Anthony J. Mele, Psy.D.

Dr. Anthony Mele, a licensed psychologist, brings almost twenty-five years of clinical expertise and executive leadership on both the provider and payer sides of behavioral healthcare. His wide range of clinical expertise includes the assessment and treatment of co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders in adolescents and adults. Dr. Mele is a frequent presenter on the co-occurrence of Borderline Personality Disorder and Substance Use Disorder and the integration of neuroplasticity and traditional psychotherapy to manage chronic behavioral health conditions. Dr. Mele has extensive experience creating and leading start-up behavioral health organizations ranging from Medicare-certified networks to e-therapy companies and behavioral health managed care companies. Dr. Mele’s executive leadership experience in managed behavioral and physical healthcare includes serving as the founding Chief Clinical Officer of a national behavioral health managed care organization and as the national director of Wellness and Preventive Health for the nation’s largest health insurance managed care organization. In these positions, Dr. Mele integrated e-therapy and disease management / wellness initiatives. Prior to joining Sovereign Health, Dr. Mele established a behavioral health company that grew into a network of outpatient geriatric behavioral health services and served as the company’s founding Executive Director. As the Executive Director, Dr. Mele led its expansion into a network serving patients across the lifespan in over 40 locations. As Chief Clinical Officer for Sovereign Health, Dr. Mele provides Clinical and Executive leadership to a national network of behavioral health facilities who are transforming how behavioral health is conceputalized and treated through a state of the art behavioral health network serving hundreds of patients across the United States. Sovereign Health, a national behavioral healthcare system accredited by the Joint Commission, believes that the brain’s ability to heal itself offers the best hope for a future free from addiction. Our clinical outcomes place us among the highest performing similarly accredited organizations. We offer a wide continuum of treatment levels, each of which is based on integration of developmental psychology, neuroplasticity, and neurobiology. We integrate cutting-edge research in brain wellness and remediation with traditional psychotherapy techniques. Sovereign serves a wide range of clinical conditions. We are separately licensed as a mental health organization in addition to providing dual diagnosis treatment. We serve individuals with eating disorders, elevated emotional dysregulation, and those in need of recovery from pain medication addiction. We provide special gender-specific treatment to men and women between the ages of 40 and 65. Our adolescent treatment centers serve boys and girls between the ages of 13 and 17 who have primary mental health or dual diagnosis conditions. We are particularly proud of our adolescent eating disorder program and our transgender/gender diversity program. While many programs offer Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and other similar cognitively-based interventions, Sovereign’s treatment approach deconstructs these techniques in order to align the patient’s cognitive capacity with the most efficacious application of cognitive interventions.