Miss Taylah Thompson-Patfield

Taylah Thompson, a Noongar/Yamatji woman, residing in Perth WA has recently graduated and joined The Jilya Institute of Indigenous Mental Health as a Clinical Psychologist Registrar. She is excited about assisting in the development of a cultural and clinical service delivery model for the National Indigenous Psychology Treatment & Assessment Centre, which enables clinicians to access the country’s most at-risk communities ,and provide psychological evidence-based practices to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, specifically. Taylah has experience working in the Perinatal Infant Mental Health (PIMH) Space with infants (0-2years) and their parents using Mentalisation-Based Frameworks, relational approaches and a developmental and attachment informed lense in her therapy. Taylah also has experience working children, aged 5 – 17years and predominately Aboriginal, in the child-protection and family support setting utilising risk assessments, crisis management interventions, cognitive assessments with a trauma-informed approach.