Founder & Vision Holder

Mele Vallee is the founder of United Healing Center and Hawai‘i Healing Sanctuary. She is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, AAMFT-approved national supervisor, and PhD candidate in Transformative and Consciousness Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

With over 30 years of experience in psychotherapy, addiction recovery, family systems, and integrative mental health, Mele’s work centers on intergenerational healing and the restoration of relationship — within families, communities, and the living systems that hold us.

Her clinical background includes extensive work with:

• Families and couples navigating trauma, addiction, loss, and relational rupture

• High-risk youth and family systems

• Chemical dependency and recovery

• Nervous system regulation, attachment, and trauma-informed care

Mele’s approach weaves evidence-based psychotherapy, family systems theory, somatic and neuro-informed practices, and ethically held ceremonial and ancestral wisdom. She is trained in modalities including EMDR, EFT, DBT, ACT, neurofeedback, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and family systems–based immersion work.

In addition to her clinical work, Mele is an ordained medicine woman and long-time spiritual guide. She carries this role with humility, consent, and deep respect for cultural boundaries. Her work in Hawai‘i is guided by a commitment to right relationship with the ʻāina and its people, and to uplifting sovereignty, cultural continuity, and regenerative community care.

Mele’s path has been profoundly shaped by lived experience. In 2019, she lost her son to an accidental overdose — a loss that deepened her commitment to creating safer, more compassionate pathways for healing for future generations.

At Hawai‘i Healing Sanctuary, Mele serves as steward, clinician, and guide — holding spaces that are structured, ethical, and deeply human, where families can slow down, reconnect, and remember how to be together.