The Rose Intensive
You've been swimming in it long enough.
There's a way through it — made for exactly how you're wired.
The Rose Intensive is personalized 1:1 coaching and somatic movement for when life changes stir up all you've had to carry — and you're ready to reclaim your full self, build more supportive connections, and finally move in this world as who you're here to be.
You Feel like you're in a quagmire and can't find the exit.
And You've carried this long enough to know —
this isn't something you can think your way out of.
Maybe a relationship is changing, or has ended.
Maybe it's a geographic move, a career shift, or complex grief and loss.
Maybe it's your sensuality, your sexuality, or a part of yourself that's been suppressed for so long you've forgotten it's there, or an intimacy issue that's never had a safe space to breathe.
Maybe your safety — including emotional — has been compromised or violated, and you’ve lost how to trust yourself.
Maybe you can't pinpoint it or it's a combination of factors — but the ground beneath a life you built is shifting.
A situation you didn't see coming has left you somewhere between disbelief and exhaustion, and you're not entirely sure how to find your footing.
You're a creative, a dreamer, a fighter — someone who shows up fully for others, who cares deeply, who has worked on themselves. And still, something keeps not shifting the way you need it to.
What often goes unaddressed is that this moment — as destabilizing as it is — didn't arrive in a vacuum.
It landed on top of things that were already there. Old patterns that got quiet for a while. Parts of yourself that learned to manage, adapt, and keep moving long before this particular thing happened. The current weight and the older weight have a way of becoming one thing.
The cost of carrying all the layers you didn’t ask for has a way of spreading into everything.
Your confidence is undermined.
The dreams and creative projects you care about keep getting pushed to later.
Your relationship with your body, your sensuality, or your sexuality feels distant, complicated, or simply shut down.
Important decisions pile up — not because you lack the wisdom, but because you're carrying too much to access it.
And still, somehow, you keep showing up for everyone else.
The biggest lie you might be telling yourself right now is that you're okay. That it's not that bad. That you can manage this the way you've managed everything else.
But your body knows otherwise.
Some things need more than words to move.
They need a different kind of attention — one that meets you in the body, in the nervous system, in the places where the real work lives.
Your sleep is disrupted — racing thoughts, restless nights, the kind of tired that doesn't lift. Your stomach ties in knots. Anxiety has taken up residence somewhere in your chest with nowhere to go.
The joy and creativity that used to feel like yours — the aliveness you knew yourself to have — keeps feeling further away.
The decisions you need to make feel ever weightier. And underneath it all — a quiet loneliness that you might not even have named yet. Even when you're not alone.
You've tried things. Real things. Things that have helped — to a point. Therapy, books, programs, pushing through, trying again. And you're still here, in some version of this.
That's not a reflection of how hard you've tried. It's a reflection of where what you're carrying actually lives — in places that insight alone doesn't reach. Or perhaps this particular thing has never had a space at all. Either way, something is asking for a different kind of tending.
What if the way forward is actually built for how you're wired — not despite it?
“Sometimes it’s not just the talking we need — it’s the feeling, the expression, and actually moving through what you’re carrying. This work is thoughtful, giving you the opportunity to do something with those feelings — to honor them, feel them, and release what no longer belongs in your life. I’m leaving with clarity, self-forgiveness, and a sense of safety I didn’t expect to find so quickly.”
Built for what you're carrying right now — and the life that's waiting on the other side.
The Rose Intensive is the kind of adaptive, whole-human support that truly sees you — science and soul, woven together — and walks alongside you until you meet your goals. It's a personalized 1:1 coaching experience built on the Rose Model framework, a living roadmap for healing and connection with yourself first, and from there, with others and the life you're building.
“My confidence has increased by 1000%. Lori truly has a heart of gold, and anyone who is willing to give themselves a chance in whatever way they need it needs to speak to her.”
From the moment we begin, we forge a partnership with a focus entirely on you — your goals, your unique history, your nervous system, and where you want to go. The support doesn't begin and end at the session. It travels with you between sessions, through the hard moments and the breakthroughs, until what once felt out of reach starts to feel like solid ground.
