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Melissa Dickinson

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Therapist, Founder & Executive Director of GA EDS & Hypermobility Network, CFO of Wellspring Nonprofit Corporation

Melissa Dickinson, MS, LPC
(she, hers)

Licensed Professional Counselor @Wellspring Counseling Coaching & Transitions Center

Founder and Executive Director @Georgia Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes & Hypermobility Network

Co-founder and CFO @Wellspring Nonprofit Corporation

Melissa is a Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in neurodiversity, gender affirmation, trauma and chronic illness.

She helped create the Wellspring Counseling, Coaching & Transitions Center in Atlanta which is a collection of highly skilled and talented professional counselors, marriage and sex therapists and change makers.

Melissa is the founder and executive director of the Georgia Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes & Hypermobility Network serving over 1,500 local members with free services including montly support groups, education and a bridge to the medical professionals who care for GA EDSers.

In December 2022 she was featured in a CNN International report on living with EDS.

She is also the founder of the Wellspring Corporation Nonprofit which has a dream of creating an EDS Center of Care in Georgia. She is a lifelong nerd and enjoys reading medical journals for fun and challenging herself to learn something new. She is married and has two adorable fur children.

2972 Memorial Drive SE, Atlanta, Georgia 30030 +1-706-508-4993 and 404-969-5139

www.MelissaDickinson.com MelissaDickinsonLPC@gmail.com

April 17, 2025

Top Therapists Share Tips for Surviving EDS (Ep 141)

What happens when illness hijacks your love story? In this raw and revealing episode, Dr. Linda Bluestein sits down with therapists and real-life couple Melissa Dickinson and Tom Query, who know firsthand how Ehlers-Danlos syndrome can test—and transform—a relationship. From secret diagnoses to …