Our Team

Ginger Rothhaas, Founder

After getting an MBA and a career in change management consulting, Ginger found herself on a new journey: to seek a life with deeper meaning. She went on to earn a Master’s of Theology and a Master’s of Divinity and found her calling: to teach others to see their worthiness, find their purpose, improve their relationships, and live up to their full potential. 

She began her individual coaching practice in 2017, then formed Compassion Fix and went on to build a team of coaches. As founder, Ginger is a writer, consultant, teacher, and speaker who leads an experienced team driven by a passion for helping others find their purpose and heal through the transforming power of compassion. 

In her free time, Ginger enjoys reading, taking long walks, and listening to “way too many” audiobooks. She also loves nights in with her family, laughter-filled dinners with friends, watching sunsets in the flint hills of Kansas, and dreaming about her next vacation—swimming in the ocean is her “happy place.”

Ginger has a forthcoming book entitled Being Human: 150 Practices to Make it Easier which will be available November 2023. It is filled with tools that we can all use to help us along our human journey together.

Brooke Brundige
Educator & Ministry Leader

Brooke’s background as a high school teacher and coach is what first fueled her passion for working with kids and families. Since then, she’s gone on to work in children’s and family ministry, walking alongside others to guide them and equip them with the tools they need to help discern and live by their values. (Along the way, she’s raised four kids of her own!)

Brooke believes mental wellness is crucial for teens and young adults as they face the struggles that come with navigating this great big world. Her experience in coaching has given her both the compassion and conviction to believe that often, what you need most is someone rooting for you.  Brooke also specializes in working with people of all ages who are going through difficult seasons “in the valley.”  Her own life-altering struggles have led to heartbreak and loss, but also paved the way to healing and a deep desire to help others through similar struggles.

When it comes to hobbies, Brooke is all about the outdoors—and if mountains are within reach, even better. Whether it’s pickleball, snowboarding, or shooting baskets with her kids, there’s nothing she loves more than “playing outside with my people!”

Lauren Claflin
Holistic Health & Life Coach

The long and winding road Lauren traversed to Compassion Fix often seemed more like a multi-lane highway than a peaceful scenic route. Juggling freelance writing and event planning with the happy chaos of raising four busy kids — and all the volunteer work and side hustles that accompany that — kept life at a manageable frenzy. But a constantly hectic life can become a free pass that provides the perfect excuse not to look too closely at your own goals. Lauren’s next purpose kept whispering to her, but a louder inner voice was shouting “it’s too late.”

It wasn’t too late … and once Lauren overruled those fearful voices, she went back to school to study neuroscience and the amazing power of our mind-body connection. One of the many transformative things she learned was DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU THINK. Beliefs are repeated thoughts, not objective truth, and those thoughts often keep us stuck in a cycle that doesn’t support our dreams or our happiness. But thanks to neuroplasticity, we can change our brains with new repeated thoughts. And when we change our thoughts, we change our lives.

Now Lauren is a fully certified mind/body practitioner and holistic health and life coach, and she loves helping people change their lives. She works with clients as they learn to overcome their stress, fear and anxiety, identify and release trauma, challenge and reframe outdated stories and limiting beliefs, manage hormonal and gut health, escape the waiting place and get unstuck, find their true purpose, and set a path forward. It’s not too late to LOVE your life …sometimes you just need a safe space and gentle guidance to remember how.

Outside of the work Lauren loves so much, she makes her life as intentionally joyful as possible by savoring time with close family and friends. She loves yoga, reading, music, and moving around outside as much as possible. She can frequently be seen exploring Kansas City with her people as they search for the coolest coffee shops in town. Lauren also adores traveling… and she’ll choose the peaceful scenic route over the multi-lane highway any chance she gets.

Amy Habben, MEd.

With a master’s degree in higher education, Amy started her career as a mentor, counseling and advising both high school and college students. She also spent 14 years working in care ministry, providing support and resources to those within a large church community facing physical, financial, emotional, or spiritual hurdles.

Amy’s passion is in walking alongside her clients, helping them to navigate life’s journeys—everything from relationships and parenting to feelings of loss and overwhelm. She has deep expertise in long-term relationships, spirituality and grief and considers coaching to be a culmination of her life’s training and experiences; her true calling. 

Outside of mentoring, Amy loves spending time near water—especially stand-up paddleboarding and yearly vacations in Michigan. She’ll walk with anyone, in any weather (she calls it “one of her love languages”), and says she’s a “huge fan” of her family, her friends, and her coffee. 

