Meet Our Staff
Our caring and well-trained staff here at Restore Health & Wellness will guide you through all of your concerns, and help you to the best of their ability to optimize your health.
Tabetha Smith: FNP-C
Tabetha L. Smith is a certified Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) who graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1997. She has a Master of Science degree in Nursing and is licensed to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina as a FNP. She is board certified by the American Nurse Credentialing Center and has a certification specialty as a Menopause Clinician with The National Certification Corporation. Women's health has always been of special interest to Ms. Smith, but she also has experience in family practice, pediatrics, health education, and chronic disease management. Over the most recent years of her practice, she has focused on wellness and prevention, nutrition, weight loss, gastrointestinal healing, and hormone balance. She has received extensive continuing education in the areas in which she specializes. Since 2005, the majority of her practice has been related to treatment with Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy. Ms. Smith also has a degree in health education and believes that educating people about their own health and how to improve that health is one of the best ways that she can help her patients. She believes that a health care provider can never know it all and continues to listen to patients’ perceptions of their own health and pursue more formalized training.
Tabetha L. Smith is a certified Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) who graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1997. She has a Master of Science degree in Nursing and is licensed to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina as a FNP. She is board certified by the American Nurse Credentialing Center and has a certification specialty as a Menopause Clinician with The National Certification Corporation. Women's health has always been of special interest to Ms. Smith, but she also has experience in family practice, pediatrics, health education, and chronic disease management. Over the most recent years of her practice, she has focused on wellness and prevention, nutrition, weight loss, gastrointestinal healing, and hormone balance. She has received extensive continuing education in the areas in which she specializes. Since 2005, the majority of her practice has been related to treatment with Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy. Ms. Smith also has a degree in health education and believes that educating people about their own health and how to improve that health is one of the best ways that she can help her patients. She believes that a health care provider can never know it all and continues to listen to patients’ perceptions of their own health and pursue more formalized training.
Brittany McNeil, MSN, FNP-C
Brittany McNeil is a certified Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) who graduated from South University. She has a Master of Science degree in Nursing and is licensed to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina as an FNP. She is board certified by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Brittany moved to Wilmington in 2007 and instantly felt at home. She is married to Derrick and has two beautiful girls, Harper and Avery, and 4 fur babies. Her nursing career has spanned multiple hospitals across different settings including ER, Surgical, Neurological, with her most loved being Cardiac Care. It was an absolute honor to care for her patient’s during the times when they needed it the most, but she felt like health care providers were missing a piece to the puzzle. She believed there had to be more to overall health than the reactive medicine she had grown accustomed to. That is when she decided to pursue her ultimate goal of becoming an FNP, desiring to partner with her patients in developing a healthy lifestyle, build a strong foundation of health, and ultimately focus on prevention of disease. In her last semester of graduate school, she was introduced to Tabetha and had the pleasure of training directly under her to learn more about Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy and Functional Medicine. Brittany finally found the "missing piece to the puzzle" she was searching for. She is excited and honored to be joining Tabetha and the staff at Restore Health and Wellness Center and looks forward to focusing on patients' overall wellness, nutrition, prevention of disease, and hormone balance.
o Karla Vavra Melcher: RN, BSN
Karla received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing with High Distinction from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1996 and was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She received the honor of being Care Manager of the Month twice in two years during her employment with the Humana at Home Program during her three-year tenure. In the early years of her nursing career, she worked in geriatrics and was intrigued by the aging & disease process and began to study about wellness & disease prevention. Karla struggled with headaches from the time she was a child, and as she learned more about health issues and holistic health care, she finally discovered with the help of an integrative clinical nutritionist that she was sensitive to gluten as well as had several issues requiring the needed detoxing of her body. Fifteen years later, she enjoys assisting others to learn what we put into our bodies matters, and that with the right resources, our bodies can journey towards healing. Karla enjoys the entire age spectrum, from infants to the elderly. She believes every stage of life is a gift, to be lived well & to the fullest, and is passionate about assisting others to do the same. She is the proud mother & former homeschool teacher to her children, Abbey & Tyson. She also trained to be a doula to assist parents in healthy pregnancies, labor & deliveries as well as assisting families who have difficult diagnosis & outcomes. Karla performs IV Infusion Therapy, EPAT/Acoustic Wave Therapy, as well as BioTE Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy at Restore Health & Wellness. She became a Certified BioTE Practitioner in 2018, and works under the supervision of Tabetha Smith, FNP-C. She is also certified in Heavy Metal Toxicolgy/Chelation Therapy from International IV Nutritional Therapy Global Physician Education.
Karla received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing with High Distinction from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1996 and was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She received the honor of being Care Manager of the Month twice in two years during her employment with the Humana at Home Program during her three-year tenure. In the early years of her nursing career, she worked in geriatrics and was intrigued by the aging & disease process and began to study about wellness & disease prevention. Karla struggled with headaches from the time she was a child, and as she learned more about health issues and holistic health care, she finally discovered with the help of an integrative clinical nutritionist that she was sensitive to gluten as well as had several issues requiring the needed detoxing of her body. Fifteen years later, she enjoys assisting others to learn what we put into our bodies matters, and that with the right resources, our bodies can journey towards healing. Karla enjoys the entire age spectrum, from infants to the elderly. She believes every stage of life is a gift, to be lived well & to the fullest, and is passionate about assisting others to do the same. She is the proud mother & former homeschool teacher to her children, Abbey & Tyson. She also trained to be a doula to assist parents in healthy pregnancies, labor & deliveries as well as assisting families who have difficult diagnosis & outcomes. Karla performs IV Infusion Therapy, EPAT/Acoustic Wave Therapy, as well as BioTE Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy at Restore Health & Wellness. She became a Certified BioTE Practitioner in 2018, and works under the supervision of Tabetha Smith, FNP-C. She is also certified in Heavy Metal Toxicolgy/Chelation Therapy from International IV Nutritional Therapy Global Physician Education.
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We look forward to a long and healthy partnership with you! Enjoy your life starting today!
and going to our Patient Portal page to complete & submit the New Patient Packet & Scheduling Form.
We look forward to a long and healthy partnership with you! Enjoy your life starting today!
