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. 
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Tabetha Smith, FNP-C

In 1992, Tabetha graduated from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. (Prior to that, she received a Bachelor of Science in Public Health with a Specialty in Health Behavior and Health Education from the School of Public Health at UNC Chapel Hill.)

She then graduated from the UNC School of Nursing at Chapel Hill in 1997 with her Master of Science in Nursing and started her career as a Nurse Practitioner.

Tabetha is an ANCC Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner and a top Legacy BioTE Bio-Identical Hormone Pellet Provider.  She was also the first hormone pellet implant provider in the Wilmington area.

Tabetha has specialized in bio-identical hormone therapy her entire career and has specialized in functional medicine since 2005.

Tabetha has been trained in bio-identical hormone therapy by BioTE, Professional Compounding Centers of America (PCCA), Apex Energetics, ZRT Labs, and The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) just to name a few.

She has been a member of the North Carolina Integrative Medical Society as well as A4M for over 15 years.
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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 years of her practice, she has focused on wellness and prevention, nutrition, weight loss, gastrointestinal healing, and hormone balance, and has received extensive continuing education in the areas in which she specializes.

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.

Even after 30 years as a nurse practitioner, she believes that a health care provider can never know it all and continues to listen to patients’ perceptions of their own health and actively pursues more formalized training on an on-going basis.
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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 also had the privilege of being inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. 

While in college, she had the distinct pleasure of being a Student Assistant at the UNMC College of Nursing Learning Center, as well as a Student Tutor for members of the University of Nebraska football team. (Go Big Red!) 

She received the honor of being Care Manager of the Month twice 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.

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 two successful adult 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, Medical Weight Loss, and Aesthetics at Restore Health & Wellness.

She became a Certified BioTE Practitioner in 2018, and works under the supervision of Tabetha Smith, FNP.

​She is also certified in IV Nutrient Therapy as well as Heavy Metal Toxicology/Chelation Therapy from International IV Nutritional Therapy Global Physician Education.
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​We invite you to book an appointment now by calling  at
(910) 763-1960, 
and going to our Patient Portal page to complete and submit the New Patient Packet & Scheduling Form. We look forward to a long and healthy partnership with you! 
​Enjoy your life starting today!