Melanie (Mele) Vallee, PhDc, LMFT, LMHC

Mele Vallee is a mother and a healer whose work is devoted to people, families, systems, animals, and the living earth. She is the President of Eastside Counseling Center, the founder of United Healing Center and Hawai‘i Healing Sanctuary, co-founder of the Brain Enhancement Center, and co-founder of Simplicity Biome. She is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Washington and Hawai‘i, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Master Addiction Counselor in Washington State, a National AAMFT-approved supervisor, and a PhD candidate in Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

With over 30 years of experience, her work has evolved from supporting individual healing to working with couples and family systems, and now toward transforming the broader social and relational systems that shape our collective well-being. Her clinical and community-based work focuses on developmental trauma, attachment, addiction, and integrative approaches to mental and neurological health, including nervous system healing.

Mele’s approach weaves evidence-based psychotherapy, family systems theory, transpersonal and depth psychology, and somatic and neuro-informed practices into an integrative framework for healing. Her work includes trauma integration approaches such as EMDR and EFT tapping, as well as fasting as a supportive modality within a broader continuum of care.

Guided by a heart-centered commitment to relational, cultural, and ecological awareness, her work is grounded in the restoration of right relationship within individuals, families, communities, and the living systems that sustain life.

Her doctoral research explores fasting as part of an integrative approach to treating depression, with a focus on bridging perspectives in ways that honor relational accountability, cultural context, and diverse ways of knowing.

Her path is shaped by both professional training and lived experience, including the loss of her son in 2019. This experience continues to deepen her commitment to creating compassionate, ethical, and transformative pathways for healing for future generations.

At Hawai‘i Healing Sanctuary, Mele serves as steward, clinician, and guide, holding spaces where individuals and families can slow down, reconnect, and restore balance in relationship with themselves, each other, and the living world.