About With The Seasons Chinese Medicine

With The Seasons is an Albany-based Chinese medicine practice specializing in custom herbal medicine for patients throughout California.

Through telehealth consultations and our Bay Area herbal pharmacy, we create personalized formulas designed around your unique health picture, season of life, and treatment goals.

A zero-gravity chair for acupuncture at With The Seasons herbal pharmacy

In-person acupuncture and herbal medicine appointments are available at our Albany clinic for patients seeking hands-on care.

a note from your practitioner

At With the Seasons, we believe that life, like the seasons, is a continuous cycle of growth, rest, and renewal. There are times to expand and times to conserve. Seasons of abundance, seasons of uncertainty, seasons that ask us to move forward, and seasons that ask us to pause. Our bodies follow these rhythms too.

Chinese medicine teaches that health is not a fixed destination. It is the ongoing practice of responding to change with awareness and care. Symptoms are not interruptions to life—they are often signals that something within us is asking for attention.

I created With the Seasons as a place where medicine is thoughtful, personal, and rooted in the understanding that every stage of life has different needs.

Whether you are seeking support for pain, sleep, digestion, stress, hormones, fertility, or emotional well-being, our work begins by listening carefully to the story your body is telling.

My role is not simply to treat symptoms, but to help you understand the patterns beneath them. Through acupuncture, custom herbal medicine, and lifestyle guidance, we work together to restore balance in a way that feels sustainable and aligned with your life.

Every season has its own medicine. We'll help you find yours.

our process

how care unfolds

Listen

Your story matters.

We ask what’s happening, what you’ve already tried, and what your body has been carrying so we can understand the full picture.

Personalize

Custom formulas tailored to you.

We blend on-site in our Bay Area pharmacy, ship statewide, and offer acupuncture and nutrition support when needed.

Adapt

Your care changes as you change.

We track what’s shifting through the seasons and adjust your treatment to meet your body where it is as your needs evolve.

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Dr. Siegel is accepting new Telehealth patients throughout California and in her Bay Area clinic.

foundation of your care

Why We Lead With Herbs

If you’ve done acupuncture elsewhere, it was probably the main event. Here, herbal medicine is the foundation of your care — and there’s a long clinical tradition behind that choice.

01 :: The Classical Approach

Herbs are the primary medicine

In classical Chinese medicine, herbs enter the system daily and work continuously on the root of your condition. Acupuncture is the skilled adjustment that amplifies what the herbs are doing. Together they outperform either one alone.

02 :: The Personalization

Blended for you, on site

Your formula is designed for your constitution and condition, then hand-blended from our granular pharmacy. This depth of customization only happens when herbs anchor the treatment.

03 :: The Prevention Model

Medicine for staying well

Ancient physicians were paid to keep their patients healthy — payment stopped when you got sick. That’s the model we follow. Consistent herbs shift your underlying patterns, and our goal is to ease you out of needing frequent visits.