Team: Our Team

Ann Butler is a Nurse Practitioner in Men’s Sexual Dysfunction with Vityl. 

Highlights

As one of the first rural and remote Nurse Practitioners in Australia, Ann is used to working with men in regional and rural communities and understand men’s reluctance to seek medical intervention.

Ann’s scope of rural practice has allowed her practice to be health broad and in 2016 was recognised by the International Nurse’s Association as a Top Nurse Practitioner and invited as a guest speaker with Dr. Norman Swan on ABC Radio in relation to Stroke management dedicated to ‘Beat the Stroke Down’.

Ann describes her approach to clinical practice as ‘very practical with a down to earth approach’. Helping people in the health journey is something that she cares deeply about and loves doing.

While rural life has been the centre of her work practice it is also very much a part of her personal life living on a rural cattle property where her family breed and train cattle and horses. When she’s not health consulting, Ann is typically driving machinery and fixing things.

Education

• buy Pregabalin online eu Charles Darwin University, NT [Bachelor of Nursing] – 2003
• order accutane from canada Flinders University, SA [Master’s Nurse Practitioner Rural and Remote] – 2010
• Flinders University, SA [Certificate Rural and Remote Management, Nursing] – 2011
• Australian Academy of Dermal Science, [Postgraduate Certificate, Cosmetic Dermal Science] – 2015
• Australian Academy of Dermal Science, [Graduate Diploma of Cosmetic Dermal Medicine] – 2016

Lynette White is a Nurse Practitioner with Vityl.

Overview

Lynette’s nursing career commenced in Ireland, following the completion of her Bachelor of Nursing. Looking to expand her career and see the world beyond Ireland, Lynette migrated to Australia in 2008 and took on an Emergency Critical Care role at the Alfred hospital, Melbourne until 2012.

Lynette spent the next five years broadening her health experience, working and studying in rural Western Australia, whilst receiving her qualification as a Nurse Practitioner.

As a way to consolidate and continue expanding my scope of Nurse Practitioner skills, Lynette transferred from rural health back to tertiary-based hospital medicine, managing acute health and deterioration of chronic diseases to include diabetes, wounds, respiratory, cardiac, and gastrointestinal health.

Lynette also has experience as an educator. She has developed quick reference guides and education materials for Emergency Departments for the management of acute angle-closure glaucoma. Lynette also maintains Instructor skills for Australian Life Support.

Lynette’s other special interests include ophthalmology and burns management. Alongside her work at Vityl, Lynette is currently co-ordinating the COVID-19 vaccination safety clinic for the state, in WA, Australia.

Professional Associations

• Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (Member)
• Advanced Life Support courses (Previous Instructor)

Education

• Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland, [Bachelor of Science (Honors)], 2007
• La Trobe University, VIC, [Graduate Certificate in Nursing (Emergency Care)], 2012

Lori Peters is a Nurse Practitioner, specialising in treating Men’s Sexual Dysfunction treatment with Vityl Man.

Overview

Lori Peters is originally from California. She started her career in pharmaceutical drug design, but after a two-year Peace Corps term in West Africa as a Science Teacher Trainer, she obtained Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing at John Hopkins University.

Lori’s has experience working with a number of demographics and types of patients. She has provided health care with Hopi & Navajo Native Americans in Arizona and with inner-city indigent populations in Washington, DC. Lori has cared for Peace Corps Volunteers and US embassy staff as the Health Program Manager/Medical Officer for the US Peace Corps in Tanzania, East Africa. Lori is also an experienced educator and has also nursing at the University of Maryland, Marymount University, and Frederick Community College.

Lori has focussed both educated and practiced in the field of Pain Management, specifically, Lori has specialised in Headache Management. She was the Clinical Director for The Headache Center at Parkway which focused on the clinical, research, and educational aspects of headache management. Following this, Lori became the Field Medical Affairs Manager/Medical Science Liaison for Depomed, a small pharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of headaches and neuropathic pain.

Lori has been interested in telehealth since her work in East Africa and is excited to provide accessible health care using this platform. She believes it takes a team to care for chronic conditions and telehealth is the way of the future where interdisciplinary teams can provide coordinated, patient-centred care.

Education

• University of California at Berkeley, USA [Bachelor Molecular Biology/Biochemistry]
• Johns Hopkins University, Maryland USA [Bachelor of Nursing]
• University of Maryland, Maryland USA [Masters Adult and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner]
• Massey University, New Zealand [PhD Nursing]

Shadi Gray, M Psych, B Psych, is a marriage and relationship educator in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 

Special interests: Counseling Psychology, Organization Skills, Coaching, Group Therapy, Mental Health Counseling, Psychotherapy, Strategic Planning, Stress Management.

In 2014, Shadi earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology.

In 2016, she earned her Master’s degree in Psychology from Australia College. Her Master’s is in Counseling and Psychotherapy. 

Thanks to her exceptional skills, Shadi got a job as a group coordinator at The Hills Clinic where she worked in counseling and group therapy. Mental health counseling is her special area of expertise, so she was able to provide lots of patients with adequate support at this job.

Moreover, Shadi’s current job is as a marriage and relationship educator. She works at the CatholicCare Sydney. Shadi’s post within this organization is to counsel married couples and to provide them with mental health support and psychotherapy. 

