All staff within True Support & Therapy specialise in providing support to participants of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. We are passionate about helping NDIS participants manage the barriers and gaps in our mental health system by upholding their autonomy, dignity, and right to inclusive and independent living.
Meet Our Behaviour Support Team
Tara Impala
Director | Advanced Behaviour Support Practitioner | PsychologistIt has been Tara’s privilege to work for over nine years in Victorian mental health and disability. During this time, she has learnt that providing support and therapy to people reaches far past what is taught in schools and books. Her clients have been her greatest teachers and they have worked together to understand their world, and connect with their sense of self to build meaning and comfort in their lives.
Fil Giuliani
Fil has a lifetime of experience in management and operations. She understands and upholds True Support & Therapy's values of integrity, cultural responsivity, and person-centred work within our social inclusion framework of disability. Fil's operational management of True Support & Therapy ensures the services we provide to participants are in line with current NDIS Practice Standards, and are subject to continuous improvement through our encouragement of feedback and participant consultation of services.
Operations Manager
Amie Alsulami
Behaviour Support PractitionerAmie is a highly motivated and dedicated practitioner, committed to providing participants with compassionate and culturally responsive support. She has a Master of Social Work with a professional background in family violence and crisis case management, and she also speaks Arabic fluently.
Amie takes a systems-based approach with strong assessment skills to understand the whole picture of her client’s lives with clinical expertise in collaboration with participants, families and support teams.
Amie currently has availability to service Melbourne North areas.
Matthew Lambert
Matthew is a neurodivergent practitioner who brings genuine lived understanding to his work with participants and their families. Having spent years navigating a world built for a different kind of mind, he knows first-hand how exhausting it can be to move through systems that were never designed with you in mind, and he brings that insight directly into how he supports others. This insight also translates to the kind and patient support he providers to families and carers.
Matthew takes an honest, curious approach to behaviour support. He looks closely at the whole picture, rather than just the diagnosis, to understand what a behaviour is really communicating and what's been shaping and reinforcing it over time.
Matthew currently has availability to service Melbourne East, North, and Metro areas.
Behaviour Support Practitioner
Chloe Taylor
Chloe is currently completing her postgraduate studies in professional psychology and she holds a strong passion for empowering young minds and supporting people to feel confident, capable, and truly understood. Her backgrounds stems from both lived and professional experiences in early childhood education and supporting individuals with complex behaviours, neurodivergent disorders and individuals with complex mental health presentations. Chloe is driven to make a meaningful difference in the lives of her clients and her goal is to create a space where individuals feel safe, supported, and genuinely excited to be themselves while building the skills and confidence to thrive.
Chloe currently has availability to service Melbourne North and Inner Metro areas.
Behaviour Support Practitioner
Mequanent (Mack) Kifle
Mack has over five years' experience in the mental health industry across forensic, hospital, community and residential disability settings. He holds a Bachelor of Psychology, a Graduate Certificate in Mental Health, and an Advanced Graduate Diploma in Psychology.
Mack's practice is person-centred and evidence-based, focused on understanding the function behind behaviour and building environments where people can thrive rather than simply manage risk. He works closely with participants, families and support teams to make plans practical and genuinely usable day to day.
Outside of practice, Mack draws on more than a decade in the fitness industry and is a keen endurance athlete - a reminder that wellbeing is physical as much as psychological.
Behaviour Support Practitioner
Maggie Coyle
Maggie is an especially passionate practitioner who embodies the social inclusion framework of disability in her support services.
She is a political science student with a professional background in disability support work, and she is also an active member in community social justice events.
Maggie upholds values of integrity, respect, and advocacy in all of her work with participants, and strongly commits to improving their quality of life as guided by their own vision for their own life.
Maggie currently has availability to service Melbourne South East and North areas.
Behaviour Support Practitioner
Nadine Barnes
Nadine is a compassionate and experienced practitioner with more than 25 years working alongside children, young people, families and school communities. She is an Educator and Counsellor in training across learning diversity, behaviour support, and wellbeing spaces with postgraduate qualifications in educational leadership, special needs education and allied school psychology.
Nadine takes a warm, strengths-based and collaborative approach, recognising that behaviour is a form of communication. She works with participants, families and support teams to understand individual needs, identify the function of behaviours, and develop practical, person-centred strategies that promote safety, autonomy, inclusion and meaningful participation.
Nadine currently has availability to support participants across Melbourne’s western suburbs.
Behaviour Support Practitioner