Julie has always stood for the highest professional standards, and ethical behaviour. As a successful therapist, Julie believes in giving back to her profession to help nurture and protect therapists, instigate standards and develop and progress the identity and professional growth of the beauty/skin therapy profession.

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Julie has been actively involved in the Beauty/Skin Therapy profession for the past 43 years. After 5 years in the dental profession, Julie transitioned to the beauty/skin profession where she practised as a registered beauty/skin therapist, electrologist/thermologist. During these years, Julie has tutored, been a technical adviser, mentored and been a trouble shooter for businesses, judged industry awards and had 4 very successful clinics of her own.

In 2010 Julie graduated as a qualified counselling therapist.  2014-2018 Julie was invited on to the Executive Committee of the N.Z Association of Registered Beauty Professionals and during her time there was the Complaints Officer and Liaison Officer with Government and other agencies [first to create this role]. While in this position Julie was responsible for:

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• Researching international health and hygiene requirements to create standards for the beauty therapy profession. Then wrote the Health and Hygiene Guidelines for all sectors of the Beauty/Skin Therapy practices and for adoption and incorporation in Local Authority By-Laws.

• Rewrote the Code of Ethics for all sectors of the Beauty/Skin Therapy profession.

• Aided members with inquiries and support therapists on a day-to-day basis.

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As Industry Complaints Officer:

• Liaised with DHB’s and councils around NZ as a spokesperson for industry and made recommendations, advised on improvements and made submissions to Councils regarding health and hygiene bylaw policies.

• Investigated complaints from therapists, members of the public and government agencies.  

• Invited to consult with various DHB’s regional health officers and local councils on public injuries, treatment protocols, areas of risk and hygiene.

• Recruited by Wellington District Heath Board to inspect and review complaints against nail bars, wrote hygiene reports, make recommendations, and provided protocols for DHB’s [now NZ Health] and councils.

• As an expert advisor wrote reports for Dispute Tribunal hearings and civil court.

• Currently an industry expert for the Health and Disabilities Commission and various councils around NZ.

• Supervised clinics as part of HDC directives.

• Presented at the Environmental Health Officers Convention.

• Represented skin therapists at Auckland Council Health and Hygiene Bylaw Workshop meetings.

• Represented beauty/skin therapists when Ministry of Health investigated appearance medicine and beauty therapy practices.  2019-2025 Out of a necessity Julie formed the NZ Board of Professional Skin Therapies. An independent national organisation that informs therapists of impacts that could affect the growth and development of the beauty therapy industry while advocating on best practice, registration, regulations and polices for the betterment of therapists and safety for the public.

  • Developed the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct for the NZ Aesthetics Industry

  • Developed a Complaints Process for the Aesthetics Profession and the Public

  • Introduced an internationally recognises Infection Control qualification.

  • Assisted clinics/therapists with day-to-day industry questions to upgrade their clinics health and hygiene standards and various other advice.

  • During Covid, as Chair of NZBPST Julie wrote industry alerts, mental health initiatives, instructions on covid mandates and provided a Pandemic Response Plan for the NZ Aesthetics Industry for the reopening of businesses following shutdown.

  • Julie was also instrumental in advocating to TEC during the RoVE review to move beauty therapy from the category of Toi Mai Creative, Culture, Recreation and Technology WDC [which included hairdressing, bone carving, recreation, parks, TAB and computer technologies] to Toitu te Waiora Health, Community and Social Services WDC. Now Under the New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification [NZ-SIC], beauty therapists are identified as skin therapists’, and we now appear under NZ-SIC Allied Health [S 95110].

  • During the RoVE investigation, Julie also advocated and prevented the deletion of the NZ Beauty Therapy Diploma, reduction of hours in the Beauty Therapy Certificate course and prevented the deletion of other speciality courses.

  • Submitted to Ministry of Health for skin therapy to come under the HPCA Act