Mary Rose
Mary Rose is a Licensed Professional Counselor, somatic therapist, and Vital Mind Reset coach who guides people to feel safe in their bodies, reclaim clarity, and trust themselves again. With two decades of clinical training and a lived history of chronic illness and recovery, she offers an integrative pathway where nervous-system regulation, trauma-informed somatic methods, and lifestyle medicine come together to produce lasting change. Her central conviction is simple: symptoms are messages, not failures – and the work of healing begins when we learn to listen with compassion.
Education and Experience
Mary trained in somatic therapy at Naropa University and holds a master’s degree in counseling with licensure as an LPC. Over twenty years she has worked with individuals, couples, and groups using evidence-informed and experiential modalities. She is certified in the Paradox Process and skilled in parts work, addiction recovery tools, and nutrition-informed interventions. Her clinical practice has been shaped by both formal training and long-term personal recovery from autoimmune disease, disordered eating, and anxiety.
Approach and Philosophy
Her approach is holistic, embodied, and pragmatic: every symptom is an adaptive signal; every pattern is a doorway to wisdom. Mary blends somatic inquiry, nervous-system regulation, parts work, and lifestyle change into a coherent, stepwise process that prioritizes safety and measurable shifts. She emphasizes curiosity, self-compassion, and gentle experimentation – inviting clients to test small practices, track outcomes, and learn what truly supports resilience in daily life.
Personal Journey and Leadership
Mary’s clinical perspective is grounded in personal reclamation. Diagnosed with autoimmune illness at a young age, she experienced depression, disordered eating, and social anxiety before discovering somatic and holistic pathways that restored vitality. Those early struggles taught her to read the body’s signals and to see symptom work as an act of listening rather than fixing. That embodied learning now informs her presence as a clinician – steadfast, empathetic, and oriented toward practical transformation.
Programs and Community
Mary offers individual therapy and the Vital Mind Reset, a 44-day lifestyle protocol that integrates nervous-system practices, nutrition, environmental detox, and mindfulness to catalyze sustained change. She also provides couples work, group offerings, and tailored programs that combine Paradox Process sessions, somatic interventions, and behavioral supports. Clients leave with concrete tools for regulation, clearer priorities, and practices they can carry into relationships, work, and daily rhythms.
Guides, Mentors and Elders
Mary’s work has been influenced by teachers in somatic psychotherapy, contemplative traditions, and integrative health. Ongoing supervision, peer consultation, and study with leaders in trauma-informed care and embodied emotion clearing continue to shape her clinical refinement and ethical commitments.
Life and Commitment
Mary lives from a place of steady practice and curiosity. She invites people who are exhausted by symptom management to try another way – one rooted in compassionate listening, structural support, and embodied skill-building. She offers a committed, nonjudgmental presence for clients ready to move from surviving to thriving, trusting that their bodies already hold the map back to clarity, confidence, and renewed vitality.