Named for seven matriarchal ancestors who survived and persevered against extraordinary odds, the Rose Model is a nature-based metaphor for rooting, unfolding, and finding connection in a supportive ecosystem we build together. The spirit of survival and perseverance lives in you, too.
This work helps you resurrect the strengths, wisdom, and aliveness that went quiet —
and have been waiting beneath everything you didn't ask for but have had to carry.
The Rose Model moves through three phases — not as a linear checklist, but as a living process grounded in neuroscience, trauma-informed research, and over a decade of practice:
Heal — begins with the soil — the patterns, conditioning, and trauma you didn't ask for — and works to help you access the core human needs of safety, dignity, and belonging from the inside out. We’ll tend to what happened in a way that honors, discovers, and reclaims your whole self. And you’ll learn to recognize the earliest signs of healthy vs. unhealthy relationship patterns in others.
Empower — building the skills and self-knowledge that become the foundation for every choice you make. Healthy communication, even in hard conversations. Self-trust. Discernment. Boundaries that come from clarity rather than fear. The deep re-parenting work that helps you give yourself what you needed and didn't always receive.
Ignite — where the most of who you are gets to come through — in your relationships, your work, your creativity, and your dreams. . Where you stop managing life and start living it. Where parts of you that may have gone underground or been suppressed get to be part of who you are again, not something to manage or hide. And where you develop such a clear, embodied sense of who you are and what you deserve that harmful dynamics — including internal ones — lose their hold, and supportive ones become not just possible, but natural.
This isn't just about getting through what you're facing. It's about building the skills and footing to step into the life that's been waiting on the other side of this.
“Sessions with Lori helped me to release the heaviness of grief I have been carrying for years. That was my intention, and it provided it for me in ways talk therapy could not.”
You need an approach that honors how you're wired — not one that asks you to fit a mold.
One that has room for your creativity, your complexity, and yes — the possibility that healing doesn't have to be joyless to be real.
For many clients, one of the most transformative parts of this work is BREATHE Somatic Movement. It's a powerful option within the Rose Intensive — not a requirement.
If you've ever felt that your body was holding something you couldn't think or talk your way out of — grief, anxiety, the residue of experiences that never quite resolved — BREATHE was built for that.
It's also for you if:
Sitting perfectly still in meditation has never quite worked for your nervous system.
Talking about it — even with a skilled therapist — has only taken you so far.
You need some joy, creativity, and even fun woven into the work you're doing.
Other trauma-informed modalities have felt too intense, too rigid, or just not right for how you're wired.
You want to reclaim pleasure not as something taboo or hidden, but as part of your aliveness and your birthright as a human being.
You want to access something real — and you're open to music and movement being the way in.
“The session felt very effective, comforting, and liberating. I could see this working really well for those who tend to spend too much time in their heads and not enough time in their bodies — and for trauma release for those who haven’t resonated with the intensity of something like EMDR.”
You might be wondering: how does movement actually resolve trauma? Here's the short answer:
Trauma isn't stored as a memory — it's stored as a pattern in the body and nervous system. And under stress, threat, or pressure — including the pressure of success, love, and change — it’s the pattern that takes the wheel.
Talk and insight can name it. But naming isn't the same as moving through it. BREATHE brings together movement, curated music, and somatic awareness — not as separate tools, but intentionally woven through rhythm, an arc of practices, visualization, and subconscious reflection, informed by trauma science, neurodiversity, parts work, and lived experience. Together, they can complete what the nervous system started and couldn't finish on its own.
This is the neuroscience behind BREATHE, and why clients often describe results after a single session.
“I experienced a mental release through the practice, and left with encouragement that this type of experience exists. I’d recommend this to anyone wanting to access more freedom and healing by incorporating movement, especially if they feel bound up with shame, rigidity, and/or anxiety. I thought the session was beautiful.”
BREATHE combines curated music and adaptive movement to restore the nervous system, complete the stress cycle, and let what wants to come alive in you finally emerge. It's not a dance class, and no dancing is required — though many clients find themselves experiencing movement in whole new ways, and falling in love with it. And it's not a workout (unless you really want it to be!) — though your body will thank you.
