About Tabvuma Mental Health
Culturally responsive and inclusive mental health support
Tabvuma Mental Health is your trusted intersectional companion for your self-discovery and growth journey. We enable you to navigate life’s challenges with safety, confidence and peace.
Vision
Tabvuma Mental Health envisions a world where people with diverse and intersecting experiences achieve and sustain optimal mental wellbeing.
Mission
At Tabvuma Mental Health, we meet you at whatever stage of their mental wellness journey. Our commitment is to CARE at all times by:
- Centering Cultural responsiveness and inclusivity in all the work we do,
- Ensure you have Accessible and responsive mental health support that meets your level of need
- Respect your intersectional and unique needs and experiences, and
- Empower you with practical skills to navigate daily challenges, build resilience and thrive.
Values
Drawing inspiration from African spirituality, Tabvuma Mental Health models and embodies values based on the turtle totem. The turtle totem has cultural significance and symbolism for:
- Wisdom – we strive to be a source of knowledge whilst simultaneously humbling ourselves to learn from every interaction and experience.
- Internal Strength and Safety – we operate from a strength-based, culturally responsive and trauma-informed approach. By doing so, we cultivate your strong sense of self-efficacy and safety in the mind, body and spirit.
- Empower – we prioritise fostering your independence to cope with life’s challenges, build resilience and thrive
- Transformation -we believe in constantly evolving to better meet the needs of people with diverse and intersecting experiences.
How can we help?
We acknowledge that we live and work on the land of the Dhawaral people of the Eora Nation, a land whose sovereignty remains un-ceded. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and emerging. We acknowledge that our work here takes place on Aboriginal land
