Melissa is Board-Certified as both a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) and Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP). She has additional advanced training in Integrative Psychiatry (holistic approaches to mental health care). She has extensive nurse practitioner experience in psychiatry, family medicine, neurology and neurosurgery. She has worked as a nurse practitioner since 2013. 

Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family, her dogs, traveling, and gardening.