Doctor. Teacher. Writer.
Your health is precious. Your ability to impact your health with lifestyle and natural medicine is enormous. So glad you’re here for timely compelling information, encouragement, and hopefully, inspiration.

“This book and all of Dr. Amy’s approaches create a treatment plan that dovetails and compliments conventional cancer care and most importantly encourages physical vitality, mental clarity, and emotional balance vital for all of us on our healing journeys.”
Nancy Hofeuter O’Hara, MD, MPH
You Finished Treatment, Now What? is a roadmap for lifestyle and natural medicine approaches to address health challenges that persist after cancer care, and to reduce the risk of recurrence.
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Articles by Dr. Amy Rothenberg
#13 Recalculating
#13 Recalculating For decades Paul and I have brought together an ever-lovely group of friends and family on our backyard Mt Pollux for Rosh Hashanah. This year it felt important to continue our tradition. I wasn’t feeling 100%, but had so many people help with all...
#12 Organ Recital
As someone who has lived my life in the driver’s seat, it’s not easy being a passenger. As someone who has been the proverbial giver, it’s not easy being the receiver. As someone who has nurtured a career as a healer, it’s hard to be the patient. Of course, no one has...
#9 Bare Bones
We leave Amherst at 8 am for a day of appts at MGH in Boston Wednesday. Slated for bloodwork, a conversation with the clinical trial nurses, meeting with the PA, and a PICC line dressing cleaning (which I immediately reframe as a spa experience! Ah the cool cleansers...

Doctor, Teacher, Writer, and Advocate for Healthy Living
When diagnosed with cancer in 2014, Dr. Rothenberg sought and received state-of-the-art care at a renowned teaching hospital and had her own naturopathic medical team to help her best handle treatment, and rebound afterward. Her book, You Finished Treatment, Now What? A Field Guide for Cancer Survivors is a roadmap for lifestyle and natural medicine approaches to address health challenges that persist after cancer care, and to reduce the risk of recurrence.
An earlier book, The A Cappella Singer Who Lost Her Voice & Other Stories from Natural Medicine highlights patient experiences as a way to share information and inspiration about her beloved profession.
Her writing is evidence-informed, while also bringing her personal experience as a doctor, patient, wife, mother, sister, and friend. Offering a natural, integrative medicine perspective on items in the news, find Dr. Rothenberg’s writing on the Huff Po, Medium, Thrive Global, Elephant Journal and more.
Dr. Rothenberg is an invited speaker to many events for medical providers, the general public, and industry on the value of whole person, natural and integrative medicine where she brings her lively and engaging presentation style along with useful information. If you’d like to invite Dr.Rothenberg to speak with your group, see the Contact page.
Dr. Rothenberg has practiced naturopathic medicine since 1986. With a degree in biology from Antioch College, she was thrilled to find the nascent naturopathic medicine profession in the early 80s, where scientific rigor was joined with gentle, natural medicine education. Dr. Rothenberg is the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, 2017 Physician of the Year and spearheaded the successful effort to license naturopathic doctors in Massachusetts.
Dr. Rothenberg has worked with her longtime collaborator and husband, Paul Herscu ND, MPH since 1986. They have three wonderful adult children and enjoy the good life in Western Massachusetts.