
Tara Graham-Cochrane
Tara is an internationally award-winning Landscape Architect who specialises in the design of healing and therapeutic landscapes for the healthcare, aged care, disability and education sectors across Australia. Tara is a strong believer that physical environments can be designed to reduce stress, improve health and to support people’s wellbeing.
Residing in Adelaide, SA, Tara is the Director of DesignWELL Landscape Architects, a landscape architecture firm that specialises in therapeutic landscapes. She has a passion for enabling people to connect with nature through therapeutic horticulture and is a founding member of THA. Prior to THA forming, Tara was President of Horticultural Therapy S.A and has been strongly active in bringing together the therapeutic horticulture community in South Australia.  Tara understands the importance of the physical environment in the lives of older Australians and is the S.A. Environmental Design Consultant for Dementia Training Australia. A government funded organisation who educates aged care providers on enabling and supportive care of people living with dementia. Tara is also the author of ‘Gardens that Care: Planning Outdoor Environments for People with Dementia’ and is well know around the aged care conference circuits as a speaker on dementia enabling landscapes.

DEAN GASTON
Dean has an associate diploma in applied science urban horticulture and is a full time Social and Therapeutic Horticulturist full time ECH
Dean Gaston is a passionate therapeutic horticulturist with more than 25 years in the Horticultural Industry; ten of those years as social and therapeutic specialist.
Dean has used his expertise in garden therapy techniques and enabling environments to devise programmes through a combination of exercise, stimulation and conversation that are creative and adaptive
A key feature of Deans programmes has focus on people living with dementia and older people that may be socially isolated.