Speech Pathology

I personally am an Indigenous Australian. My mob is Wonnarua which is out at Singleton. I chose speech pathology because I knew I wanted to work with children, and my careers advisor at Southern Cross had suggested speech pathology, and then a few weeks later, I did some work experience totally fell in love with it and haven't looked back since. 

So at the end of 2020,  I officially opened my own business, it's called Eat. Speak. Repeat. Allied Health. I noticed there was a huge lack when it came to supporting our Indigenous Australians from a speech pathology perspective, so it's been really great to be able to serve my own mob and provide healthcare support for them. I've had a pretty good opening to the community as well. I think people have been really accepting, which has been lovely. 

Living in a small town, there's always a need for allied health. Most of the people who live here travel 45 to an hour just to get to their therapy sessions, so if I can alleviate that stress I would like to.

Heading into the future I would like to see my business expanded tenfold. I know that the area of Port Stephens desperately needs some sort of holistic allied health centre.

I think that I can do it hopefully within five years we're building it and we're getting people in there and serving the community in more ways than one that would be the goal.