Kym Veale (she/her)

Director and Physiotherapist

Qualifications
  • Bachelor of Physiotherapy (University of Melbourne)
  • Post-Graduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy (University of Melbourne)
  • Post-Graduate Certificate in Exercise for Women (University of Melbourne)
Professional Positions:
  • Teacher at University of Melbourne: Masters of Women’s Health Physiotherapy: Lactating BreastConditions and Physiotherapy Management
  • Teacher at LaTrobe University: Masters of Physiotherapy: Gender Specific Studies
  • Presenter on Lactation for Health Professionals: Accredited Training for Health Professionals treating mastitis and conditions of the lactating breast.
  • Vice President and Committee Member (2016 - 2021) of the Continence Foundation of Australia (CFA) Victorian Physiotherapy Group
  • Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) Women’s, Men’s and Pelvic Health Special Interest Group Member (2008 - current)
Special Interest Areas:
  • Pelvic Pain including painful periods, painful intercourse, conditions including vulvodynia, vaginismus, and endometriosis.
  • Children’s continence: daytime bladder and bowel accidents and bedwetting.
  • Birth Preparation for Couples - Active Birth Skills Workshops
  • Breastfeeding Education and Management of Mastitis, Abscess, White Spot and painful breast conditions
  • Trauma Informed Care. Navigating the impact of trauma in the physical body and guiding patients to a place of empowerment.
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Kym is the Director of Womankind Physiotherapy. Womankind Physiotherapy opened in 2016 and has become the leading women’s and pelvic health clinic in the North Eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Kym began working in Women’s Health Physiotherapy in 2010 under the mentorship of Melinda Cooper at Marshall St Practice in Ivanhoe. There she became skilled in the management of breast-feeding conditions and has been teaching mastitis management to physios and health professionals across Australia and Internationally through the accredited
Lactation for Health Professionals course since 2011. Marshall St Practiced merged with Inform Physiotherapy in Fairfield in 2014 and Kym became a team leader continuing to pursue her passion in pelvic pain conditions, pessary management and birth preparation. Kym has taught at both Melbourne University and LaTrobe University for their women’s and pelvic health specific subjects, she regularly presents and speaks at events to raise awareness of women’s and pelvic health conditions. 

Kym has a background in classical ballet, learning under Christine Walsh OAM and progressing to positions with the Australian Ballet Junior and Senior Associate programs as a teenager. She was introduced to pilates at the age of 12 and has studied and practiced pilates since that time. Kym is an avid exerciser for both personal and professional interest. She has participated in CrossFit for many years, also dabbled in gyms including F45, BFT and competed in fun runs and a few (small) triathlons. She enjoys helping women to return to impact sports following childbirth or pelvic floor conditions. 

Kym has two teenage daughters and one husband who have taught her many things about life, relationships, motherhood, and herself. She brings a wealth of experience and compassion to her work and her clients each and every day.​

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