Ms. Reeves is the founder of Cove Mountain Counseling, an association of independent practitioners that offers counseling, coaching and consulting in Maryville, Tennessee. She is active with the Blount County Chamber of Commerce, where she just completed two terms on the Board of Directors and helped start a Women in Business Focus Group. She led that group to offer the Chamber’s first Career Development Day for economically disadvantaged women in the fall of 2002.

In addition to the Chamber, Ms. Reeves serves on the Board of the Tennessee Society for Clinical Social Work and the Provider Advisory Board for Preferred Health Partnership, Inc. In the past, she’s also been active on the boards of the Blount County Community Mediation Center and the Community Health Initiative’s Mental Health Action Team.

In recent years, Ms. Reeves has become increasingly active in community organizations and initiatives that seek to improve the economic status of women and girls in Tennessee. She is the President of the Maryville Chapter of the American Association of University Women. Through AAUW, she chaired Tennessee’s first Sister to Sister Summit in 2001, an event focused on empowering adolescent girls that has since been repeated annually with great success. Those Summits have now reached almost 300 girls across all 3 Blount County school systems. In the summer of 2003, she was invited to present a paper about that work at the Seventh International Women’s Policy Research Conference in Washington, D.C.

She also represents the East Tennessee Development District as a member of the Tennessee Economic Council on Women in Nashville, appointed to a six-year term by the Speakers of the House and Senate. The Council seeks to gather information on economic issues affecting women and girls across Tennessee, to raise public awareness of the economic cost of those issues, to influence policy, and to work with public/private partnerships to effect change.

Ms. Reeves is the author of the booklet, How to Love an Adolescent: 101 Tips for Parents of Teens. In addition to her work for women and girls, she’s a sought after public speaker and workshop leader on issues impacting teens and their families. She’s an East Tennessee native with mountains in her blood. She lives in Maryville with her terrific other half, 2 kids, and a collie.