Melissa Grove, MS, LPC, has served as executive director of Legacy Counseling Center since 1999. Previously she had developed Legacy's Founders Cottage, a seven-bedroom home facility designed for terminally ill AIDS patients. A licensed therapist, Grove served as the Gero-Psychiatric Director for ADAPT of Texas, managing a 60 bed in-patient facility. Other experience include working with Schizophrenia, emotionally disturbed children, Mescalero Indians with alcohol issues, terminally ill elderly, and has done research on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, computerized DSM and attachment theory. She has been honored as Grand Marshall of the Alan Ross Freedom parade and her organization has received the Outstanding HIV/AIDS Organizational Achievement award.