Meet Melissa McDonald
Melissa is a degree qualified Naturopath and Nutritionist who is passionate about bringing balance back to your body and mind. Melissa uses a gentle holistic approach that is up-to-date and evidence based, used to assess and uncover the root causes of your health complaints.
Melissa fell in love with Naturopathy through visiting a naturopath herself for health issues such as acne and pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). She believes that herbalism is such a gentle, yet robust art that plays a critical role in modern society. Preventative medicine is far more important and a more reasonable health care offering than we give it credit.
Melissa studied her Bachelor of Health Science (BHSc Nat) at Endeavour College of Natural Health in Sydney and is a member of the Naturopaths and Herbalists Association of Australia (NHAA).
On days that Melissa is not consulting with all her clients, you will always find her outside in nature. She enjoys surfing at her local break with her community, bushwalking in new places around Australia and driving to new camping spots with her partner in their Hiace campervan.
What is Naturopathy?
Naturopathy is a health care system and philosophy that encompasses a variety of modalities such as functional nutrition, food as medicine, herbalism, flower essence therapy and iridology. Naturopathy is used to assess and uncover the root cause of your health complaints, placing emphasis on the connections between each organ in the body and how they work with each other.
Our philosophy is to treat the whole person, which relieves symptomatic treatment and focuses on resolving the root cause of illness. Naturopaths solely focus on using nature to cure, as the human body is designed to endogenously heal itself. If we remove the disturbing factors that cause disease then our health and mind will restore.