About Tamara

Tamara Zafiropoulos is a dedicated Educational and Developmental Psychologist with extensive experience supporting the mental health and learning needs of children, adolescents and adults.

Tamara is a trauma informed, neurodiversity affirming psychologist deeply committed to working with individuals, families, schools and other key stakeholders/organisations in a clients life. She is passionate about supporting people across the lifespan to lead compassionate and meaningful lives in line with their values.

Tamara provides individual counselling support to children 10 years+, adolescents, adults and parents/carers. Counselling sessions may be conducted in person in our inner north-east Melbourne psychology room in Fairfield, or online via Telehealth.

In her practice, Tamara adopts a warm, curious and playful approach. Therapy draws upon an integration of evidence based principles, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), and Humanistic Psychology as guided by each client's needs, goals and their context.

Tamara has experience working with people experiencing difficulties with:

• Anxiety

• Low Mood/Depression

• Stress

• Social and Emotional Difficulties Relating to Autism and ADHD

• Relationship Difficulties

• Low Self Esteem and Confidence

• Difficulties with Adjustment to Life Transitions

Tamara also conducts a variety of assessments for children and young people aged 4 years and older, including Autism Assessments, ADHD Assessment and Learning Assessments (such as Dyslexia Assessments, and other SLD Assessments). Assessments are conducted in person from our Fairfield psychology room, however some sessions can be conducted remotely via Telehealth.

Within the last decade Tamara has worked in various roles within the disability, mental health and education sectors, working closely not only with individual young people, but also parents, teachers, principals, and other key stakeholders.

Our Vision

Our motto is: All of You is Welcome Here.
At Palm Tree Psychology, we want our clients to feel safe to be who they are, while compassionately discovering new parts of themselves and developing skills to help live a meaningful life aligned with one’s values and goals. Our consulting space in Fairfield has been thoughtfully styled to help you feel calm and supported, with dimmable lights, a large variety of sensory grounding tools (a.k.a. figdet toys or fidget tools), and soft cosy blankets.

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide high quality, ethical and evidence based psychological counselling and educational & developmental psychology assessments to assist you on your journey.

At Palm Tree Psychology we strive toward continual learning and growth, aiming to ethically and mindfully work as culturally sensitive, trauma informed and neuroaffirming psychologists.

Our Values

Kindness, Compassion, Authenticity, Growth.