Heather T. Forbes, LCSW, is the 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 parents throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe, with families in crisis working to create peaceful, loving families. She is passionate about supporting families by bridging the gap between academic research and “when the rubber hits the road” parenting. 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.
B. Bryan Post, LCSW, is the founder of the Post Institute for Family-Centered Therapy. He is an internationally recognized specialist in the treatment of emotional and behavioral disturbance in children and families. Post specializes in a holistic family-based treatment approach that addresses the underlying interactive dynamics of the entire family, a neurophysiologic process he refers to as, “The secret life of the family.” As an adopted, and well-known disruptive child himself, (“I’ve set fires, killed animals, and stolen compulsively.”) Post has made it his primary work to speak to parents and professionals from a perspective of true-life experience and in the ‘trenches’ of therapeutic work.