I have 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. 

I am comfortable and confident working with high-conflict families, providing Parent Coaching, Case Management, and Parenting Coordination services, including implementing and monitoring safe, workable parenting plans, and decreasing the courts' use to resolve child-related disputes.

Kathleen McCarther M.P.A., LCMFT, (mediation, neutral evaluation), Modern Mediation, is a professionally trained mediator providing mediation services since 2002;   Principal in McCarther and MacLachlan, specializing in workplace consultation in the area of conflict resolution and mediation; domestic mediation; civil mediation; and Parent-Adolescent.   Kathleen has more than 300 hours of dispute resolution training and co-mediation/mediation experience.  She has also participated in community-based volunteer mediation programs to provide services to the community.

Kathleen is an approved mediator for the Circuit Courts of Jackson and Clay Counties in Missouri, and a Kansas Supreme Court approved mediator.  In addition to her training in mediation, she holds a Bachelor’s degree in education-University of Missouri –Kansas City; Paralegal Studies from Rockhurst University and a Master’s degree in public administration-Kansas University and she has more than 15 years of experience in not-for-profit management.

Kathleen has provided mediation services to the Kansas City Human Relations Department, Park Hill School District, Clay County Circuit Court—Office of Dispute Resolution and the Community Mediation Center in Independence, Missouri , Jackson County Family Court and the Department of Health and Human Services.   She also teaches courses in Principles of Restorative Justice and an advanced Victim/Offender mediation skills course at the Johnson County, Kansas Community College.  Kathleen is also the founder of Mediation Network Association, a not-for-profit organization working to reduce conflict in families and communities.