With every movement session you'll receive a carefully personalized playlist to keep — eclectic, intentional, and chosen specifically for your nervous system, preferences, and goals. Clients have said the playlist alone feels like being deeply known.
BREATHE was created with accessibility, neurodivergence, and trauma recovery at its center. There is no right or wrong way to move. You'll have gentle, non-judgmental guidance to help you find your movement — a careful balance of structure and freedom that adapts as I get to know you. You can turn your camera off. You can move in whatever way your body asks. The only guide is what feels true for you in that moment.
“I had a light bulb moment. I hold emotions so close that they present physically, and this provided release without having to verbally process them. Clients would benefit from the importance of releasing emotions we weren’t aware of stored in the body.”
And if movement isn't where you're starting — that's okay too. Depending on your goals, your history, and what feels right for you, we may work through creative expression, visualization, writing, or other embodied and relational practices. The Rose Model is the map. We'll collaborate to shape how you travel it — according to your needs, your wiring, and what calls to you.
The Rose Intensive is offered in three engagement levels:
The 6-Month Journey — $435/month This is where the deepest and most lasting work happens. Six months gives us the time and depth to move through real transformation — not just relief, but genuine change that holds. And it's the only engagement level that includes access to The Upwelling: VIP Sessions.
Upwelling is an oceanic phenomenon where deep, nutrient-rich water rises to the surface — and where it does, it fertilizes everything above it, creating conditions for extraordinary growth and aliveness. That's exactly what we create together here. The Upwelling is a series of dedicated 90-minute VIP sessions — the bridge between insight and action, held and somatically supported every step of the way. Where your inner work meets your outer life. Available exclusively to 6-month clients at $435 for 3 sessions.
The 3-Month Engagement — $465/month For those ready to do real work and go deep. Three months gives us meaningful time to establish the foundation, build momentum, and create change you can feel.
The Intro Month — $495 Three sessions to experience the work firsthand. A genuine beginning — and for many clients, the door to something they didn't yet know was possible.
All engagements include:
75-90 minute personalized sessions
a private workspace where we track your goals, notes, and progress
custom resources saved in your workspace for you to keep
accountability check-ins
direct access between sessions for the moments that can't wait
The session rhythm is designed to keep momentum without overwhelming your life — typically three sessions per month with integration time built in. That said, life happens. If you need to space sessions out for affordability or the pace of your life, we'll talk through what works. What matters most is that you keep moving forward, at a pace that's actually sustainable for you.
My clients often stay for 18 months to three years or more — not because they have to, but because each layer that opens reveals something they didn't know was possible. This work has a way of exceeding what you came in hoping for.
What clients say about the Rose Intensive.
Some things are better said by the people who've lived them.
On what opens up over time:
“Working with Lori is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. It’s therapeutic, healing, inspiring… It’s like the movement shakes off the gunk, helps you release so much, and allows a sort of magic to come through.
After each session I feel clear, inspired, and ready to take action, and whatever I need just happens. I’m better able to protect myself and my energy and take action toward what’s important to me.
The movement works in tandem with my creative work, too. Not only do I get these tools and all the support during the week, but after each session, a new painting comes to life!”
From a colleague in the mental health field:
“The safety, respect, and support that Lori emanates made me feel able to explore the feelings and sensations. I took with me several ways to reconnect the brain and body and reclaimed a greater sense of connection in my life.”
a Note from Lori
For a long time, I didn't think what was happening to me had a name. I grew up with loving people, a decent education, and what people called a good head on my shoulders. And so I did what so many of us do — I minimized it, moved past it, told myself it wasn't that bad. While quietly, without fully realizing it, losing myself.
Every person's journey is unique, and I respect that deeply. What I didn't know then was that I'd experienced sexual violence — first as a child, in ways it took me decades to recognize, and then in patterns and new types of violations I didn't have the tools to fully see. Each time, some part of me unknowingly concluded: there must be something fundamentally inadequate — even unpalatable — about me. And each time, I braced a little harder.
