Melanie Woodfield
Member
Dr Melanie Woodfield is a Clinical Psychologist, who has worked within community-based child and adolescent mental health services for the past 20 years in a variety of roles. With the support of the Health Research Council’s Foxley Fellowship (2018-20), Clinical Research Training Fellowship (2020-24) and Clinical Practitioner Research Fellowship (2025-2030) her research explores the real-world implementation of evidence-based parenting interventions.
Melanie continues to work for Te Whatu Ora providing clinical care within child mental health services and in supervision roles. She is a Fellow of the NZ College of Clinical Psychologists, and a board member of the Parenting Place. She delivers regular seminars for community groups, and contributes to media conversations around parenting and child wellbeing.