Family Enhancement & Play Therapy Center

Dr. Caplin has a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Temple University. She is a Licensed Psychologist (1991) and Registered Play Therapy Supervisor. She has extensive training in Gestalt Therapy for children and adults, Child-Centered Play Therapy, Filial Play Therapy, and Sand Tray Therapy. She has been working with children and families since 1984 in a variety of clinical settings. Dr. Caplin has provided school based services, which included counseling elementary school children and consultation with school personnel. She has worked in a community mental health setting with racially and ethnically diverse children and teenagers. Also, she has worked in a group practice setting with individual adults, families and couples. Her wide range of experiences includes in-patient

treatment of adults with chronic mental illness and outpatient hospital work with dialysis patients. Dr. Caplin supervised psychology interns at Norristown State Hospital. She has taught classes for students in the Masters Program at the Counseling Psychology Department, Temple University and undergraduates in the Psychology Department at Ursinus College.

Dr. Caplin has been in private practice since 1991. She works with adults, children, and teenagers in individual, couple or family therapy. She specializes in disorders of childhood, parent education, survivors of neglect, physical and sexual abuse, affective disorders, treatment of interpersonal problems, chronic long-term illness, and issues specific to women, lesbians and gay men, adoption and foster care.

Dr. Caplin has presented workshops and provided trainings for clinicians and mental health providers in various settings including conventions (APA), conferences (Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Family Institute of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Psychological Association), agencies, and hospitals on various topics such as working with grieving children, children in foster care, attachment problems, self-esteem, sandtray therapy and Filial Therapy.

Dr. Caplin has extensive training in play therapy through the Family Enhancement and Play Therapy Center (Dr. Risë VanFleet), the Center for Relationship Enhancement (Dr. Barry Ginsberg), the Violet Oaklander Institute in California, and the Family and Play Therapy Center of Philadelphia (Dottie Higgins Klein).

Dr. Caplin is the co-founder of a private group practice, Cresheim Valley Psych Associates. She also provides treatment to children who have been sexually abused through a DHS contract with Spring Garden Psychological Associates. She is a consultant to Children’s Crisis Treatment Center in Philadelphia and co-leads Filial Program Groups for child abuse prevention – funded through the Philadelphia Department of Human Services, the Parenting Collaborative.