Lori Valentine Rose, PhD, CNP, BCHN, RH (AHG), has been studying holistic wellness for over a decade. She believes in using lifestyle changes, food, and herbs as medicine (in that order).  She has been teaching holistic nutrition and majors biology at Hill College since 2008, and is the founder and educator of the Hill College Holistic Wellness Pathway, the only accredited (financial aid eligible) wellness pathway that includes both the educational and clinical training required for three national holistic wellness boards (NANP, AHG, ICHWC) as part of one complete program that also leads to an Associate of Science degree.  Lori Rose has her BS in bio-environmental science, her MS and PhD in biology, is a nationally certified nutrition professional, nationally board certified in holistic nutrition, and nationally registered clinical herbalist. She studied herbalism with Rosemary Gladstar, Juliet Blankespoor, Rosalee de la Foret, KP Khalsa, Paul Bergner, Kami McBride, Sam Coffman, and various herbalists through Herb Mentor (jim mcdonald, Todd Caldecott, John Gallagher).  She also runs her own private holistic nutrition and clinical herbalist business, Lori Rose Holistic, and teaches organic permaculture gardening through city and school gardens. She specializes in addressing chronic health issues holistically, and hopes to help mentees get comfortable with the hands-on clinical and business aspect of being a clinical herbalist and becoming a registered herbalist through the AHG.   She also provides training in holistic nutrition and successful coaching aspects of health protocols, and is equally qualified in all three areas.  Mentees can sign up for 2 group clinical courses through the Hill College Holistic Wellness Pathway, obtaining college credit and using financial aid/veteran's benefits while learning the clinical and business aspect of holistic health protocols.  Mentees can also sign up for private one-on-one mentor sessions via phone, email, Skype, or in person ($100/hour).

I have a background in botanical studies, plant conservation, community activism and herbal first aid clinics and have spent the last 20 years traveling around wild and weedy corners of North America studying and using bioregional native and naturalized medicinal plants. I am the Director and founder of the Wildflower School of Botanical Medicine in Austin, which offers onsite and online education in holistic herbalism. I am also a founder of the Traditions Not Trademark Free Fire Cider campaign, working to protect our traditional remedies for future generations. I began my practice in the streets, as Direct Action Herbal and First Aid Support at large protests like the WTO. I then began training others in supporting street actions and went on to create and/or assist in several backwoods and indigenous-led clinics around the country. Studying and/or working with practitioners like Michael Moore, Margi Flint , Maria Elena Martinez ,Greta de la Montagne, Will Morris, Karyn Sanders, and Filiberto Delgado, led me into seeing clients in a more intimate, one on one scenario using assessment skills like body reading. I spent many years cultivating my knowledge and combining it with massage and bodywork skills. After teaching community herbalism for over a decade, I launched a clinical program at my school in 2012. I am now providing a mentorship to carefully screened herbalists around the country who want to take their herbalism and do something practical and apply it in a real world setting clinically. I am able to work onsite with folks in both Austin and Portland or online webinars/phone. I practice from a holistic western perspective peppered with the influences of the dozens of herbalists from the U.S., Mexico, and Europe that have made my practice what it is today. I have training and a pretty solid grasp of Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Physiomedicalism, Eclecticism, Greek Medicine and other traditional healing systems. I specialize in using bioregional medicines and creating a garden-grown/weedy apothecaries, as well as work a lot with chronic skin issues, mental and spiritual health, woundcare and pain, gut imbalances, constitutional balance, creating clinics, emergency herbal first aid support, ethics, being a compassionate human, and cultural competency.

Hourly rate for mentorship 50/hr for AHG members 75/other or apply to join a group onsite at a reduced rate in Portland and Austin...

I’ve been in herbal practice since 1985 – off the grid, at large music festivals and at marches, at walk-in free clinics and with clients I’ve worked with for 30 years. I work especially with elderly folks, people with chronic and auto-immune conditions, addictions, Lyme and spirit. I work in a mix of herbal traditions -Thomsonian, vitalist, rural southern USA, basic Ayurveda, TCM assessment, rural Cuban/old Florida. I work holistically and am committed to learning and using what is local. I have studied with many great herbalists you have never heard of including family, Sai, Paul Olko and Crazy Owl. I teach clinical skills to herbalists through Allegheny Herbal with the esteemed herbalist Leslie Alexander RH, as well as teaching as adjunct faculty at Arborvitae School of Traditional Herbalism in NYC and my work as an Ordinary Community Herbalist. I maintain a practice seeing clients including dogs and horses. I grow, wild-craft, barter and sometimes buy herbs for my apothecary. I co-founded an international natural body care company. I have managed large herbal (western and TCM) stores and food cooperatives and have worked as a corporate herbalist responsible for labeling, formulating products and training staff worldwide. Work with LGBTQ folk has always been part of my practice.

Clinical Specialties: Holistic physical assessments, ethics, differential diagnosis and assessment, nutrition, counseling skills, red flags for urgent referral, legal issues, formulating and medicine making, dosage and dispensing, herb/drug/nutrient interactions, business management, lab tests, spirit and rural southern traditional skills.

Other mentoring – in-depth advising and review of AHG application for professional membership. Research skills and scientific validation and exploration, editing. I work with sliding scale and will barter for practice speaking Spanish.

I live in Georgia and work and teach online as well as in person.

I garden, cook, bicycle, play banjo, practice zazen.