Advisory Board
Experienced voices. Shared responsibility. Professional direction.
The APC Advisory Circle brings together experienced professionals from across the aesthetics industry to provide guidance, perspective, and strategic support to the Aesthetics Professionals Collective.
As a registered and regulated Community Interest Company (CIC), APC is accountable to its community purpose. The Advisory Circle exists to help safeguard that purpose by ensuring APC remains grounded, practitioner-focused, and aligned with the real-world needs of the industry it serves.
We are not a regulatory body.
The Advisory Board is a governance and guidance function designed to strengthen APC’s integrity, direction,
and credibility as a professional trade body supporting the aesthetics profession.
Nita McEvoy, Founder
Nita established the Aesthetics Professionals Collective to unite the entire UK aesthetics industry under shared standards, peer support, and collective responsibility. Known for her work at the intersection of education, innovation, and real-world practice, she champions a forward-thinking professional model where healthcare professionals and non-healthcare practitioners stand side by side with a shared commitment to public safety, practitioner wellbeing, and sustainable business success.
As Founder of APC, Nita leads the development of an inclusive trade support body grounded in clarity, accessibility, and professional integrity. Her approach is education-led and practice-relevant, focused on strengthening practitioner confidence, raising standards through shared knowledge and reflective practice, and creating a gold-standard community where professionals can grow, self-regulate responsibly, and feel a genuine sense of belonging.
Nita’s work centres on building a modern professional infrastructure for aesthetics, one that supports innovation and industry progression while keeping safety, ethics, and professionalism at the core. APC is the platform she founded to help the profession move forward together, proudly and responsibly.
Naomi Flower, Chair
Education & Protocol Development
Naomi Flower is a highly respected educator, dermal filler correction specialist, and regenerative aesthetics practitioner, recognised for her practical, creative, and safety-led approach to modern aesthetic practice. Her expertise in dermal filler correction has strongly shaped her restorative, structured approach to treatment planning and protocol development.
With extensive experience teaching at advanced levels, Naomi has supported practitioners across the UK to develop clinic-ready skills that balance innovation with real-world application. Her teaching is grounded in accessibility, technical depth, and a clear understanding of how treatments perform in practice, not just in theory.
As a member of the APC Advisory Circle, Naomi brings a vital practitioner-education perspective, supporting the collective’s focus on safe outcomes, professional confidence, and consistent standards. Through her work in protocol development, she contributes to creating structured, results-driven approaches that help practitioners deliver predictable, high-quality care while strengthening long-term professional capability across the industry.
Dr Kaushiki Balachandiran (Dr Kay)
Medical & Complications Expertise
Dr Kaushiki Balachandiran is a GMC-registered UK doctor with over a decade of clinical experience and a specialist focus on aesthetic complication management. Her work centres on the real-world risks of aesthetic practice, with extensive experience in recognising, managing, and educating around complications ranging from vascular events to complex emergency presentations.
Dr Kay brings a grounded, safety-led perspective to the APC Advisory Circle, supporting the collective’s commitment to evidence-informed practice, practitioner preparedness, and public safety across the aesthetics industry. Her insight helps ensure that professional standards remain rooted in clinical reality, education, and responsible practice rather than theory alone.
Through her advisory role, Dr Kay contributes medical perspective and practical understanding to APC’s work, supporting both healthcare and non-healthcare practitioners to practise with greater confidence, awareness, and professionalism within their scope.
Collective Governance & Advisory Role
APC is founder-established and supported by an Advisory Circle that contributes professional insight and experience to inform the collective’s development as it grows. This structure supports APC’s mission, values, and Community Interest Company (CIC) obligations, ensuring its work remains grounded in real-world practice and community benefit.
The Advisory Circle is not a regulator and does not adjudicate clinical, legal, or external complaints. APC does, however, provide a safe route for members to raise concerns relating to professional conduct, wellbeing, or harmful behaviour within the community.
Where concerns are raised, APC’s role is to listen, document patterns where appropriate, offer support, and signpost formal or statutory routes where required. In cases where behaviour is misaligned with APC values or harmful to the community, the Advisory Circle may support APC leadership in reviewing membership alignment, including withdrawal of membership where necessary.
This process relates solely to participation within APC as a professional community and does not replace external investigation, legal process, or regulatory action. It ensures APC remains practitioner-focused, supportive, and forward-thinking, with clear boundaries around authority and responsibility.
Building The advisory circle
APC is intentionally building an Advisory Circle that reflects the breadth, expertise, innovation, and future direction of the aesthetics industry.
We welcome expressions of interest from experienced professionals who bring:
Depth of practice or education experience
Strategic, governance, or leadership insight
A clear commitment to professional integrity and community benefit
Advisory roles are contribution-led and aligned with APC’s purpose as a Community Interest Company (CIC).
If you are interested in contributing to APC’s Advisory Circle, please contact:
📧 office@aestheticsprofessionalscollective.co.uk
with a brief outline of your experience and areas of interest.