Marla Leigh Caplan Psychotherapy for the Soul
Marla Leigh Caplan LMFT, personal therapist in San Francisco + Marin offering individual therapy for growth and discovery in Bay Area private practice

Set an Intention for Personal Growth & Self Discovery

Individual Therapy in San Francisco & Marin

Personal therapy for clients seeking discretion, depth & connection in a private space for self reflection & transformation.

A therapist who feels like your best kept secret.

Therapy for Personal Development & Self Awareness

A private sanctuary for personal transformation

Insight therapy for self-awareness, personal growth, and holistic integration with Marla Leigh Caplan, LMFT, San Francisco psychotherapist

Individual Therapy in the Bay Area — Intentionally Intimate & Highly Personalized

The consensus among my most loyal clients is that they don’t want to share me.
I often hear, “My friend, neighbor, or colleague really needs help, but — you’re my therapist.”
While I absolutely adore the sentiment, I want you to know that I am available to work with new clients.
I will extend to you the same privacy, confidentiality & exclusive care that others have come to cherish.

Deep Dive

A Rigorous Process of Self-Examination for Sensitive Souls

A structured, depth-oriented approach to long-term therapy —integrating insight & self awareness in an attuned, personal space.

Whether you’re seeking support with emotional regulation, understanding attachment patterns or exploring the symbolic richness of your inner landscape — this work is for those who want to understand themselves more fully.

This is therapy as excavation and awakening — A dynamic relational field where insight unfolds, integration happens, and something essential can emerge.

Offering in person therapy in San Francisco & Marin.
Online therapy throughout California.

Individual Therapy: Structured Inquiry

Prioritize yourself in a focused space for reflection & inquiry.

Option for twice-weekly intensive therapy

A 16 week bespoke healing journey that weaves together personal development, growth and discovery in the areas of identity, relationships, life transitions, meaning, and purpose.

Self reflection for people who think deeply and feel deeply. Who are psychologically minded, intellectually curious, constantly evolving — and also tender, searching, and in need of true emotional support.

For anyone doing the quiet, sacred work of becoming whole. This program is tailored to your story. You matter. ​

Gain a deeper understanding of your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors through personal inquiry.

Individual psychotherapy is an opportunity to:

So you have greater control over how you show up and direct your energy. Self-awareness is a powerful tool in designing the life you want and optimizing your place within it.

As we explore your history, memories, relationships, emotions, and dreams, your connection to yourself will grow and you will begin to bring more intention to the person you want to become.

This is an opportunity to take time to yourself to “do the work.”

Individual therapy involves showing up, getting really honest about who you are, how you feel, and what you think, and sharing whatever arises for you in the moment.

Over time, we’ll get to know each other, and as trust is built, the magic starts to happen. You’ll start to experience yourself the way I see you—and in the reflection of your beauty, your strength, your intelligence, and your resilience—change starts to happen.

Emotional Resilience

Resourcing with Coping Skills

People have come to see me for individual psychotherapy for many reasons over the years. Usually, a symptom arises, such as anxiety and depression, unhealthy coping mechanisms become apparent, as is the case for many individuals struggling with substance abuse  — or a crisis occurs, such as divorce or separation, death of a loved one or loss of a job, that forces some kind of reconciliation. The goal of individual therapy is to discover the underlying cause of your distress in order to facilitate lasting change.

Individuals healing the lasting imprint of violence or neglect may benefit from trauma therapy as part of their treatment plan.

Individual Therapy for the Most Important Relationship in your Life

Strengthen your Relationship to Self & Other

Two of the biggest reasons people seek my help are for problems in their:

Sorting through the complexity of these issues begins with self-understanding that is cultivated and refined during individual therapy.

Your relationship with yourself is the most important relationship you will have in your life—the longest lasting and the most influential in terms of how you feel and what you can achieve. All other relationships proceed along the terms you set with yourself.

Improving your self-confidence and bringing intention to the way you relate to yourself carries a far-reaching influence in terms of the constellation of relationships that define your life.

Bringing Intention to Inherited Core Beliefs

Are you in default mode — or taking a conscious stance?

Individual psychotherapy invites you to bring conscious awareness to inherited core beliefs, so you can determine whether they are in line with your intentions and the life you want to create.

Learning whether the messages you received as a child and during formative interactions are truly benefiting you is the first step to shaping a life and legacy that is authentically yours.

Join me for individual therapy to examine the beliefs, postures, and patterns shaping how you move through the world. Together, we’ll explore what’s inherited, what’s adaptive — and what’s yours to reclaim.

Online Therapy — San Francisco, Silicon Valley & the greater Bay Area

Holding space for your unfolding with depth & authenticity

As a depth therapist in the Bay Area, my job is to meet you with authenticity, curiosity, and empathy, invite you to immerse yourself in expanded states of awareness, and follow your inner wisdom to places of profound transformation.

It is a privilege to walk beside you in this unfolding, with presence shaped by a thousand joys and a thousand sorrows — each one offering a subtle, sacred passage to truth, growth, and vitality in the evolution of your becoming.

Whatever brings you to therapy — to find balance, peace, or joy; to heal, evolve, or create — you are welcome here with me, in the fullness of your being.

Let’s dive in. 
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Individual Therapy for Truth Seekers, Deep Thinkers & Meaning Makers.

Explore what lies beneath the surface.

Marla Leigh Caplan, California psychotherapist, offering holistic mind-body therapy in Marin and San Francisco