Aesthete Acupuncture is a solo practice run by Marcia Dietzel, who goes by Dr. M with her patients. She is an acupuncturist and not a prescriber, so her Menopause Support program treats symptoms with acupuncture and Chinese medicine and then sends women to outside prescribers for hormone therapy. The first visit runs ninety minutes and includes a written guide to hormone therapy options and a list of lab tests to request from your own doctor. She has extra training in integrative pelvic floor therapy and treats leaking, prolapse and vulvar pain alongside the usual midlife symptoms. She also runs a cosmetic side of the practice with microneedling and cosmetic acupuncture, which she frames as collagen support as estrogen declines. Visits are in person only at her San Antonio office, and she often checks in by email after a session.
Cibolo Family Medicine is a five physician direct primary care practice with offices in Boerne and northwest San Antonio, and Ashley Sommerhalder works out of the San Antonio office near The Rim. Members pay one flat monthly fee for unlimited visits and reach their physician directly by phone, text, email or video. Membership is not billed to insurance, so members tend to keep a separate plan for hospital care, specialists and imaging. She is the only Menopause Society certified practitioner on the team and describes advanced training in menopause and midlife women's health. The practice groups menopause and hormones under women's health, but the site never says which hormone treatments she prescribes. New members can sit down for a free in-office consultation at either office first, and Spanish-language help is available.
She is a family nurse practitioner at UT Health San Antonio and works out of the Gateway clinic on Wurzbach Road. Her profile places her in two departments there, Endocrinology and Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolic Health. The diabetes team is led by an endocrinologist who works with nurse practitioners alongside the physicians. UT Health publishes no biography, no clinical interests and no conditions list for her, which is how the site treats its advanced practice providers generally. The other nurse practitioner in her department has the same blank profile, while every physician there carries a department list of interests that is word for word identical on each of their pages. Her page does say she is taking new patients, and established patients reach her through the health system's patient portal.
Medcare Associates is a five-clinic primary care group in and around San Antonio, and Steffany Mock sees patients at its Sonterra office in the far north of the city. The group was built around walk-in care, and its founder's rule is that sick patients can be seen the same day without an appointment. The staff page says she practises family medicine at Sonterra, and that one sentence is everything the site publishes about her. Nothing on the site mentions menopause, perimenopause or hormone therapy for her or for any of the other twelve providers. The services page covers general primary care, in-house labs and X-rays, and women's health including pap smears.
A solo direct primary care family practice in San Antonio seeing women, men and children for wellness visits, chronic conditions and same-day problems, whose physician is a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner. Members pay monthly instead of using insurance and get direct access by phone, text or video alongside same or next-day appointments in person or by telehealth. Labs are drawn in house at negotiated cash prices, with discounted imaging and body composition scanning through local partners. The practice's stated position is that symptoms rather than hormone levels should guide diagnosis, so routine hormone testing is not usually needed.
Dr. Cornforth is the only provider at Cornforth Gynecology and Medspa, the independent San Antonio practice she opened in 2021 after years in small and large group practices. She sees women for routine gynecology, abnormal bleeding, fibroids, endometriosis, contraception and menopause, and she does the surgery herself when it is needed, including robotic assisted hysterectomy. For menopause she works with estrogen patches, gels and pills, progesterone for women who still have a uterus, vaginal estrogen for dryness, and nonhormonal treatment when hormones are not appropriate. Gynecologic ultrasound is done on site, and in office lab draws are described as a benefit for members of the practice Essentials Tier 1 Access program. Virtual visits are limited to established patients who enroll in that program and hold an access code, so a new patient starts in the office. Booking requires a credit card authorization form before the appointment is reserved, and the practice charges separate administrative fees for prescription refills, prior authorizations and paperwork.
This is a one-physician membership practice that treats hormones as one part of a performance and longevity program for women and men. Dr. Wenhold spent ten years as an emergency room physician before starting it and is board certified in family medicine. Hormone therapy is dosed from the lab work that anchors the membership, which is repeated twice a year. The same membership covers nutrition and training plans and GLP-1 weight medication. Members reach the physician in person or by video, and the first step is a free video call to see if it fits. Dr. Wenhold's own article on perimenopause says normal labs do not rule it out and calls hormone therapy the most effective treatment for hot flashes for suitable candidates.