It wasn't until a coach helped me see what was happening in a relationship that was harming me that I made the first real decision of my healing: to become healthy and whole. What followed was a long journey — and somewhere in it I realized I needed to create the one thing I couldn't find anywhere. Not just a way through, but a real blueprint for reclaiming who you are — and for never losing the core of yourself again.
That became the Rose Model. That became BREATHE Somatic Movement.
And I want you to know — this work keeps deepening because I know healing isn't linear or one-and-done. When I experienced workplace violence years into this work, it took me back to the shock of recognizing harm I hadn't seen coming. When I lost my father, I had to navigate grief in whole new ways. Each time, I came through with new tools, a deeper practice, and a more embodied understanding of what it means to meet someone exactly where they are — not where the world tells us to pretend to be.
I hold a Professional Certificate in Sexual Health Education from the University of Michigan School of Social Work, and I've spent over a decade in continuing education on trauma processing and integration, the nervous system, the neurodiversity paradigm, racial and disability justice, somatics, and sexual and relational health. I've stood on stages, sometimes shaking inside, and spoken publicly about things that once felt unspeakable — twice as a TEDx speaker — because I believe that when we name what's been kept in the dark, we create permission for others to do the same. And I've spent 20+ years studying and teaching movement as a vehicle for healthy expression and connection — because I've seen how music and movement can liberate what words alone cannot reach.
But what I most want you to know is this: I don't tell people what to do or who to be. I'm here to help you resurrect what went quiet — and to walk with you until it's not just found, but lived. I'm here for the dreams that nudge you at 3am that you haven't yet given voice to. I'm here for the bumps along the way. And I'm here above all to honor the full humanity of who you are.
There will never be another you on this earth. We need who you are and how you move in this world.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Every session is different — because you are different from one session to the next, and the work meets you where you are. Sessions are 75-90 minutes and typically weave together conversation, somatic awareness, and whatever practices address whatever you and your aliveness most need that day — whether that's movement, creative expression, visualization, or relational skill-building. There's always a thread connecting back to your goals, and there's always room for what's actually present. Nothing is forced, and nothing is wasted. If you are navigating trauma, I guide you carefully through the three stages of trauma recovery: 1) Establishing Safety, 2) Doing parts work or trauma processing, and 3) Integration. This is an important factor in designing your program with a minimum of three sessions at a time.
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Yes — sessions are held online/virtually, and yes, with complete focus on your safety and comfort, it absolutely works. Clients are often surprised by how present and connected the experience feels, and how effectively the somatic work translates online. You'll be in your own space, which actually has real advantages — you're already in your environment, your body is at home, and there's no commute between the session and the rest of your life. For movement sessions specifically, being in your own space adds a layer of privacy and freedom that many clients find makes the work easier, not harder.
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A few important ways. First, I'm not a therapist — I'm an educator and coach with deep training in trauma-informed care, somatic movement, and sexual and relational health. Therapy and this work can complement each other beautifully, and some clients do both. What's different here is the breadth of what we address, the embodied and creative methods we use, and the wraparound nature of the support, with laser focus on your goals through every chapter. This includes a private workspace, custom resources, and access to me between sessions. Many clients come here specifically because they've hit a ceiling with talk-based approaches and need a different door. Others come with no therapy background at all. Both are welcome.
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The results are more than most people come in expecting. Here's what clients typically experience over the course of this work:
A quiet but significant shift in confidence — not the performed kind, but the kind that shows up in how you speak, what you tolerate, and what you reach for.
Profound self-compassion that changes how you navigate mistakes, relationships, and hard decisions.
Forward momentum on goals you've been circling for years.
Greater emotional freedom — being informed by your feelings rather than hijacked by them, with real tools to move through heavy emotions in minutes rather than days.
And a personal blueprint — a felt, embodied understanding of what healthy connection with yourself and others actually looks and feels like for you specifically.
