Melissa was a GP for over 20 years and has been working in the ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia service at the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine since 2021. She worked for the Covid Clinical Assessment Service as a GP and Clinical Auditor until it closed in 2021 and has lived with Long Covid since 2020. Melissa is a trained yoga teacher and a yoga therapy teacher trainer with Yogacampus in London.