Meet the Specialist Hearing Services team

We are a small, family-owned team, led by Chris van Wijngaarden and Sara Caspani since August 2025.

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Members of the Specialist Hearing Services team at the clinic reception in Mount Hawthorn.

Your clinicians

Meet our hearing care team

Chris van Wijngaarden
Director, Senior Clinician & Certified Lyric Provider
Dip. Audiometry · Member of the Australian College of Audiology (ACAud), incorporating HAASA
Chris grew up in the Netherlands in a family that works in hearing care. His grandfather was an ear, nose and throat specialist, and his parents founded their own hearing clinic. He trained in audiometry, the measuring of hearing, graduated in 2014, and then worked in the family clinic across all parts of hearing care.
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Dayle Hensman
Senior Audiologist & Certified Lyric Provider
BA Speech Pathology & Audiology · MAudA CCP
Dayle studied audiology and speech pathology at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. She started her career at a major referral hospital in the rural North West Province, where she saw a wide range of hearing conditions. She later set up and ran her own audiology clinic inside a private hospital in Johannesburg.
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Nicole Parfitt
Audiologist · On maternity leave
BNurs · GradCertClinNurs · MClinAudiology · Member of Audiology Australia
Nicole started out supporting people with disability, which is where she found she wanted to work in care. She studied nursing at Curtin University, graduating in 2013, and worked as a registered nurse for seven years.
- Adult hearing assessments
- Hearing aid fitting
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Running the clinic

Operations and front desk

Sara Caspani
Co-Owner and Director of Operations & Impact
While Chris leads the clinical side, Sara runs the rest of the business: marketing, operations, finance, administration and planning. She sets up the systems and processes that give the clinicians more time with patients.
Kelly Hall
Clinical Support Officer
Kelly joined Specialist Hearing Services in September 2021. When you call, email or send an enquiry, she helps you pick the right appointment, makes sure the forms and paperwork are done beforehand, and tells you what will happen, so you arrive knowing what to expect.
Sinead Cully
Clinical Support Officer
Sinead joined the clinic in October 2024 and works part-time at the front desk. She greets you when you arrive, answers calls, emails and website enquiries, and books and confirms appointments.

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