Melodie Simmons, MS, LPC, CEDS-S, ACHE (she/her) is licensed in Arizona as a Professional Counselor, registered supervisor on the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist-Supervisor, and a member of the esteemed American College of Healthcare Executives. She will receive her Doctorate in Healthcare Administration in May 2023. Melodie is the 2023-2025 President of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (iaedp) Phoenix Chapter and was the Social- Media/Marketing chair from 2021-2022. She is an advisor on the National iaedp committee for Curriculum Development and a member of the AAEDP-BIPOC subcommittee.
Melodie has worked in multiple capacities in behavioral health since 2008 and in leadership since 2013. She began her career in 2008 as an intensive in-home therapist serving the marginalized, minority Medicaid communities in rural Mississippi and Tennessee. After obtaining her Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling from Mississippi College in 2010, Melodie witnessed the disparities between therapy and medication management. She continued her education at Vanderbilt University in an advanced standing Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program. While in Nashville, TN, she was recruited by a SAG-AFTRA model and talent agency, leaving minimal opportunity for studies and revealing the world of body image concerns and eating disorders; academics were put on pause. After several years of runway and high fashion work, Melodie sought the need for a focus on the treatment of eating disorders and moved from Tennessee to Arizona. Melodie served as the Clinical Director for a premiere eating disorder residential treatment facility and noticed the need for more BIPOC therapists in eating disorders. Following her passion, she opened up a private practice specializing in treating eating disorders. After a few years of owning and operating a successful private practice, Melodie was gifted the opportunity to open RevealED, an Eating Disorder Residential Treatment Facility at Soul Surgery in North Scottsdale, Arizona. RevealED is committed to personalized services and a treatment philosophy and framework that integrates holistic wellness with evidenced-based therapeutic modalities, resulting in the highest quality and standards of care. Melodie was born and raised in Alaska and completed her Bachelor of Science in Psychology minor in Philosophy from the University of Alaska - Fairbanks. As an undergraduate, she was a Division II Men and Women’s Basketball Cheerleader. Melodie currently resides in North Phoenix, Arizona. She is a wife of a retired United States Army combat veteran who completed several tours during OIF/OEF and a mother of 3 sons; the youngest are fraternal twins. Melodie is an Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. member living by the founder’s mission of “…Service to All Mankind.” Let’s get to work. Eating disorders. Recovery. Life. RevealED. Contact: Email: [email protected] |