10th Judicial District Contract Mediators

Lenexa, KS 

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Deborah has spent nearly 30 years as a mediator. She has extensive experience working with high conflict families.​

Kansas City, MO

 

​Emily attended Truman State University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Communication (minoring in Political Science), then the University of Missouri—Kansas City School of Law for her JD, graduating in 2010. Emily has been in the family law realm for her entire career, beginning as a Guardian ad Litem for abuse/neglect cases, and adding other areas of family law and mediation in the years after. 

Mission, KS

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Jim uses mediative influences to assist people in focusing on their issues, visualize their role/responsibility, establish a better frame of mind, and to work collectively and cooperatively towards their resolve.  His efforts focus on collaborative decision-making, parent coaching, and mediation.

Kansas City, MO

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​Kaelyn Guinty received her JD from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in 2018. She specializes in child and family services, and criminal defense and is also a Guardian Ad Litem. 

Johnson County, KS​

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​Karen Snyder is a Kansas Supreme Court-approved Mediator and Conciliator
who founded the Snyder Law Firm LLC in Leawood, Kansas. Her expertise is
representing parents and children as an attorney and Guardian ad Litem in family
and juvenile law cases in Kansas and Missouri. Karen is passionate about
helping families resolve custody and domestic disputes constructively through
empathetic, solution-focused mediation.

Kansas City, MO 

 

Kathleen has more than 15 years of expertise and have honed the necessary skills to help clients experience connectedness, fairness, and conflict resolution in their families. I am a certified mediator and graduated from Friends University with a Master of Science in Family Therapy. I completed a year-long post-graduate program in Bowen Family Systems. This framework explores the problems with emotional impairment in self–regulation and the theory of differentiation of self in high-risk families. 

Kansas City, MO 

Sarah is a certified Missouri and Kansas mediator specializing in civil, domestic, employee-employer, and community dispute resolution. She has over 25 years of experience facilitating individual and community conflict. She also has experience in matters related to domestic violence. She loves offering the opportunity for people and communities to come together to solve their conflicts.

admin@4familiesservices.org

 

4 Families is a non-profit organization in Olathe, KS whose mission is to protect childhoods by supporting families experiencing parental separation. Our mission is focused on ensuring every child has the opportunity for a stable and nurturing environment, even while facing the challenges of family transitions. We do this by offering comprehensive, trauma-informed, and child-focused services to families regardless of their financial situation. We provide a range of services, including: 
Supervised visitation, Supervised exchanges, Family therapy, Child therapy, Individual therapy, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

Additionally, our Program Director is a BeH2O™ Certified Coach. This program teaches parents a child-focused joint parenting approach. The program empowers parents to adopt the “be water” strategy when navigating co-parenting, helping to extinguish conflict and minimize collateral damage to children.

Olathe, KS

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In addition to being a licensed social worker and attorney, Trina is also a trained and certified mediator, conciliator, parenting coordinator and domestic case manager through the State of Kansas, and is trained as a certified divorce coach and conflict management coach. She is currently a member of the Kansas Bar Association, Johnson County Bar Association, Johnson County Family Law Inn of Court, Juvenile Bench Bar, Supervised Visitation Network, and Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. Trina is also trained in collaborative law.