Your registered Osteopath and Health Coach with twenty years experience.
Meet Melanie
In the clinic
Melanie provides whole-person care, taking the time to understand your needs and concerns. Osteopathy is safe and suitable for people of all ages, and Melanie has a particular interest in supporting expecting and post-partum mothers, addressing work-related postural pain, managing sports injuries, and treating head, neck and TMJ disorders.
Each consultation includes a thorough history, assessment, tailored management plan, hands-on treatment and practical lifestyle advice. Treatment may include soft tissue massage, mobilisation, manipulation, other gentle techniques and, where appropriate, dry needling.
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In the wider health community
Melanie’s work as a health management consultant and primary health coordinator in the Port Macquarie–Hastings region has given her strong networks and a passion for improving integration across the health system. She has served on several osteopathic regulatory bodies and not-for-profit boards, and has worked with First Nations communities in East Arnhem Land and Cairns supporting diet and lifestyle experiential health programs.
Committed to helping individuals, communities and organisations thrive, Melanie continuously engages with the latest health trends and promotes practical, evidence-based strategies alongside time-tested approaches. She is dedicated to empowering others to live healthy, purposeful lives.
Prior to moving to Port Macquarie, she co-founded and managed a large multidisciplinary health clinic on Sydney’s Northern Beaches for a decade.
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Inspiring, energetic, passionate, fun loving, warm-hearted and committed!
Melanie now lives in the picturesque Port Macquarie region on the Mid North Coast with her husband and three active children. In her spare time, you will find her on the beach with her family, in the veggie patch, playing pickleball or preparing a nourishing meal for family & friends.
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“ My fullfilment comes from seeing people overcome injuries, manage their chronic pain, feel empowered through education, and make healthy lifestyle changes.”
What is The Health Current?
The Health Current is a fresh approach to personalised health care on the Mid North Coast—combining osteopathic services, health coaching and health management consulting to support whole-person wellbeing.
Drawing on extensive experience in the osteopathic profession and in health consulting roles, Melanie launched The Health Current to provide high-quality, personalised osteopathic care to residents of Lake Cathie, Bonny Hills, Port Macquarie and surrounding areas. Her approach ensures clients receive individualised treatment from a health professional they know, like and trust.
With strong interests in lifestyle medicine, health coaching, behavioural change and wellbeing at work, Melanie also recognised the need for tailored health management consulting and corporate health services, both locally and beyond. The Health Current brings these offerings together to empower individuals, workplaces and communities to thrive.
Speaking, training and workshops tailored to you.
Community Focused.
Melanie has worked on a range of health projects in the Port Macquarie–Hastings region through her roles as a health management consultant and primary health coordinator with Healthy North Coast. She has served in multiple regulatory roles within the osteopathic profession and is currently a clinical advisor for AHPRA.
Motivated to drive improvement and meaningful change in the health care system, Melanie is available for health management consulting and short-term health project support.
Passionate about supporting healthy, purposeful communities, Melanie is available to speak at community events, schools, universities with sessions delivered either in person or online.
Workplace Focused.
Melanie is available to support organisations through corporate health consulting, team-building workshops, workplace ergonomic assessments and tailored wellbeing events. Her approach combines evidence-based strategies with practical, engaging delivery to help teams thrive.
Workshops and seminars can be fully customised to meet your organisation’s needs and can be delivered either in person or online.
Melanie has worked with a diverse range of clients, including Paramount Pictures, McCrindle Research, C3 Ryde, Anglicare, WIDAC, Reach Community Initiatives and Clorox.
1:1 Focused.
Health Coaching is a transformative, personalised process that supports you in changing the trajectory of your health journey. It keeps you in the driver’s seat. Together, we identify what you want to achieve, why it matters, what may be holding you back, and then create a step-by-step, easy-to-follow Health Plan to help you reach your health and wellness goals.
We also explore your goals in the context of your whole life—optimising your work performance, family life and other areas that are important to you.
If you want to feel more energetic, make sustainable changes to your eating habits, become more active or take greater control of a health condition, Health and Wellness Coaching may be the right next step for you.
Past Clients
Nicole W, IRT Group
“Melanie was so professional and a delight to work with.”
Melanie ran a full day session with our interns on Creating Healthy Lifestyle Habits. Mel included a range of topics including Lifestyle Factors, Goals & Habits, helping the audience create a health plan and teaching them how to implement new healthy habits. Melanie was so professional and a delight to work with. Her sessions were not only informative but also very practical & engaging.