Heather T. Forbes, LCSW, is the owner of the Beyond Consequences Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Heather has worked in the field of trauma and healing since 1999. She is an internationally published author on the topics of raising children with difficult and severe behaviors, the impact of trauma on the developing child, adoptive motherhood, and self-development. Heather travels around the world working to educate and support professionals and parents raising children with traumatic histories. She strongly believes that the healing of the child is directly correlated to the healing of the parents and the family system.

Her signature style is to bridge the gap between scientific research and real-life application to equip parents, educators, and therapists with practical and effective tools. Much of her experience and insight on understanding trauma, disruptive behaviors, and adoption-related issues comes from her direct mothering experience of her two internationally adopted children. Heather is also the author of three best-selling parenting books and two cutting edge trauma-informed school resources.