Bernadette

Bernadette has dedicated the past 26 years to perfecting her skills and knowledge of beauty and skin therapies. Bernie loves this dynamic industry and the opportunity to work in a medical setting.

She believes in promoting skin care and skin treatments to ensure every client enjoys glowing, healthy skin. Bernie is the perfect person to guide you in every aspect of skin care and treatments.

At The Skin Clinicians Bernie offers skin care and skin treatments with the highest medical grade concentrations of active ingredients, medical grade equipment and treatment modalities to achieve the very best results for her clients.

Medical grade skin peels, microdermabrasion, medical grade skin needling, LED light therapy, depigmentation programs and general beauty maintenance are just some of the treatments Bernie performs at The Skin Clinicians.

Bernie is an expert in the field of beauty and advanced skin therapies and regularly attends advanced training to keep her skills at a world class level.
Her advanced standing, attention to detail, decades of experience and caring attitude makes Bernie the perfect person to trust with your skin and beauty.

We know you will feel confident and comfortable in Bernie’s experienced hands.

Meg

Meg is an Advanced Practice Nurse at The Skin Clinicians, and a proud mum of 3.

Meg has enjoyed formalised cosmetic injectable training through the Allergan Medical Institute and has had extensive advanced technique refinement under the tutorage of Karen to ensure her skills and results align.
Meg has advanced training in Cosmetic injectables, Coolsculpting & Ultraformer3 treatments.

Meg has specialist critical care tertiary qualifications and extensive experience in plastic surgery, woman’s health & coronary care. For the past 25 years, Meg has nursed in London, Adelaide, specialist departments at St Vincent’s Sydney, and most recently at The Wesley Hospital Brisbane in patient education & nursing within the specialty areas.

We are confident you will feel immediately comfortable in Meg’s very capable hands.

Dr Christopher Shirley

Chris has been a Medical Practitioner for over 25 years, graduating from the University of Queensland in 1988 with Bachelors degrees in Medicine and Surgery. Since then he has had extensive experience across all the surgical sub-specialities including cosmetic, plastic and reconstructive surgery. In 1993 he passed his Surgical Primary Examination with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons ( RACS ) and spent three years as an Orthopaedic Principal House Officer and three years as an advanced, accredited trainee in General Surgery.

His practice still includes extensive surgical primary care with a special interest in the management of skin cancer as well as aesthetic skin care. Dr Chris visits each Wednesday to conduct thorough routine skin checks, excise suspicious lesions and moles as well as skin irregularities for aesthetic purposes. No referral is required for these services.

As testament to his commitment to provide the highest quality of patient care, he is a member of the Skin Cancer College of Australasia (SCCA) – the leading representative and educational body for primary practitioners specialising in the diagnosis and management of skin cancer in Australia and New Zealand, and has completed the Certificate of Skin Cancer Medicine and Certificate of Dermatoscopy.

In recent years he has developed an interest in maintaining wellness as we age. He is a member of The Australasian Academy of Anti-Ageing Medicine which focuses on helping individuals achieve functionality and wellbeing into older age. Interestingly, the World Health Organisation recently announced 2021-2030 as the Decade of Healthy Ageing. Chris is married with four children which along with his many hobbies and interests keeps him happy and busy away from his work. Always striving to achieve a healthy work-life balance he enjoys cycling, kitesurfing, dirtbike riding and swimming and is a qualified and currently active Rugby Union referee.

Chris finds his work very satisfying, rewarding and constantly challenging but particularly enjoys helping his patients achieve the health outcomes they deserve.

Julia

Julia has been our evening and Saturday front office manager for over 4 years. While working at The Skin Clinicians Julia has completed a Biomedical Science Degree, Honors Degree in Health Science and is currently studying her Masters of Occupational Health.

Julia understands the cosmetic industry and the finer details of all our treatments and services. She loves having healthy glowing skin and is happy to explain the benefits of our high quality skin care and skin treatments.

It is Julia who will happily greet you Wednesday, Thursday evenings and Saturdays.

Christine

Christine has managed our front office and online activities for over five years.

She has a strong interest in the aesthetic industry with extensive knowledge on all our treatments and products.  Christine is a longstanding devotee of our medical grade skin care ranges & treatments.   She is no stranger to the health care industry with a twenty  year career in Qld Health IT behind her.

