He received psychiatric training at Yale University School of Medicine. He has written nineteen books which have sold more than eight and a half million copies and have been translated into thirty-four languages.

Dr. Bloomfield's bestsellers, Making Peace with Your Parents and Making Peace with Yourself, introduced personal and family peacemaking to millions of people. How to Survive the Loss of a Love and How to Heal Depression have become self-help classics. Meditation: Discovering Inner Energy and Overcoming Stress spent six month on the New York Times bestseller list. In his New York Times bestseller, Hypericum, St. John's Wort, & Depression, and his Healing Anxiety Naturally, were catalysts in the herbal medicine revolution. Dr. Bloomfield's current national best seller, "making peace with you live" is the "making peace with you life program and series".

Dr. Bloomfield has appeared on national television shows including 20/20, Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America and CNN. His work has been featured in Time, Newsweek, People, U.S. News and World Report, People, Forbes, Cosmopolitan, Prevention, Ladies Home Journal, New Woman, American Health, First for Women, New Age Journal, USA Today, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, the Boston Globe, and many other magazines and newspapers.

The recipient of the Theodore Geisel "Best of the Best" Book Award, Dr. Bloomfield has also been honored with the Medical Self-Care magazine Book of the Year Award, the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Psychological-Educator, and the American Holistic Health Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.