Oona Caplan, LCSW-R, is a graduate of the New York University Silver School of Social Work, where she earned her Master of Social Work. She has worked for over 12 years at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC as part of the inpatient child psychiatry division specializing in emotional distress caused by trauma in early childhood and adolescents. During that time, she has also served as a teaching assistant at the Icahn School of Medicine training medical students in how psycho-social factors affect the outcome of psychiatric illness.

Mrs. Caplan has also provided psychotherapy services to children, adolescents & adults on an outpatient basis & is certified in DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy).

Mrs. Caplan has extensive experience in managing and stabilizing acute conditions. She has developed a nationwide network of behavioral and therapeutic resources that are used to guide families through short and long-term recovery. Prior to her time at Mount Sinai, she participated in an HIV pediatric grant for children and mothers at Bronx Lebanon Hospital. She also spent time on the neuro psychiatry team at the New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center.