She has completed 3 additional years of study in Veterinary Oncology, Small Animal Endocrinology, and Small Animal Neurology through Massey University. She attended the first Australian Veterinary Palliative Care Advisory Council Conference in May 2018.

She is an avid campaigner for Fear Free Veterinary Visits and is a Level 3 Certified Fear Free Practitioner. She understands that the emotional wellbeing of a patient is just as important as their physical wellbeing and proactively takes steps to reduce fear, anxiety, and stress in her patients.

Dr. Belinda is, unfortunately, no stranger to grief. Her father died during her 2nd year in Veterinary School, and more recently she lost two grandparents and her father in law over a six month period. It is through her own experiences with grief and loss that she is not afraid to be vulnerable with families at this difficult time.

Her family apprises of husband James, daughters Lily and Georgie, and furbabies Charlie and Elmo. Her favourite activities outside of the veterinary world are bushwalking with the family (including the dogs) through our local reserves, photography and traveling the world.
Jack and Percy, were two very much loved members of Dr. Belinda’s family, it is in their memory that Dr. Belinda has decided to offer her in-home palliative care and euthanasia service.

Nicole graduated from Michigan State University in 2010. She has worked in the veterinary industry for over 20 years and began her career as a mixed (large and small) animal vet in the United States, then in Sydney for a short time, before switching to small animal practice. Most recently, before joining Rouse Hill Family Vets, she practiced as a locum around NSW.

Nicole enjoys all aspects of small animal general practice but is particularly passionate about dental health, fear-free visits, and aged pet well-being.

Her family consists of partner Tom (the 69th Australian to summit Mount Everest), son Reggie, and Labrador Goldie. As an adventurous family, in their free time, they enjoy canyoning, hiking, camping, and travel.

Emma has always loved animals, but it wasn’t until back in 2011 when she got a casual job in a pet shop did she realise that her passion and future were in the veterinary industry. She started studying in 2012 and has worked as a Vet Nurse for the last ten years.

Emma is a certificate IV certified Veterinary Nurse and Certificate III Fear Free certified. She believes that the chances of recovery for animals will be much faster if their experience is positive and as stress-free as possible.

Emma’s family consists of her husband Mark, her beautiful daughters Lilah and Charlotte. Her menagerie of animals includes her two dogs: Sadie and Rory. Her two cats: Lucy Lu and Jackson, her two rabbits Ruby and Rupert, and her 56-year-old Cockatoo Charlie, who she has known all her life.

She loves working behind the scenes on what goes into running a vet clinic but also loves getting to know our lovely clients. Be sure to say “hi” to her next time you are in.

Charlotte has been in the veterinary industry for almost 10 years and gained her diploma in veterinary nursing with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons back in London in 2015.

After fulfilling her life long dream to travel she decided to call Australia home. Charlotte lives locally and is a fur mum to border collie Summer and cat Luther.

She loves all aspects of veterinary nursing and has a keen interest in surgical nursing and exotic pets.

Casey has been working in the Veterinary industry for 12 years. She has her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing and is Fear Free qualified. She has a Certificate IV in Statement of Attainment of dog training and has graduated from Puppy preschool instructors courses. She has also done training with the Delta society. Casey brings a wealth of knowledge and compassion to our team and incorporates Fear Free and positive reinforcement techniques in all of her training classes and her grooming.

Her family consists of two beautiful horses Kora and Choice and two fur pups Poppi and Billie.

Kelly is one of our nurses who has joined the RHFV team in March 2021. She has been nursing in vet hospitals across Sydney for 9 years. She is Certificate IV Qualified Veterinary Nurse and Level I Certified Fear Free.

Kelly has a special place in her heart for cats and has 5 of her own! As well as cats, she has a love for and owns many pythons and bearded dragons, a Cockatoo, a few various parrots, and rainbow lorikeets.
Her fur-less family consists of partner Dylan and 2 beautiful boys Nicholas and Joshua.

She has a love for all aspects of veterinary nursing, but her favourite is the anaesthetic and surgery department, so feel free to have a chat when you see her next in the clinic!

Brittany is a qualified cert IV Vet nurse with over 4 1/2 years of experience. She is also fear free certified.

Brittany is very excited to join the team and loves coming to work every day and getting to care for our patients.

Brittany has 4 pets at home including a Maltese x toy poodle named Roxy, a Cocker Spaniel x Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Franklin, a cat named walnut, and a sun conure named Neville.

Kirsten started vet nursing in 2003. Since then she has worked at multiple practices gaining experience with animals ranging from cats to goats.

She has a passion for client education and often donates her spare time working voluntarily for various animal rescues and charities.

At home, Kirsten has a menagerie of animals including cats, dogs, and a female galah named Roger.

Brittany graduated with her Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing in 2017 and has been in the clinic for 4 years. Her furbabies name is Jake, a little 15-year-old Maltese X with one eye who spends a lot of time at work supporting her. Her passions include showing cattle at various shows, including the Sydney Royal Easter Show, and practicing circus arts such as Aerial Fitness (Silks) and flying trapeze.

Christine completed her studies in Animal Science at the University of Sydney in 2016. Before returning to Sydney, she worked in the United States and Thailand to pursue her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree. She has worked as a veterinary nurse across several clinics and is passionate about animal welfare. She is excited to be a part of the RHFV team and can’t wait to meet everyone!

Kitty is a Veterinary Nurse at Rouse Hill Family Vets. Kitty graduated from her bachelor’s degree in Animal Science and Zoology in early 2020, is currently studying a Masters of Wildlife Health and Conservation, and is on her way to becoming a Veterinarian. Kitty is level 3 fear free certified and has a passion for animal behaviour. Kitty has a wide variety of animals at home, including 8 cats named Sweet Potato, Tabby, Flossy, Charlie, Toby, Possum, Luna and Slushie, 2 Labradors named Meiko and Tilly, a Poodle X named Pablo, a chicken named Louanne, a duck named Basil, a snake named Iggy and a cockatoo named Francis.

Kitty loves Veterinary Medicine, animal health, caring for the amazing patients that come into her care, and helping to make them feel safe, happy and comfortable.

Emily started her career in the animal industry at the age of 16 as an animal attendant at a local vet. After doing that for one year she decided on a career change and became a fully qualified body piercer. It didn’t take her long to realise her heart will always be with animals which led her to rejoin the industry. She gained employment at a vet in the city where she gained many skills and knowledge about the running of a Veterinary hospital. She recently joined our team as a receptionist and is very excited to be here.

She is currently studying her certificate II in animal studies, once she has completed that she will move on to her certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing. Emily is very passionate about making all clients and animals comfortable and customer service is very important to her.

She lives locally with all her fur and feathered babies and is a little social butterfly. She loves getting tattooed and has done a good job to make herself stand out with them.

She is very excited to be kick-starting her career with the RHFV team.

Jen has worked in the animal industry for over 15 years. Starting out with her own mobile dog wash business in 2006, becoming a KONGsultant that took her and her dogs into pet stores showing owners the benefits of enrichment feeding, amongst other things. She is a qualified Puppy Pre School Instructor and is interested in positive/fear-free training and behaviour.

Her family consists of 3 Australian Shepherds and five cats. Oh, also a husband and two adult children.