Michelle Luchau-Rebora, 32, was arrested this week after being accused of having a sexual relationship with a patient under her care. The patient was identified in court documents as a 42-year-old man referred to as JG.
JG was a patient and resident at New Hope CORPS in Homestead, Florida. The facility is located about 40 miles south of central Miami.
According to the allegations, Luchau-Rebora and JG became involved while she was working with him as a therapist intern.
That is certainly one way to make a therapy schedule memorable.
Therapy is supposed to involve boundaries, but according to the allegations in this case, those boundaries were crossed.
The 32-year-old woman worked as a mental health therapist intern at the facility and conducted therapy sessions with the 42-year-old man, the documents state.
But during those sessions, the therapist and patient would allegedly have sex, which is a crime under Florida law.
Authorities also claimed that Luchau-Rebora ‘facilitated alibis on his behalf, which allowed him authorization to leave the restricted facility and engage in sexual intercourse on multiple occasions.’
The patient and therapist allegedly had sex at her home, at her mother’s home in Key Biscayne and at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Sheriff’s deputies claimed that Luchau-Rebora ‘demanded that he not tell anyone about their relationship because it will affect her ability to work as a therapist,’ per WPLG.
Luchau-Rebora now finds herself facing the consequences of an alleged relationship that reportedly developed with someone she was supposed to be helping professionally.
The illegal romantic relationship allegedly took place from June 2025 until September of that year.
The 42-year-old man allegedly reported the relationship to New Hope CORPS after Luchau-Rebora broke things off, and the facility then contacted police.
The therapist intern was fired, and she was charged with sexual misconduct by a psychotherapist, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison under Florida law.
Luchau-Rebora turned herself in to the Homestead Police Department on Wednesday. The department investigated her case with help from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, WPLG reported.
She was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Wednesday morning on a $5,000 bond, but she posted bail and was released that evening. She has been ordered to have no contact with her alleged victim.
Imagine walking into therapy expecting to talk about life, recovery and personal challenges, then the therapist allegedly becomes the headline in your next chapter. Not exactly what anyone puts on a treatment plan.
On the way out of the jail, a WPLG reporter intercepted Luchau-Rebora and asked her on camera: ‘Did you have sex with your patients?’
‘I am not gonna comment on anything,’ the former therapist intern replied. ‘You can ask my lawyer.’
When the reporter kept following her, she said: ‘Can you leave me alone, please? This is kind of weird. I really don’t want to add anything right now.’
There is a simple lesson here: a therapy session should involve therapy.
If the conversation starts looking like a relationship drama, something has seriously gone off script.
