Jodi (Sumpter) Peavy is a LISW-CP in South Carolina and an LCSW in North Carolina. She received her master's degree in clinical social work from Boston University School of Social Work and her bachelor's degree in social work from Bridgewater State University .  Jodi's early work focused on helping adolescents in  group homes both private and non-profit , juvenile outreach, and as assistant youth commissioner with "at risk" youth and their families in the greater Boston and surrounding suburban area.  She worked at a residential school for juvenile sex offenders and for the Veteran's Affairs at the domiciliary for dual diagnosed homeless veterans as well as several years doing home based mental health counseling before moving to South Carolina 22 years ago.  In South Carolina she has worked in substance abuse, mental health crisis, school-based services and assisted in creating a program to put mental health in a primary care setting at a Federally Qualified Health Center.  In 2008 she began working as a medical social worker for a national home health agency covering part of Horry and Marion and Dillon Counties where she continues to work today. Jodi has also worked as a hospice social worker and as a contracted private practice therapist doing both in office and telehealth counseling. It has been her career dream to do private practice therapy for her own practice and with the creation of telehealth she is able to finally embark on that journey. Jodi has 2 adult children, the eldest of whom, Sophie Sumpter, is also a social worker currently working for the Department of Mental Health in Lexington, SC and working towards independent licensure. She hopes to join her mom as co-owner of M.E.T. and provide hybrid telehealth as well as office based counseling in the near future. Her middle child, Kohle, lives locally with his family  and is expecting her 2nd grandchild in May and her youngest is a 6th grader who wants to become a medical malpractice attorney.