01/10/2026
🎉 25 YEARS OF RHYS! 🎉
Our Principal Audiologist and co-founder, Rhys, is celebrating 25 years in audiology, and we couldn't let it pass without a proper celebration! 🥳
A quarter of a century is a huge achievement in any career. In a profession built on listening, it means 25 years of helping people reconnect with the conversations, music and moments that matter most to them 👂💙 Whether you've sat in his clinic chair, watched him on YouTube or heard him on the radio, there's a good chance Rhys has helped you hear a little better!
🏥 Where it all began
Rhys started his career in the NHS, where he spent seven years as paediatric lead while also practising as a principal audiologist. Working with children and their families shaped the way he still works today: patient, reassuring and always taking the time to explain. 👶👨👩👧
🤝 Building Audiology Associates
In 2014, Rhys and Leah co-founded Audiology Associates with a simple idea: a family-run clinic where patients get unhurried, expert care with no sales pressure. ✨ Complimentary hearing tests, free two-week trials of new technology and aftercare built into the price all come from that same belief.
Today we have clinics in Ebbw Vale and Cardiff 📍 and a brilliant team of audiologists, dispensers and support staff who share Rhys's approach to looking after people properly.
📱 Reaching millions
Rhys has never been one to keep his knowledge in the clinic room! 🎙️ As BBC Radio Wales' resident audiologist, he answers listeners' questions about hearing health on air.
He also runs our YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, and the numbers speak for themselves 🤯
▶️ Around 600,000 YouTube subscribers
🎵 Over 1.2 million TikTok followers and 11.5 million likes
Viewers from Wales to the US 🏴🇺🇸 tune in to learn about their ears, and of course for those satisfying wax removals! 😅
🏆 Recognition along the way
This year Audiology Associates was named Best Audiology Company in Wales at the SME United Kingdom Awards 🥇 and Health and Wellbeing Winner at the Best of Southeast Wales Business Awards 🌟 Rhys also holds HCPC, BAA, BSHAA and RCCP registrations.
But if you ask Rhys, the awards aren't the best part. It's the patient who hears their grandchild clearly for the first time 🥹 or the one who walks out after a wax removal amazed at how loud the world is! After 25 years, that still hasn't changed. ❤️
💐 Thank you, Rhys
From all of us at Audiology Associates: thank you. For the expertise, the patience, the endless enthusiasm for ears 👂 and for building a clinic we're all proud to be part of. Here's to the next chapter! 🥂
💬 Has Rhys helped you or someone you love? We'd love to hear your stories! Drop them in the comments below 👇 or send us a message, and we'll make sure he sees every one. 💙