Transforming the face of psychiatry, Judith Orloff, MD, asserts that we are the keepers of an innate intuitive and empathic intelligence so perceptive that it can help us heal — and prevent illness. Yet these qualities, along with spirituality, are the very aspects of our wisdom that are often disenfranchised from conventional health care.
The Nation Magazine calls Dr. Orloff one of the “FRONTIER PEOPLE” in health who is unsatisfied with the existing order and pushes for an expansion of knowledge. The Los Angeles Times calls her “a prominent healer.”
Dr. Orloff is a New York Times bestselling author and is on the UCLA psychiatric clinical faculty, where she supervises psychiatric residents. She received her medical degree from the University of Southern California School of Medicine and completed her psychiatric residency at UCLA. Dr. Orloff comes from a lineage of twenty-five physicians in her family, including both parents. She specializes in treating empaths and sensitive people in her Los Angeles based practice and online internationally.
Dr. Orloff offers Empathy Training Programs to businesses and organizations such as Google Talks, TEDx, and Mass General Brigham Hospital. In these programs, she teaches empathic leadership skills along with other empathic tools to doctors and corporate teams.
Dr. Orloff has been called the “godmother of the empath movement.” Her book The Genius of Empathy (Foreword by the Dalai Lama) presents skills to develop the superpower of empathy in your daily life. Her book The Empath’s Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People (400K copies sold and mentioned in The New Yorker) is an invaluable resource to help all sensitive people. Dr. Orloff has also written Thriving as an Empath: 365 Days of Self-Care for Sensitive People and The Empath’s Empowerment Journal. Her endearing children’s book The Highly Sensitive Rabbit helps sensitive kids embrace their empathic gifts.
Her other books include Second Sight, Guide to Intuitive Healing. Positive Energy, Emotional Freedom, and The Power of Surrender.
Dr. Orloff’s work has been featured in the New York Times, O Magazine, Forbes, Newsweek, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, the New York Post, and Psychiatrist.com. She has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, PBS, BBC, and NPR. Dr. Orloff is also a blogger on Psychology Today and other platforms.
More information on Dr. Orloff’s Empathy Training Programs for the workplace.
TEDx Gateway Asia
Thank you for an outstanding session on the power of empathy for TEDx Gateway Asia. Your range and manner conveyed the importance and breadth of empathetic EQ and skills.
New England Journal of Medicine
Judith Orloff, a psychiatrist from UCLA, advises physicians on improving their intuitive powers. Her simple but powerful message is “Listen to your patients.”
USA Today
Dr. Orloff voices the message that intuition works as a potent therapeutic force that can help us lead smarter, saner lives. She is a serene maverick.
UCLA Medical Student
Thank you so much for mentoring me during that initial rocky phase of med school. You helped me find the strength to stick it out.
Next Ave (PBS site)
Dr. Judith Orloff is a model for balancing fierce left-brain intellect and right-brain compassion.
Psychology Today
Dr. Orloff is a pioneering therapist who counsels the highly empathic.
Dr. Orloff was voted “Most Inspirational Person” for the Readers Choice awards on About.com (a New York Times site.)
The Sunday Times Style in London calls Dr. Orloff “the positive energy guru.”