Deirdre Orceyre

Dr. Deirdre Orceyre has spent more than 20 years doing what integrative medicine does best: looking at the whole person, asking why, and staying until she finds an answer. As a board-certified naturopathic physician and licensed acupuncturist, she brings together two complete medical traditions — Western naturopathic medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine — and deploys them in service of whatever her patient actually needs.

Patients consistently describe her as someone who truly listens — not just to the chief complaint, but to all the pieces of the story that other appointments don't have time for. She sees herself not as the healer, but as a guide and coach: the patient is always the true healer. Her job is to understand what's out of balance, illuminate the path back toward it, and walk alongside them as they find their way there.

Deirdre Orceyre's path into medicine was always going to be integrative — she just didn't have the word for it yet. What drew her was the same thing that still drives her today: a belief that the human body is intelligible, that symptoms are signals worth following, and that healing is rarely as simple as matching a diagnosis to a drug.

She pursued her training at the National University of Natural Medicine, one of the country's leading institutions in natural health education, graduating cum laude in 2004 with a simultaneous Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine and a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine. That dual degree — rare even among integrative practitioners — gave her fluency in two complete medical systems, and the ability to move fluidly between them depending on what a patient needs.

After graduation, she completed a two-year full-time residency in internal naturopathic medicine, with focused rotations in women's health, endocrinology, and integrative cancer care. It was there that she developed the clinical depth in oncology support that has since become one of the hallmarks of her practice. She arrived at GWCIM shortly after and has been here ever since — building relationships with patients that span years, sometimes decades, and earning a reputation as one of the most thorough and caring clinicians in the integrative medicine world.

Teaching has always been part of her calling too. Her faculty role at Georgetown University and her work at the GW Breast Center reflect a commitment not just to the patients in front of her, but to the broader project of moving medicine toward a more whole-person model.

Dr. Orceyre is one of GWCIM's longest-serving and most experienced providers, having been part of the center since its early years. Her presence is woven into the fabric of what GWCIM is — a place where patients with complex, chronic, or hard-to-explain conditions finally find someone who will put the pieces together.

She sees patients both in-person and via telemedicine at GWCIM, offering naturopathic consultations and acupuncture treatments. As part of GWCIM's senior acupuncture team — which collectively brings over 70 years of combined experience — she is the practitioner patients turn to when they want both the depth of naturopathic medicine and the precision of Traditional Chinese Medicine in a single provider.

Twice monthly, she also works at the GW Breast Center, and she teaches Integrative Medicine at Georgetown University — bringing the same depth and rigor she brings to patient care into the next generation of clinicians.

Dr. Orceyre welcomes patients with all conditions, with a particular strength in integrative oncology, women's health, endocrinology, and complex chronic illness. Her approach is always to determine the root causes of imbalance — and then to build a thoughtful, personalized plan using the full toolkit available to her.

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