PhDc, LMFT, LMHC

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 a 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 right relationship—within families, communities, and the living systems that hold us.

Clinical Focus Areas

Mele brings extensive experience supporting:

• Families and couples navigating trauma, addiction, loss, and relational rupture
• High-risk youth and complex family systems
• Chemical dependency and recovery
• Nervous system regulation, attachment, and trauma-informed care

Therapeutic Approach & Training

Her approach weaves evidence-based psychotherapy with family systems theory, somatic and neuro-informed practices, and ethically held ceremonial and ancestral wisdom. She is trained in modalities including:

• EMDR
• Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT Tapping)
• Matrix Reimprinting
• Neurofeedback
• Psychedelic-assisted therapy
• Family systems–based immersion work
• Spiritual Lineage & Cultural Care

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.

Lived Experience

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.

Stewardship

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.