About Tasha
Tasha is the Director and lead trainer for Blooming Minds. She has been providing mental health and wellbeing training programs throughout Australia for more than 11 years, including guest lecturing at both Murdoch and Curtin Universities and presentations at local and national industry conferences. Tasha is an engaging presenter who delivers a serious topic in a warm, engaging and humorous style. Tasha has a background in psychology, disability, employment, psycho-social rehabilitation and aged care services.
Tasha is accredited to deliver the Mental Health First Aid program, with a Master Trainer status by the MHFA Australia program at Melbourne University. Tasha has delivered this course to more than 200 groups over the last 6 years, including: teachers; psychiatric nurses; HR personnel; mental health consumers and carers; aged care staff; disability staff; vocational rehabilitation providers; case managers and various government departments.
Tasha has a keen interest in reducing the stigma about mental illness and increasing mental health literacy in our communities and workplaces. She has developed our workplace wellbeing programsto assist people to take responsibility for their own mental health and wellbeing and to act proactively in supporting the mental health of those around them.
About Angi
Angi has an ongoing interest in the development of mental health literacy in the workplace and community. Angi delivers our Mental Health First Aid and workplace mental health literacy programs. She has been working in the mental health field for 20 years in acute, sexual assault crisis, nursing and aged care fields, as well as privately delivering health and wellness counselling. She is passionate about reducing stigma and increasing advocacy for people with a lived experience of mental illness, their families and support networks. She has a particular interest in people who may have been wrongfully incarcerated as a result of their mental illness.
Since coming to Perth from the United States, Angi has been a mental health support worker for persons with bi-polar, schizophrenia, anxiety and depression issues. She has also delivered psychology course materials for the past three years at the University of Western Australia in a wide variety of topics from abnormal developmental psychology, research, cognitive neuroscience as well as the social sciences and the psychology of public policy.
Angi is currently completing her masters/PhD, specialising in the areas of Forensic Science and Psychology and has extensive knowledge of the impact of mental health issues on the community.
Angi is an experienced trainer who delivers our programs with respect, understanding and humour.