Our Team
Our Team
Meet our Brassall Vets Family
Meet our Brassall Vets Family
Dr Rebecca Dempsey BVSc
Dr Rebecca Dempsey BVSc
Director and Senior Veterinarian
Director and Senior Veterinarian
Dr Bec graduated from the University of Queensland in 2011.
Since then she has been helping her patients and their owners in the Ipswich region and has spent most of her career here at Brassall vets.
In 2021 Dr Bec, along with Deb and Tara and their families, purchased the clinic with the dream of having a family owned clinic that offers their clients the best of care for their fur babies with understanding and support for them like no other.
At Brassall Vets, Dr Bec and her team truly love your pets!
Keeping up to date in the latest of medical and surgical care, you know your pets are in good hands.
Dr Bec is a knowledgeable, caring and compassionate veterinarian who is a highly experienced surgeon. She loves all aspects of veterinary medicine and surgery, and has a special interest in breeding, ophthalmology and all soft tissue surgery.
Having grown up with a large fur family, Dr Bec is so thankful that her two young daughters, Eden and Claire, are able to as well. They are following in her footsteps with a love for animals and passion for helping them, and you will often see the kids and her husband Mark helping out around the clinic.
With her own dogs, cats and ponies, she knows how important your pets are to you, and is passionate about treating them as her own.
From when you welcome your new fur baby into your family, to reminiscing when it's time to say goodbye, the team at Brassall Vets will be there for you and your pets.
Offering you options to help,
every step of the way
Deb
Deb
Practice manager & Senior Nurse
Practice manager & Senior Nurse
Deb started her nursing career at Brassall Veterinary Surgery 13 years ago. Upon returning from maternity leave, she has worked within the Ipswich region and is highly skilled in all aspects of veterinary nursing and practice management.
Deb is a fully qualified veterinary nurse, holding her cert 4 in vet nursing and has a passion for patient care.
She has also gained her bachelor degree in equine studies and certificate in hoof care and provides a wonderful hoof trimming service to equines in the Ipswich and Lockyer Valley regions.
Always keeping up to date with the latest in gold standard of care, Deb goes above and beyond to make your clinic visit as stress free for your pets as possible.
When she's not busy caring for rescue kittens or your fur babies she loves spending her time with her young family and riding her horse Indi, taking her standard poodles Hammer & Black Berry along for the ride.
Tara
Tara
Practice Manager & Veterinary Nurse
Practice Manager & Veterinary Nurse
Tara is a face you will all recognise as she has been part of our Brassall team for over 10 years.
Along with keeping the local coffee shop in business with her coffee addiction, as one of our amazing practice managers she helps make the clinic you love the special place it is. From being the friendly face on reception to singing to your fur babies while they have bloods taken, if you're not already friends with her you soon will be!
Tara has a passion for animal behaviour and is our qualified dog school educator.
Along with being fur mum to 3 dogs, "Ryder", "Lennox" and “Charlie”, a cat called "Oska", an albino carpet python “Mayo”, a few birds and her wildlife rescues, Tara is also a wife and mum to a couple of human children, who like her, love animals.
Tara also is our photographer, and keeps our clinic smelling nice as she is also a Scentsy distributor.
Sophie
Sophie
Veterinary Nurse
Veterinary Nurse
Sophie is currently studying her Bachelor in Veterinary Technology at The University of Queensland Gatton campus.
When she isnt busy caring for our local pets while their families are away on holidays, she is loving them here at the clinic!
With experience in all aspects of medical and surgical nursing, your fur babies are safe and loved in Sophie's hands.
Sophie is also a favourite among all the clinics little humans, with them preferring her over their own mums most days!
She keeps us all smiling with her humour and caring ways and is another valuable member of the team we wouldn't be the same without.
Sophie has a love of all creatures great and small, camping and sending time with her own pets and family.
Demi
Demi
Veterinary Nurse
Veterinary Nurse
Demi is the smiling face you will meet upon arriving at the clinic two days a week. Our wonderful receptionist and nurse has many years experience working in clinics and helping clients.
Demi's love of our patients and their humans is felt by everyone who enters through our doors.
She loves keeping up with the latest in nursing care and helping your fur babies in any way she can, even if that means having to 'force' herself to cuddle them all day ;)
She and her husband have two gorgeous little ones, Austin and Brooklyn, and their young family is completed by their three other babies, of the four-legged kind.
Demi looks forward to welcoming you and your pets to the clinic! Let her take a puppy and kitten selfie and she'll be your bestie forever!!