Michellene Burke
Michellene Burke
CPC, HCDC, PPNE, DSTP, NATC, AASECT
Gender
Female
Ethnicity/Nationality
Filipino-American
Mixed
Immigrant
Language / Dialect
Bikolano/Bicolano
Ilonggo / Hiligayon
Tagalog
community
12-Step Friendly
Body Positivity / Health at Every Size
LGBTQIAA+ / Queer Allied
Neurodivergent Friendly
Racial Justice Allied
Sex Positive / Kink Friendly
Sex Worker Positive
Transgender Competent, Veterans
Familiarity with faith
Protestant
Wicca / Paganism
Interfaith
Multifaith
Catholicism
Jewish
Agnostic
Multi-Faith
Interfaith
Focus
Coparenting
Divorce
Domestic Violence or Intimate Partner Violence
Infidelity or Affairs
Men's Issues
Pregnancy
Prenatal
Antepartum
Postpartum
Relationship Issues
Marriage Issues
Sexual Addiction or Sexual Concerns
Sexuality or Sexual Identity
Toxic Masculinity
Treatment
Couples Counseling
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Family Systems Therapy
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT)
Relational Therapy
Sex Therapy
Minwalla Model DST
Attached-Based Healing
Couples Intensives/Workshops
Betrayal Trauma Groups
MODALITY
Family
Individual
Relationships (Couples & Non-Monogamous)
Group
About
You carry the weight of generations—the silence around shame, the pressure to keep family intact. Whether you’re the betrayed partner, one in recovery, the couple rebuilding, or family navigating generational trauma, I see you.
As a relational and betrayal trauma clinician with 18+ years, I help Filipino, Filipino-American, mixed-faith, mixed-race, and first-generation immigrant individuals, couples, and families heal from betrayal trauma, infidelity, porn addiction, sex addiction, and deceptive sexuality. I understand hiya—not just as cultural propriety, but as shame carried across generations. The shame of his choices, her boundaries, divorce, your truth. I help you untangle what hiya means for healing versus what it costs.
I get Catholic guilt that says suffering is holy. Protestant churches preaching submission. Mixed-faith marriages where religion becomes control. Military—moving to the US, isolation, affairs. Regional differences: NorCal Filipinos, SoCal identities, East Coast/Virginia communities, Northeast upbringings, Canadian Filipinos managing diaspora identity, etc.
APA-trained in the Minwalla Model for deceptive sexuality trauma, AASECT-cert in porn/sex addiction recovery. I specialize in therapeutic disclosures, polygraph integration, integrity abuse. I guide betrayed partners, individuals in recovery, couples seeking repair, and families through Filipino cultural challenges—where in-laws become defense teams, pain is dismissed as “drama,” pakikisama and utang na loob enforce compliance, truth feels like betrayal.
Judicially certified mediator & recommending mediator in California, supporting high-conflict divorce, co-parenting, international custody, family court prep. I work with families processing cheating/infidelity ongoing addiction/co-addictions, multi-generational families healing. Through IFS, somatic therapy, culturally grounded healing, I help you honor culture while releasing shame. You deserve a professional who gets it all. That’s me.
Qualifications
Judicially Trained Mediator:
Virginia Courts (Juvenile & Domestic Relations, Circuit Family Law), Recommending Mediator - California (Family Law/Domestic Violence), AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists), DSTP (Deceptive Sexuality Trauma Professional - Institute for Sexual Health, Dr. Omar Minwalla) PPNE (Prenatal/Postnatal Educator - APPPAH), NATC (Narcissistic Abuse Treatment Recovery Clinician), HCDC (High-Conflict Divorce Coach), CPC (Certified Professional Coach)
Years in Practice: 11
Education:
BA, MA - Psychology & Women's Studies, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, University of Oklahoma, Additional Training: University of Arizona College of Medicine (Prenatal/Postnatal Psychology), APA Forensic Psychology Applications
Location
Norfolk, VA
San Diego, CA
Online / remote services available
Pricing
$215—235 per session
Sliding Scale and Package Rates
accepted insurance
Out of Network
