Kelly has been a veterinarian for 19 years. After completing a postgraduate certificate in veterinary rehabilitation at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, she opened her own practice, Holisticvet, in Diep River, Cape Town, South Africa. In 2014, just before the birth of her second child, she decided to take a sabbatical from practicing veterinary medicine and has since been swept up into the online world of veterinary education.