention Through Recovery
Workshop 2: Mental Health Crisis Interventions: Responding to an Acute Traumatic Stressors

We are grateful for the opportunity to be better prepared for our students! 🦅