Center for Family Mediation Founders

Stephen Evans, CAP, CDFA

Co-Founder

Stephen Evans is the co-founder of the Center for Family Mediation and Sandpoint Mediation and the co-developer of Solution Focused Co-parenting Education.  Throughout his career Stephen has worked with over a thousand families to successfully mediate their divorce and custody cases.  Stephen is certified as an Advanced Practitioner through the Academy of Family Mediators (ACR), is an Advanced Practitioner through the Academy of Professional Family Mediators (APFM), is a Certified Professional Mediator with the Idaho Mediation Association (IMA), is on the Idaho Supreme Court list of Child Custody Mediators, and is a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC).  Stephen currently serves on the Academy of Professional Family Mediators Board of Directors and has previously served as a Board Member on the Idaho Mediation Association Board of Directors.  Stephen is a full time professional family mediator, co-parenting educator, and conflict resolution coach specializing in conflict resolution approaches for high conflict divorce and custody cases.

Tamra Krutz, MA, LCPC

Co-Founder

Tamra Krutz is the co-founder of the Center for Family Mediation and Sandpoint Mediation and the co-developer of Solution Focused Co-parenting Education.  Tamra currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Academy of Professional Family Mediators and is a member of the American Counseling Association, a member of the Academy of Professional Family Mediators, a member of the Idaho Mediation Association, and is on the Idaho Supreme Court list of Child Custody Mediators.  Tamra is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in the state of Idaho with over 20 years of experience.  Tamra is a full time counselor, co-parenting educator, and child custody specialist who, together with her partner, co-developed Solution Focused Co-Parenting Education.