Louise Rose, ND

I’m Dr. Louise Rose — a naturopathic physician, former chef, and lifelong lover of creative practice. I trained at the National University of Natural Medicine and have spent 16 years weaving clinical care with sensory, imaginative, and hands-on healing. Growing up in Missoula — acting in the children’s theatre, playing by the river, and eating from a family garden — taught me early that stories, place, and the body’s senses are central medicine.

My focus is whole-body mental health and nervous-system regulation. I help people navigate anxiety, insomnia, depression, migraines, post-concussive symptoms, long COVID effects, trauma, and neurodivergence. I hold a neuro-affirming, trauma-aware space where symptoms are treated as signals and where lab values meet imagination: both matter.

I work collaboratively with motivated patients who want a partner rather than a fixer. Clinical care is evidence-informed — labs, functional testing, and careful diagnostics — paired with creative, embodied therapies: LENS neurofeedback, craniosacral and shiatsu work, somatic practices and TRE®, botanical and energetic medicine, aroma acupoint therapy, homeopathy, and ritual. I love using the senses — breath, touch, taste, scent, water — to help people come home to themselves. My practice has long integrated restorative water therapies (sauna, cold plunge, tepidarium), and I carry that reverence for rivers and nature cure hydrotherapy into my treatment priorities.

I bring a curious, playful, and pragmatic spirit: part scientist, part artist. Expect clear clinical goals alongside imaginative practices — guided sensory rituals, castor oil packs, culinary and botanical tools — designed to restore regulation, resilience, and a felt sense of safety in the body.

I recently returned to Missoula after closing the Portland clinic; I maintain my Oregon license and continue telehealth there. If you’re ready to do the steady, sometimes surprising work of healing — grounded in data and guided by creativity — we’ll likely be a good fit.

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