Dr Nelly Robeet (°1970) graduated from KULEUVEN in 1997. She obtained the EKG degree and followed the free training in child psychiatry. In her first internship year, Dr Robeet worked in the UK. She attended the Margaret Pyke Institute, training in “Womens health/ Family planning”. Upon her return from the UK, she worked for 5 years in her native village, Tervuren.
Meanwhile, Dr Robeet has been working in Brussels for more than 23 years, where she continued to develop the Spapraktijk into its current form.
For 10 years, she was prevention doctor in 3 crèches attached to the Dutch-speaking school group in Brussels. On a 3-weekly basis, the toddlers and pre-schoolers were given preventive examinations.
During that period, Dr Robeet went to Peru for 2 months, where she developed the medical practice in a project focusing on less well-off families and street children. (www.kuychi.org)
For 12 years, Dr Robeet worked as a volunteer doctor at an archaeological site in Turkey where the University of Leuven is conducting excavations in collaboration with the Turkish University of Burdur. (www.sagalassos.be)
In the summer of 2016 and 2018, she worked in the Moria refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece, during the refugee crisis. There, together with Dutch colleagues from the BFR, she provided consultations in the camp and oversaw the urgent reception of boat refugees. (www.bootvluchteling.nl)
Dr Robeet loves people, culture and nature. This is why she loves her work, and increasingly combines it with travelling and volunteering.
She finished her training in herbalism (Herbalist) to be able to advise patients even more holistically at their request. Her basis remains scientific, respectful, empathically supported and surrounded by nature.
She has 2 super boys aged 15 and 18 who enjoy their mum’s cooking with fruits and vegetables from her own vegetable garden, who occasionally borrow her bike that she herself enjoys cycling to work on. Her boys, who learn from her the values and norms she tries to put into practice every day… Walking and breaking step records are a common goal in so many beautiful places around the world.
Music is in her fingers… the piano is her old faithful. Both classical music and a solid rock performance by her husband keep the appropriate vibes in the house.
She is grateful to be a GP in Brussels, each patient enriches her as a doctor but more importantly as a human being, through their unique background and uniqueness.