Caryn trained in London at Westminster Hospital and qualified as a Registered General Nurse and a Registered Sick Children’s Nurse. She became a Queen's Nurse in 2018. She has worked in paediatrics in London and Manchester. She specialised in metabolic medicine at Great Ormond Street Hospital. For the past 15 years Caryn has specialised in adults with learning disabilities and epilepsy and is currently an Epilepsy Specialist Nurse working in the community in Cornwall. Caryn has published a number of articles in peer reviewed journals relating to research into various facets of epilepsy care. She is currently on the committee of the South West Epilepsy Nurses Group and is Vice Chair of the Epilepsy Nurses Association (ESNA)