

Our practitioner: Melissa Rivard
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Melissa is an experienced degree-qualified, registered Clinical Naturopath, Nutritionist, and Health Coach. She takes a client-centred, holistic, and evidence-based approach, addressing the upstream drivers of health concerns rather than just managing symptoms. Grounded in health education and behaviour change science, Melissa empowers clients to understand their unique holistic health needs, build agency, and make sustainable, personalised, and life-integrated changes.
Melissa's key areas of specialisation and training include: mental health, women's health concerns including perimenopause, PMS, PMDD, PMOS, endometriosis, and hypothermic amenorrhea; gut health, immune health, fatigue, stress, and metabolic health.
Melissa is committed to upholding her ethical scope of practice and promoting integrative care where both natural and conventional medicine can work together. She believes that the best outcomes can be achieved from a shared-care approach where different modalities of medicine work together and she strives to work closely with local GPs and other practitioners where possible.
Melissa is dedicating to staying up-to-date with evidence-based, best practice and is therefore, committed to regularly ongoing professional development and mentorship.
Outside of clinical practice, Melissa loves spending time with her family, being active and outside as much as possible, learning and exploring new places through travel.
She is currently living in New York City while her husband is on a diplomatic posting.
Melissa's values: curiosity, integrity, compassion, service, and a good dose of humour

Wellkind founded in 2022
Melissa founded Wellkind with a simple belief: supporting individuals to strengthen their holistic health creates a ripple effect in the communities around them. She is passionate about bringing preventative, integrative, and holistic approaches to healthcare, helping people prioritise wellbeing before concerns become crises. Wellkind believes that when wellbeing is valued, restored, and protected - individuals can engage more fully with life, the people in it, and with what matters most to them.
At Wellkind, Melissa helps clients reconnect with the key foundations of health - nutrition, movement, restorative sleep, mindfulness, mindset, and positive human connection. She believes lasting wellbeing comes from small, consistent actions, guided by flexibility and resilience to navigate life’s challenges and adapt to different seasons and stages.
Her mission is restore and protect health, build resilience, and promote vitality through health education and evidence based, holistic clinical support grounded in lifestyle and nutrition medicine.
Wellkind’s vision is a future where everyone has the agency, support, and strong foundations in holistic health to flourish, engage more fully in life and with what matters, and uplift the wellbeing of the communities they belong to.


Qualifications and Memberships
Awards
Registered Naturopath & Medical Herbalist with Naturopaths and Medical Herbalists of New Zealand (NMHNZ) (Registration number: 205)
Registered Health Coach with Health Coaches Australia and New Zealand Association (HCANZA) (Registration number: 2023495)
Registered Nutritionist with Clinical Nutritionist Association (CNA) (Registration number: 9906413)
Bachelor of Natural Medicine
Bachelor of Science - Psychology (Honours)
Health Coaching Certificate (Prekure) (2023)
Advanced Mental Health Coaching Certificate (Prekure) (2024)
Qualified Yoga Teacher
Level 1 Crossfit Coach
NASM Personal Training Certification
Precision Nutrition Level 1 Certificate with PN specialist certifications in metabolic health, change psychology, and athlete nutrition
Clinical Mentorship with Rachel Arthur Nutrition (2023)
Hormone and Reproductive Health Clinical Mentorship with Rhiannon Hardingham (2025)
Perimenopause & Menopause Management Clinical Mentorship Rhiannon Hardingham (2026)
South Pacific College of Natural Medicine Excellence in Clinical Practice Award 2021 (courtesy of SPCNM Board of Directors)









