The First Gate
Individual Care
There is a kind of care that meets you at the root.
Not at the symptom. Not at the surface. At the place where everything that is asking for attention in your body, your life, and your awareness converges.
That is where this work begins.
Dr. Cass brings the full depth of classical Daoist medicine, evidence-based neuroscience, and two decades of lineage-based practice to every session — woven together with a quality of presence and subtle perception that her patients describe as immediately, unmistakably different.
You will feel it before she places a single needle.
You Might Recognize Yourself Here
You are high-functioning and deeply aware — and you know something is still not right. You have tried the conventional routes and found them incomplete. You are moving through a transition that demands more than symptom management. You are ready to optimize not just your body but the full quality of your life. You are navigating something profound — a loss, an awakening, a threshold — and you want support that can actually hold the depth of it. You have heard about Dr. Cass from someone who trusts her completely.
Each session is its own complete encounter — no two are ever the same.
Ways to Work Together
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Available to patients locally and remotely
Comprehensive lab panels interpreted through both Western functional medicine and classical Chinese medicine pattern diagnosis — blood, saliva, urine, GI map, and hair analysis. Partnering with Rupa Health and Fullscript to provide wholesale pricing on all herbs and supplements directly to patients.Because root cause medicine requires root cause data.
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The foundation of the practice. One-on-one clinical care integrating the full spectrum of Dr. Cass's training — acupuncture, herbal medicine, Medical Qigong, vibrational sound healing, Reiki, somatic embodiment, and contemplative presence. Each session is designed around your exact moment.
Clinical Care
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Classical Chinese herbal medicine and supplement guidance available online for patients outside of Austin — delivered via HIPAA-protected video consultation. Custom granule formulas, tinctures, and protocols shipped directly to your door through Fullscript at wholesale pricing.
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A sophisticated clinical protocol rooted in classical Chinese medicine — addressing the face, neck, and décolletage through micro-fine needling, constitutional treatment, and the cultivation of radiance from within. Mei Zen works at both the surface and the root — because true beauty is a reflection of inner vitality.
Deeper Dive
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or those navigating awakening, existential threshold states, grief, psychedelic integration, and the deeper questions of meaning, purpose, and path.
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Dr. Cass serves as a ketamine-assisted therapy facilitator and integration specialist — providing preparation, in-session guidance, and extensive post-session integration support. Her approach bridges psychedelic medicine, somatic awareness, and classical Chinese medicine frameworks for consciousness and healing.
Integration support is available as a standalone offering for those working with any plant medicine or psychedelic modality.
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The most intimate and complete container available in private practice. A full arc of Contemplative Medicine™ — tea ceremony, acupuncture and vibrational sound healing, Medical Qigong, and closing ritual. Reserved for those ready to go all the way in.
Treatments Offered
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The oldest continuously practiced medicine on the planet — refined over thousands of years into one of the most sophisticated systems of healing ever developed.
Dr. Cass is trained in Classical, Five Element, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Cosmetic, and Esoteric styles — bringing the full breadth of the tradition to each session, selecting the approach that serves your exact moment.
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Hands-on therapeutic techniques that release what the body has been holding — in tissue, in fascia, in the nervous system itself.
May include cupping, myofascial release, moxa, Gua Sha, Tuina, craniosacral techniques, and red light therapy — selected and combined based on what your body is asking for in the moment.
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Chinese Herbal Medicine & Dietary Therapy
One of the most sophisticated botanical pharmacopeias in the world — thousands of years of refined clinical wisdom distilled into precise, personalized formulations.
Each herbal prescription is written specifically for you — never generic, never off the shelf. Delivered as pills, powdered tea, raw herbs for home preparation, or precooked and packaged for convenience.
Dietary guidance is woven in where relevant — food as the first medicine, always.
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Medical Qigong
An ancient and precise system of cultivated energy medicine — working with breath, movement, intention, and the body's subtle field to restore flow, regulate the nervous system, and awaken the body's innate healing intelligence.
Dr. Cass holds a Medical Qigong Master certification with full transmission authority — meaning she not only practices but trains and certifies students through all levels of the lineage. Her doctoral honors concentration at AOMA was devoted to Qigong and the effects of vibrational healing.
This is not gentle stretching. This is medicine at the level of qi.
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At the foundation of every healing tradition on earth lies a single recognition — that the body is not merely biochemical, but energetic. That beneath the tissue, the organ, the cell, there is a field of intelligence that organizes and animates all of it.
Energy medicine works at that level directly.
Dr. Cass is a Reiki Master of the 7th generation Usui lineage — authorized to attune and certify students through all levels, including the authority to train other teachers. Combined with Medical Qigong and the Daoist cultivation of golden light, her energy medicine practice operates at the precise intersection of ancient transmission and modern understanding of the biofield.
When the field is clear, the body knows what to do.
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Sound is the oldest medicine. Before the needle, before the herb, before any technique — there was frequency. Vibration. The voice of the cosmos moving through the body.
Dr. Cass is a lifelong performing musician and vocalist whose doctoral honors research was devoted entirely to Qigong and the effects of vibrational healing. This is not a supplementary modality — it is a primary language of her practice.
Her instruments include gongs, Tibetan bowls, tuning forks, swarmandal, shruti box, harmonium, koshi chimes, frame drum, sacred chants, medicine songs, and grand piano.
Her doctoral treatise chapters tell the arc of this work: Mystery Within Order · Reiki, Grace and Ling · Yuen Shen — Original Spirit · Virtue, Li Shi-Zhen, 8 EV, and NeiDan · The Return: I Ching and Dao · Vibration, Sound, Nada Brahma · Buddha Nature and Love · The Sage as Healer · Silence
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Daoism is not a philosophy applied to medicine. It is medicine — a living tradition of cultivation, perception, and transmission that has been passed from teacher to student in an unbroken lineage for thousands of years.
Dr. Cass is a 23rd generation ordained priestess of the Longmen — Dragon Gate — sect of Quanzhen, the Complete Reality School of Daoism. Her Daoist name is 金宗興 Jin Zong Xing. She carries the Zhu You transmission — a rare healing modality within the tradition that works through incantation, talisman, and the imbuement of love-light.
This lineage does not merely inform her clinical work. It is her clinical work. The cultivation of virtue, the refinement of presence, the transmission of golden light — these are not metaphors. They are the mechanisms by which Daoist medicine heals.
Her Daoist family is Parting Clouds.
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Some of the most profound work happens outside the treatment room — in the space between diagnosis and mystery, where what is needed is not another technique but a quality of witness that can see clearly and speak truly.
Dr. Cass offers spiritual direction and mentorship for those navigating awakening, existential threshold states, kundalini emergence, psychedelic integration, grief, and the deeper questions of meaning, purpose, and path.
She also offers dedicated Intuitive Field Reading sessions — bringing her gifts of direct knowing, clairvoyant perception, and subtle awareness to your field. Your patterns. Your blocks. Your next threshold. No needles. No techniques. Pure presence and transmission.
These sessions are available as standalone offerings or woven into ongoing clinical care.
Intuitive Field Reading · 60 minutes · $350 Spiritual Direction & Mentorship · by inquiry
I help high- performing sensitive souls regulate
their nervous system, release chronic stress/pain, awaken vitality, and transform their life-
through an elegant blend of ancient medicine and modern science.
