Juliet qualified in 1996. She worked as a 1-1 Midwife,  Community Midwife and in the Birth Centre leading numerous homebirths and water births.

In 2007 Juliet set up the Acton community clinic for non-pregnant women with Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) offering same-day walk-in deinfibulation under local anaesthetic; accepting self-referrals; has no geographical boundaries; and pioneered a holistic model of care co-locating bilingual Health Advocates and trauma Counsellors. The service won a Guardian Public Service Award in Diversity and Equality in 2011.

Juliet was seconded for the Department of Health’s FGM Prevention Programme in 2014. In 2017 she became head of Knowledge Hub and Community Engagement at Barnardo’s National FGM Centre and simultaneously won and managed a £150,000 social exclusion award from Imperial Charity. In 2017 the community clinic was moved into hospital outpatients and rebranded, the Sunflower clinics.

Juliet is currently Trust FGM lead at Imperial College. She has trained countless Midwives, Doctors and other frontline professionals and leads community initiatives such as speaking at Arabic women’s coffee mornings and annual teaching at Somali summer university. She was previously member of the FGM National Clinical Group and the RCOG’s FGM taskforce; peer reviewed the RCOG’s FGM Green Top guidelines; and co-chairs the FGM National health network.

She co-authored the RCM’s FGM i-learning package; designed an RCM-accredited deinfibulation workshop; and presented to WHO FGM expert consultation in 2017;

She has published in several journals and book chapters. Is an IBCLC and set up the Complex Tongue Tie assessment clinic at Imperial College in 2012.

She gained her MSc from Kings College in 2013 and in 2022 was awarded an NIHR Doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship. She is undertaking her PhD at Nottingham University.

She currently co-leads ACERS-UK – Advocating for research into reconstruction surgery and psychosexual therapy. FGM Reconstruction Surgery – FGM Network