Abby Caplin MD, MA

Mind-Body Medicine & Counseling
Healing is Always Possible

415.255.9981

Counseling for Chronic Illness

Abby Caplin, MD of San Francisco, CA, is a mind-body medicine physician, with over thirty years of training and experience. She works with people who are living with illness: including Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, asthma, cancer, scleroderma, psoriasis, arthritis, migraine headaches, chronic stress and anxiety, hypertension, sleep issues, chronic fatigue syndrome, Lyme disease, IBS and infertility.

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Testimonials

Dear Abby, Thank you for your gentle and beautiful help, and your wonderful guidance. You changed the course of my life. All my best to you.
Writing to Heal is a safe, deeply nourishing class to explore, learn, gain insight, be supported and enjoy accessing one’s creativity in the process.
This workshop taught me that with just a bit of insight, there was a wealth of knowledge about myself, and the ability to learn to heal myself was right there, under the surface, waiting to be released.

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Intimate “Writing to Heal” workshop now forming!

If your upcoming New Year’s resolution is to write about health issues that you have been facing, this small group will help you kick-start and/or deepen your writing process. You will also explore your experiences through writing, and find out how to use writing as a...

Writing to Heal class

I want to lift my face, smile against gravity, find wholeness in life’s marathon. B.D., “Writing to Heal” class, 5/11 (Words chosen from word grab bag to create the poem: facelift, marathon, gravity, wholeness, smile.) Expressive and narrative writing are one of the...

Chronic Illness and Exhaustion

My own energy varies from day to day, but with good amounts of consistent rest, well planned, I’m thankful to live a full and creative life. For many years, though, I functioned in a deficit range, leading to illness and exhaustion. I believed then that it was normal...