Tash is a psychologist and former educator who has spent more than fifteen years working alongside children and families. She returned to study in 2020 to retrain as a psychologist, drawn by a deeper interest in what children were communicating in classrooms and in supporting the families and adults around each child. Compassionate and dedicated in her approach, she works collaboratively with children, adolescents and parents to live well alongside anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, neurodivergence, learning difficulties and the ordinary challenges of growing up, and to move towards what matters most to them. As a mother herself, Tash understands the realities of family life from the inside. She sees parents as people in their own right and with their own histories. She works from the understanding that children need “good enough” parents/carers who can repair and reconnect, not perfect ones. In addition to her work in schools, Tash has experience working in a telehealth perinatal setting with adults throughout all stages of pregnancy, birth and parenting. She is passionate about creative, play-based work that meets children where they are, recognising that play is how children make sense of experience and express what they may not yet have words for.