
29th Judicial District Contract Mediators

Jim Donovan, Mediator
jim.donovan.mediation@gmail.com
816-660-4815
5400 Johnson Dr #166
Mission, KS 66205
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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.

The Layne Project 4 Families, Visit Supervisors
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.
Kathleen McCarthur, MPA, LCMFT, LMFT, Mediator
kathleen@kemtherapeuticwork.com
816-287-3620
8080 Ward Pkwy
Kansas City, MO 64114
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.


