Heather T. Forbes, LCSW, is the co-founder and owner of the Beyond Consequences Institute. She is an internationally published author on the topics of adoptive motherhood, raising children with difficult and severe behaviors, and self-development. Forbes lectures, consults, and coaches throughout the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Europe, with families and schools in crisis. She is passionate about supporting families and schools by bridging the gap between academic research and "when the rubber hits the road" solutions. Much of her experience and insight on understanding trauma, disruptive behaviors, developmental delays, and adoption-related issues comes from her direct mothering experience of her two internationally adopted children.