Helping people navigate illness, pain & uncertainty.
There is a path forward.
Using acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and coaching, I help people facing difficult health challenges find a clearer path through treatment, recovery, and life.
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Jeremy Rothenberg, LAc, MSTCM, Dipl. OM
Acupuncturist · Herbalist · Coach
17 years in clinical practice. Board-certified in Chinese herbal medicine. Working at the intersection of clinical medicine, recovery, and resilience.
Ashland, OR | Remote worldwide.
Finding a path forward.
She came in exhausted, inflamed, and overwhelmed.
Three months later, she felt better. The pain eased. Her mood changed. Her sense of self returned.
Watch how she describes the change.
How to Work with Me
In-Person (Ashland) — Acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, with lab-informed supplement protocols and hands-on care for acute and chronic conditions. 60–90 min sessions at Morningstar Healing Arts. → Schedule Acupuncture
Complex / Chronic Health (Ashland & Remote) — Custom herbal prescriptions, lab-informed supplement protocols, and coaching for persistent health issues that haven't resolved elsewhere. → Book a Free Consultation
Coaching & Performance (Remote) — For executives, professionals, and high performers navigating pressure, transition, burnout, or recovery. Nervous system-based, clinically grounded. → Book a Free Consultation
How I Work
I’m a licensed acupuncturist, Chinese herbalist, and coach with 17 years of clinical experience working with complex, often misunderstood cases.
My work draws from:
Acupuncture to directly influence pain, inflammation, circulation, and autonomic function
Chinese herbal medicine, a sophisticated medical system using concentrated formulas to affect digestion, hormones, immune response, and energy regulation
Guided nervous system training: meditation, self-inquiry, and habit change that retrain attention, perception, and stress response
A Western medical lens, including lab review and pattern recognition, to help determine when something deeper or more structural needs attention
I teach meditation not as a relaxation technique, but as nervous system training — a way to reclaim attention, notice where body and mind are out of sync, and restore internal coherence.
This work is clinical and systems-based, aimed at restoring capacity where the body has adapted into dysfunction.
Why I Do This Work
I spent decades dealing with unexplained symptoms — panic, fatigue, heart irregularities — that were eventually traced to a severe, undiagnosed cardiac condition.
At 54, I underwent open-heart surgery. Two years later, I was running up mountains, training for ultramarathons.
That journey reshaped how I understand healing, pressure, and the nervous system — and it directly informs how I work with patients today.
I know what it's like to have real symptoms that no one can explain. I know what it's like to be told it's stress, or anxiety, or nothing. And I know what becomes possible when someone finally listens to what your body is actually saying.
When Health Becomes Uncertain
Many people I work with have already tried a lot.
They’ve seen specialists. They’ve changed diets. They’ve taken supplements. They’ve been told it’s stress. Or anxiety. Or aging. Or that nothing is wrong.
And yet something still doesn’t feel right.
Sometimes the issue is structural. Sometimes it’s physiological. Sometimes the nervous system has become stuck in survival mode. Often it’s some combination of all three.
The work is figuring out what is actually happening — and helping you move forward from there.
One Pattern I See Often
At the base of all this work is a simple question the body never stops asking: Am I safe?
When the answer is yes, even partially, even briefly, the nervous system can rest, repair, and restore. When the answer is persistently no, the body shifts into fight-or-flight, burning energy to stay vigilant, narrowing perception, and treating ordinary challenges as threats.
Over time, this state becomes the default. Chronic pain, illness, fatigue, and burnout often have this pattern running underneath, not as the only cause, but as a significant one.
This is the meeting point between Chinese medicine and modern nervous system science.
What classical medicine understood as yin and yang, the balance between activation and restoration, maps almost exactly onto what we now understand about the autonomic nervous system. When people learn to identify this pattern in themselves and take steps toward genuine felt safety, the results can be significant.
Pain softens. Energy returns. The situation starts to look different.
This is the foundation the work builds on, regardless of whether you're navigating illness, burnout, or something in between.
Next step:
Whether you're facing chronic pain, illness, burnout, recovery, or a difficult diagnosis, a conversation is a good place to start.
Let’s see what we can come up with together.