Marla Caplan(She/Her/Hers)

Marla Leigh Caplan, LMFT, is a psychotherapist in San Francisco specializing in trauma, relationships, and addiction for empaths, artists, and creatives.

A psychodynamic therapist, Marla Leigh Caplan, LMFT uses an insight-oriented approach to help highly sensitive people understand the deeper roots of their emotional pain. She works with complex PTSD, anxiety, relationship challenges, and addictive behaviors by exploring unconscious patterns, early relational dynamics, and inner conflicts that shape present-day experience.

Therapy sessions are both analytical and experiential, attuned to each client’s strengths and growing edges. Her style is spacious, intuitive, and relational. Together, you may explore your history, relationships, dreams, or what’s surfacing in your body — with curiosity, care, and presence.

For clients coping with trauma, anxiety, and depression, Marla integrates somatic therapy to support nervous system regulation and embodied healing. This approach allows clients to move beyond insight alone, creating the safety needed to process difficult emotional experiences and foster lasting transformation.

If you're in crisis, sessions may be more structured and directive, with a focus on safety, stability, and containment.

Marla offers in-person individual therapy, couples therapy, and family counseling in San Francisco, as well as online therapy throughout Marin County, the Bay Area, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles. Her approach to relationship therapy is systems-oriented, often beginning with individual sessions to build understanding and trust before moving into joint work.