For some clients, the work opens doors they didn't expect: creative breakthroughs, career and income growth, a first truly healthy intimate partnership, the ability to recognize and exit harmful dynamics far faster than before. Clients have gone from stuck to launching businesses, completing long-dreamed-of projects, and saying — sometimes with surprise — "I'm happier than I've ever been."
What stays consistent is this: the results aren't just about feeling better in the moment. They're about becoming someone who knows how to come back to themselves — no matter what life brings.
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Sooner than you might think — and also, like anything human: it depends. Many clients describe a felt shift after the very first session. Something moves that hasn't moved in a long time. That said, the deeper work — the kind that changes how you show up in relationships, how you make decisions, how you inhabit your own life — that unfolds over months, not days. What I can tell you is that this work tends to exceed what people came in hoping for. The results aren't just relief. They're a different relationship with yourself entirely.
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That's completely okay — and honestly, more common than you might think. BREATHE Somatic Movement is one powerful option within this work, not a requirement. If you're curious but nervous, we'll go at exactly your pace. If it's not right for you at all, there are other ways in. The only thing that's required is a willingness to show up and see what's possible. Your comfort, safety, and agency guide everything we do.
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This is one of the most important questions you can ask, and it deserves a real answer. Trauma isn't stored as a memory — it's stored as a pattern in the body and nervous system. Talk and insight can name what happened, but can’t help the brain make sense of it. The body often holds patterns that words alone can't fully reach or release. Movement, music, and somatic awareness work directly with those nervous system patterns — helping the nervous system complete what it started and couldn't finish, discharge what's been held, and restore a felt sense of safety and aliveness. This is the neuroscience behind BREATHE, and it's why clients often describe results after a single session that years of talk-based work didn't touch.
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Yes — and this is one of the areas where people most need a safe, judgment-free space that rarely exists elsewhere. Whether you're navigating the impacts of sexual trauma, wanting to reclaim your sensuality and pleasure, working through shame around your sexuality or expression, or looking to deepen intimacy and communication in a partnership, this work holds all of it. You are not broken. Your sensuality and sexuality are part of who you are — and you deserve space to explore and reclaim them.
A note on qualifications: I hold a post-graduate certificate in sexuality education from the University of Michigan School of Social Work, and have been training in continuing education alongside sexual health therapists, counselors, and fellow educators since 2016. This work is held with the depth, care, and professional grounding it deserves. -
Not at all. While my own lived experience and training are deeply rooted in sexual and relational health and trauma recovery, the people I work with come from many different entry points — grief, life transitions, unexplained physical symptoms, painful family dynamics, creative blocks, or a general sense of having lost themselves. What they share isn't a specific type of experience. It's that something has gotten stored in the body and the self that needs a different kind of attention. If you're not sure whether this work is right for what you're carrying, a consultation call together is exactly the place to find out.
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The Rose Intensive is offered in three engagement levels — a 3-session trial month at $495, a 3-month engagement at $465/month, and a 6-month journey at $435/month. All engagements include 75-90 minute sessions, a private workspace, custom resources, and direct access between sessions for the moments that can't wait. Sessions are designed around a rhythm of three per month with integration time built in — and we build your engagement around your reality, not the other way around. The reason I work in a minimum of three sessions at a time is rooted in how trauma work actually progresses: safety, then processing, then integration. I won't send you away in the middle of something important or before you have the skills to carry what we've built together. If you have questions about investment or want to talk through what makes sense for your situation, bring them to the consultation call — I'm happy to have that conversation.
You've carried this alone long enough.
Let's find out what's possible together.
If you're at all curious about working together, the next step is a conversation — just the two of us, at no cost to you. No pressure, and no sales pitch. Just a real, unhurried talk about where you are, what you're carrying, and what you're hoping for. It matters to me that you are fully heard, and can ask whatever you need to ask. We'll both get a sense of whether working together makes sense, and you'll leave with more clarity about your next right step — and feeling genuinely heard, perhaps for the first time in a long time.
Not sure yet? Take your time. Read back through whatever called to you. Sit with your questions. And when you're ready — even just a little ready — reach out. If we're a good fit, we'll know. And if I'm not the right person for where you are right now, I'll do my best to help you find who is.