Before joining the Skin Clinician team, Christine worked alongside her husband in their hospitality business.   It is Christine who warmly welcomes you when you arrive at The Skin Clinicians and answers most enquiries and bookings.

Helen

Helen has been with The Skin Clinicians for over 2 years.

Helen completed her nursing training in central Queensland and was an accomplished theatre scub nurse at a busy Brisbane Hospital.  After having her 3 beautiful children, Helen completed beauty therapy training.

At The Skin Clinicians Helen performs all skin therapy treatments,  Ultraformer 3 (Medical Grade HIFU), Coolsculpting (Fat freezing),  assists Dr Chris will all IV therapies and excisions and regularly helps out on reception.

With years of nursing and beauty/skin therapy experience you will be very safe in Helen’s very capable hands.

Bernadette

Bernadette has dedicated the past 26 years to perfecting her skills and knowledge of beauty and skin therapies. Bernie loves this dynamic industry and the opportunity to work in a medical setting.

She believes in promoting skin care and skin treatments to ensure every client enjoys glowing, healthy skin. Bernie is the perfect person to guide you in every aspect of skin care and treatments.

At The Skin Clinicians Bernie offers skin care and skin treatments with the highest medical grade concentrations of active ingredients, medical grade equipment and treatment modalities to achieve the very best results for her clients.
Medical grade skin peels, microdermabrasion, medical grade skin needling, LED light therapy, depigmentation programs and general beauty maintenance are just some of the treatments Bernie performs at The Skin Clinicians.

Bernie is an expert in the field of beauty and advanced skin therapies and regularly attends advanced training to keep her skills at a world class level.
Her advanced standing, attention to detail, decades of experience and caring attitude makes Bernie the perfect person to trust with your skin and beauty.

We know you will feel confident and comfortable in Bernie’s experienced hands.

Tayla

Tayla is one of our highly trained Skin/Beauty therapists at The Skin Clinicians.  Tayla has a wealth of knowledge and experience.  She has worked at some of the most respected Spas and Retreats in Australia.  From the renowned ‘The Golden Door’ – Elysia Wellness Retreat in the beautiful Hunter Valley, One Wybelenna Spa & Wellness Sanctuary in Brookfield, Heron Island Luxury Spa, and most recently at Stephanies Luxury Spa’s.

To ensure only the very best treatment results and experience, Tayla has undertaken extensive advanced training in Dermal needling and medical grade skin treatments unique to The Skin Clinicians.

Tayla is passionate about skin and is excited to be joining a medical aesthetic clinic with such a strong skin health focus.

We know you will love Tayla’s gentle professional touch and feel comfortable and confident that you are in the very best hands to achieve your skin and beauty goals.

Karen Shirley

Karen is the founder and principal clinician at The Skin Clinicians, a registered nurse for over 30 years and the proud mother of 4 children.

Karen’s experience as a Critical Care Nurse Unit Manager, a leader in her chosen fields, with extensive tertiary studies including Masters Qualifications, shows her dedication to her profession and the highest quality patient care.

Karen is renowned for her understated elegant aesthetic treatments and for over a decade has been the trusted skin & aesthetic clinician for clients from all over Australia and the world.

Karen’s subtle and precise aesthetic treatments are in line with the French & European approach to achieving natural looking results.

Karen has completed advanced training in all fields of cosmetic rejuvenation including anti-wrinkle injections, dermal fillers, cryolipolysis (Coolsculpting), ultrasound face tightening and lifting (Ultraformer 3), Plexr Plus plasma soft surgery & medical grade skin treatments.

She believes in continued education and constantly updates her skills to maintain her world class standing & results. She regularly attends master classes, cosmetic medicine workshops with internationally renowned plastic surgeons, cosmetic physicians, cosmetic dermatologists, Allergan Medical Institute Conferences, one on one in clinic training and plastic surgical conferences.

Karen loves making people feel confident about their appearance. She advocates combination skin and aesthetic therapies. Having healthy, hydrated, luminous skin is the basis to obtaining the very best cosmetic outcome.
She believes trust and open communication between the patient & practitioner is integral in achieving the very best outcome and patient satisfaction.

Karen’s excellent reputation has grown from direct client recommendation, not marketing and for this she is truly grateful.

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