Within the systems we work in, there are often unspoken dynamics shaping outcomes—an elephant in the room we’re discouraged from naming.

Heather’s approach creates space for what’s been avoided, opening the door to more honest practice, deeper care, and outcomes that are not possible within silence.

By inviting fresh and critical perspectives, this work shifts mindsets from charity and compassion toward dignity and liberation. It brings hidden truths to the surface—so better outcomes become possible, and you leave with a way of working you can stand behind, grounded in clarity, integrity, and renewed purpose.

Services

• Policy & Systems Consulting: Review, develop, or help rewrite policies through a harm reduction and equitable lens.

• Facilitation & Training: Workshops and learning sessions on trauma-informed practice, transformative justice, ethical peer inclusion, conflict resolution, harm reduction best practices and more.

• Strategic Advising: Support for leadership teams navigating low barrier, harm reduction centred, equity, and inclusion goals.

• Community Engagement: Building collaborative, trust-based relationships between institutions and impacted communities.

Approach

• anti-carceral.

• Centering the expertise of people most impacted.

• Rooted in relational, transformative justice and collective care.

• Grounded in harm reduction and trauma-informed principles.

Who this is for

• Health authorities/clinical teams

• Legal & civil liberty teams working with people in poverty and people who use drugs

• Services for high risk youth

• Non-profit harm reduction paces & social services/outreach teams

• Drug user unions, policy networks & advocacy groups

• Grassroots movements

• Labour unions

• Educators, researchers & community leaders

  *To inquire or book services, please fill out the contact form. For limited budgets please specify in your inquiry for reduced rates*