Christel is born and raised in The Netherlands and moved to country NSW in 2006 with her husband and two small children. She completed her ACRRM training through the Remote Vocational Training Scheme. The family expanded significantly with three more Australian born children and different animals over the years, including dogs, chickens, pigs, sheep, a pony, a cow and honey bees.

She holds a heavy rigid driver license, which she needed when the family travelled around Australia for two years in a large bus.

Currently she practices GP medicine mainly in Aboriginal health, emergency medicine and palliative care. She teaches Rural Clinical School students in Albany WA.  After discovering medical education, it is becoming more and more a passion.

Through her now teenage children she got involved with Climate Activism and is working on an individual and local level around the health care system to find ways to reduce carbon emissions in everything that we do.