Shadi has many years of experience working couples counselling. Her professional goal is to help couples repair their relationships and understand each other better.

Dimitri is a Pornography Addiction Recovery Coach and recovered addict. Dimitri helps high-achieving men and their partners heal from their toxic relationship with pornography and live a happy and purposeful life.

“I had been an addict for 16 years, when, convinced I would be an addict for life, I started looking into ways I could use my addiction in a constructive way. “

Dimitri began to study the nature of addiction and its effects on the mind and relationships.

“Six months later, I was healed. After 17 years of struggle, I was finally free. Goodbye wasted hours, feelings of guilt, loneliness, shame, inadequacy, low self-esteem, failure at communicating.”

Since then, Dimitri has coached hundreds of men out of their toxic relationship with pornography, healing their core trauma and live a meaningful life.

In his treatment protocol, he uses a method that allows for progressive deconditioning away from pornography. My clients also work on successfully integrating the shadow / wounded child through Transactional Analysis, trauma reprocessing and sexual fantasies analysis.

Prior to becoming a highly acclaimed coach he had completed his PhD in Astrophysics at Macquarie University.

Listen to Dimitri’s story here.

Ramil is a life coach with an interest in helping men understand and unlock their mind-body connection.

Overview

Ramil’s own personal journey and recovery from hitting rock bottom made him realise first-hand ‘the journey of discovery is worth seeking out’ as a way to overcome challenges and conquer what you desire.

One of the common trends Ramil sees amongst our patients seeking support in the area of sexual dysfunction is elevated stress levels, non-stop on-the-go behaviour, and the inability in knowing how to unwind and decompress.

Ramil’s number one goal as a life coach is helping people get to where they want to. In other words, Ramil’s job is to help you find yourself.

Approach

Ramil has designed his coaching style to help people search within themselves, find their inner child, lose their emotional junk to feel lighter, and identify unlocking methods that work for the person.

Ramil has developed a diverse range of tools and techniques to enable a person to go from start to goal. Ramil also ensures there is always flexibility to adapt the process to find out what works best for them. Ramil refers to this adjustment of process ‘finding oneself in their frame’.

This process of adjusting to fit the frame is also very important because it unknowingly helps us build trust within ourselves which makes us more able to overcome the fears that often make us revert back to behaviour when faced with change.

Through Ramil’s own personal journey combined with the journey of helping many people, Ramil has mastered the art to be relatable, in touch and able to take people from a point of feeling stuck to living the life that they wish to live.

Nikki Evans is an Emotional Regulation & Life Coach specialising in re-wiring the brain for a more positive mind-body connection.

Overview

Nikki understands what it’s like to be stuck in a cloud of negative self-talk. She has cultivated a toolbox of techniques to manage her own thoughts and emotions over the last 10 years. It was only when she started to see her own transformation that she realised these tools are essential for all humans.

The twists and turns of life can at times make us feel vulnerable, lost, and emotionally uncertain. With uncertainly comes reduced clarity, feeling increasingly awkward and less confident in how we approach and go about things.

The connection between our mind and body goes hand-in-hand. The thoughts and emotions that consume us each day make up how we see ourselves and our abilities. Why? Because these very same thoughts and emotions fuel our subconscious mind and find their way into the conscious, ‘thinking’, part of the brain.

As a result, we struggle to take control of our thoughts and rather our thoughts begin to take control of us.

We are left feeling emotionally dysregulated, struggle to communicate effectively, and become increasingly fearful about what we can do and can be.

At Vityl, Nikki’s self-talk sessions help Men reconnect with their confidence in the bedroom through positive language and thoughts.

Approach

In her sessions, Nikki uses a variety of tools from NLP, Time Line Therapy, Coaching, and mindfulness to help our patients connect back with their internal world, understand who they really are at their core, and use that understanding to make huge, transformational changes in their behaviour with the ultimate goal to increase the quality of their life.

The journey to rediscovering oneself starts with the thoughts that you tell yourself each day. 

Education

• The Health Coach Institute, [Health and Life Coaching Diploma] – 2019

Overview

Sasha’s own personal journey led to her starting a career as a life coach. Sasha was achieving her goals, and living a life she had set out for herself when, one day, it all came crashing down unexpectedly. Sasha realised her goals were not from her true self, but to prove herself. Sasha would feel an emptiness afterward and realised it was because her goals lacked meaning. Sasha completed Yoga training and found enlightenment through mentors with expertise across the fields of science and spirituality.

After moving to North Sydney, Sasha started using her new found enlightenment to help other high-achieving professionals to help them transform their minds to becoming more authentic leaders, and have more meaningful relationships.

Sasha uses her experience to help men understand and improve their relationships and identify ways to manage and combat stress.

Approach

Stress comes in all shapes and sizes and can occur at any point in a person’s life, sometimes unexpectedly but often unexpectedly. When stress rears an ugly head it can cause us to feel more negative, confused, anxious, unwell, prevents us from functioning at our best and creates that feeling that there is nowhere to escape. In turn, this affects the relationship we have with both ourselves and those around us further fuelling our stress levels. 

Sasha takes a consultative coach style approach to develop skills to deal with negative emotions without turning to dysfunctional ways to suppress them, build skills to enhance relationships, and identify coping strategies.