Herbalist and acupuncturist Ann Cleary holding her child, who is now much bigger and can often be sign scootering in the clinic courtyard. Ann’s specialties include: fertility, infertility, obstetrics, postpartum, menopause, uterine bleeding, difficult to treat and or chronic Western illnesses, and oncology support.
Meet the team.
Hi, I’m Ann. It is my profound honor to use acupuncture and plant medicine to the benefit of all body shapes, colors, sizes, and genders. Whether you are turning to this medicine as a prevention against future illness, or after turning everywhere else in an effort to treat chronic illness, East Asian medicine can help you restore balance and wholeness to your life.
As one of my favorite teachers was fond of saying, “Acupuncture is amazing. You know why? Because the body is amazing!” Our symptoms are only a messenger of imbalance, and as I have had the good fortune to experience for myself and witness in patients, when the body is given time and gentle guidance, it is very capable of profound healing.
Long before I ever contemplated practicing acupuncture, I was a visual artist. Little did I know that this daily habit of discipline, careful attention, and curiosity before the great mystery that is life on this planet would someday serve me well as a medical provider. I graduated Summa Cum Laude from Emperor’s College in Santa Monica in 2018, and am licensed to practice acupuncture and herbalism in the state of California. License #18561
What I treat.
One of the treasures of East Asian medicine is that its diagnostic tools do not limit the practitioner to treating named or identifiable diseases, and this versatility is one of the things I most enjoy about patient encounters. In this sense I do not specialize.
That said, here are some of the things I treat most frequently: chronic illness, including with histories of trauma, patients about to undergo, undergoing, or recovering from oncology treatment, medicine for the whole family including pediatrics, people of all genders hoping to conceive a child, gynecology, andrology, fertility, infertility, obstetrics, postpartum care, menopause, uterine bleeding, difficult to treat diagnoses and chronic illness. Traditional East Asian medicine is rich in its applications…if you are looking for support and are not sure if I can help, please reach out.
My style of acupuncture relies heavily on palpation and relies on immediate feedback from the body. My use of herbal medicine is judicious and is informed by the classics.
Sarah Barenberg standing in front of herbal medicine in the Atwater Village acupuncture clinic.
Sarah Barenberg
This is Sarah. On the days we are lucky enough to have her, she runs the front of the office, making herbs and handling check outs. When she is not with us, she is studying East Asian medicine or interning as an acupuncturist in Santa Monica at Emperor's College. Sarah was raised in a family of Western medical providers and comes to East Asian medicine via sketch comedy. She is going deep into Western occult practices and it’s Judaic roots within the tarot in addition to her East Asian studies. Her unique lens is able to synthesize the gifts of allopathic and alternative medicine and marry the symbolic to the tangible for your benefit and that of her future patients.