Colleen graduated with a Bachelor of Science Honours Degree from the University of Guelph in 2004 and then graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph in 2009. Since graduating veterinary school she has worked in Embrun, Colborne, Belleville, Apsley and Peterborough, Ontario. She started working at the Port Hope Veterinary Hospital in January of 2022. She has a passion for preventative medicine as well as feline medicine. Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her husband and son enjoying the outdoors with camping, swimming and skating in the winter. They also share their home with their five feline children.