Heidi Weigel, LPC

Heidi joins the Compassion Fix Team as a licensed professional counselor (LPC), specializing in therapy for kids ages 6 - 18. Heidi holds a BS in elementary education from Kansas State University and an MA in counseling from MNU. She recently completed a certificate in Play Therapy also from MNU. Heidi has worked in the school setting at both the elementary and middle school levels. She is the proud mother of three grown children and understands the many challenges children are facing today. Heidi is passionate about supporting kids as they navigate challenges such as anxiety, perfectionism, negative self-talk, lack of confidence, loneliness, and difficult transitions. 

In order to create a comfortable environment, Heidi considers each child’s age, personality, interests, and presenting issues when selecting a therapeutic approach. Although each client’s path is different, she strives to provide therapy that will empower children and teens as they gain personal insight, seek growth, and implement strategies to create a meaningful path forward. 

As a collaborative team, Heidi works closely with parents in a non-judgmental environment to strengthen family connections and discover new ways to support their child. 

Heidi enjoys spending time in nature, the sound of her kids laughing, discovering new places with her husband, and challenging herself with all kinds of creative endeavors.

Samara Crawford Herrera, MSW

Samara believes her path toward helping others finding and unlocking their human potential or personal genius is rooted in her own winding journey in life. From service to her country as an Officer in the United States Navy, to a Masters of Education and work as public-school educator and, a Masters of Social Work focused on social justice policy and advocacy, Samara holds each life experience, professional and otherwise, as a “data point” on the pathway to a purpose-filled life. That purpose: helping individuals, specifically young adults (17-25), early professionals and mid-career changers understand their unique talents so they can thrive in life and work. 

Deep self-worth is built at the intersection of the 'study of self' and the development of our distinctive talents. Our personal genius, much like a talent, is a pattern of beliefs, mindsets, and actions that when applied, unlocks the fullness of our power and potential. However, it is common for the beauty of our genius to become overlooked, undervalued, and undiscerned. Samara helps people pause and take a step back from themselves, their lives, and the overwhelm they feel from the many choices and paths before them to identify, treasure and cultivate their genius. She believes we ‘sort and filter’ life better when we’re doing so in the clarity of our genius. 

While personal genius is Samara’s focus at Compasion Fix, she’s excited to support a variety of people as they navigate their unique strain of “humanness.” A wife and the mother to a very ‘spirited’ teenage daughter, on Saturday mornings (but not too early), you can find Samara curled up on the couch; a good book in one hand, coffee in the other and a trashy Lifetime movie on the TV.

Jenna Hyatt, LMT

Jenna started her professional journey as a licensed massage therapist and owner of a bodywork studio. With extensive experience in healing through the release of emotional stress and trauma in the body, she’s now expanded her expertise to include coaching and helping others through the healing power of talk. 

Jenna’s background in forming deep relationships through her work has given her a passion for helping those going through major transitions—like divorce, changing careers, or anything that invites with it a fear of the unknown. She believes that having someone walk with you can make all the difference in helping you get exactly where you need to go. 

In her spare time, Jenna is a self-proclaimed homebody who loves boardgames, hanging out with her friends and family, and cooking anything and everything. She loves challenging herself to master a recipe, and is currently hard at work on crab rangoons.

Ronda Zillner
Writer/Speaker/Facilitator/Entrepreneur

Negative internal dialogue, painful wounds inflicted on us, harmful labels and self-destructive behavior patterns rob us of a fulfilling, joyful life. Additionally, social conditioning, familial, cultural, and religious expectations contribute to self-doubt, people-pleasing, and low self-worth. These stories and limiting belief systems can shrink our world, resulting in an uninspiring life where we are left wondering: Is this it?

By integrating her personal experiences, life’s challenges and transitions, Ronda helps clients break free from the status quo and untangle the shame and guilt that’s keeping them stuck. She helps them be more intentional as to what changes they desire to make.

Ronda is a published writer, speaker, workshop facilitator, coach, and entrepreneur with an extensive background in mentoring and business leadership. She’s written curricula and taught classes through Compassion Fix, an online community founded to help open hearts and minds to the pain of others and the awareness that change can, and does, happen. 

As the founder and former CEO of Zillner Marketing Communications (ZMC) in Kansas City, Ronda was also a working mom and became one of the first business leaders in our area to establish a family-friendly work environment.

After an exciting 25-year run, Ronda sold her company, and successfully exited ZMC. Divorced and with two successful grown-and-flown children, it was time for a new adventure! She shifted her focus and energy toward her passion for helping others transform their lives by writing, speaking, coaching and mentoring others.

Ronda is an innately curious, life-long learner with more books than she can possibly read. She loves spending time with friends and listening to the stories of the fascinating people she crosses paths with. She marvels at the many different ways we can experience and try to interpret God’s intentions for us in the world.