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Tania Reid (living in Melbourne, Australia)is a Registered Hoarding Consultant and Group work facilitator and offers training and supervision for those working in with hoarding behaviours. Hoarding affects between 3-5% of the population and is a chronic condition however there are few supports available. Tania's consultancy "For the Crowded House" (www.thecrowdedhouse.net.au) offers people with hoarding behaviours and their families, hope to reduce the impact of this illness.

Tania Reid holds academic qualifications in Psychology, Sociology, Arts Therapy, Community Development and has a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. She has worked for 12 years in community services within the Youth, Family, Housing and Mental Health sectors. Currently Tania manages a Mental health program at a community health service in the Northern suburbs of Melbourne. She also has full membership to the Ausralian Community Workers Association.

Hoarding specifically, she has trained with Dr Christopher Mogan in 2009 and 2010 and she currently engages in care coordination for several clients with Dr Mogan. She is a member of the Action Group on Hoarding, facilitated by Support for HIgh Risk Tenancies, Department of Human Serivces, and was a panellist and organiser of a recent forum “Creating Space for Change” about hoarding and squalor. This event was attended by 150 delegates from the North West Region of Melbourne. Tania was also recently consulted by the Victorian Department of Health to provide input for an internal discussion paper on hoarding and squalor. Tania attended the National Hoarding and Squalor Conference held in Sydney, February 2012.