Dr. Donna Caplan, ND
Founder and Medical Director of Vermont Integrative Medicine

Treating the Whole Person

Dr. Donna Caplan is a licensed naturopathic physician who supports individuals in achieving the highest level of health, wellness, and peace of mind. Dr. Caplan also volunteers her services internationally in remote under-served areas.

Through a comprehensive evaluation of each person, Dr. Caplan utilizes both western and eastern medical diagnostic techniques. She understands that everyone has a unique set of circumstances, both internal and external, that impact his/her health; even thoughts and attitudes can profoundly affect one's well being.

With this view, she tailors treatment plans to support each individual, addressing underlying causes of disease and helping to restore the vital healing energy inherent in all.


Dr. Caplan with a young patient in Honduras

Healthcare to Honduras brochure

It is through identifying and eliminating the root of the problem, not merely the symptoms, that profound changes and transformations occur.

Natural Therapies:

Botanical Medicine:
Using medicinal plants and Chinese herbal formulas which have been used and perfected over thousands of years.

Clinical Nutrition: Using food and diet, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and other nutritional supplements to promote wellness.

Classical Homeopathy: Minute doses of a remedy are given to stimulate the body's innate healing response.

Physical & Energetic Medicine: Including acupuncture, massage and acupressure, hydrotherapy, exercise therapy, Qi Gong, guided imagery.

Natural Hormone Therapy

Dr. Caplan holds a doctorate of naturopathic medicine and natural obstetrical certification from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon, one of two nationally accredited naturopathic colleges in the United States. This doctorate was awarded after five years of rigorous study and extensive clinical training in the medical sciences, clinical and physical diagnosis, Chinese medicine, homeopathy, and natural therapeutics. Dr. Caplan has had extensive practice in family medicine, gynecology, and natural childbirth.

Dr. Caplan also studied Chinese medicine at the Oregon School of Oriental Medicine in Portland, Oregon and is certified in transformational hypnotherapy from Heartwood Institute in California.

Dr. Caplan received a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Vermont

Licensed in Vermont, Dr. Caplan has been practicing there since 1995. She is the founder and director of Vermont Integrative Medicine, a member of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians and the Vermont Association of Naturopathic Physicians.

Dr. Caplan also founded and directs the Gar Tibet Health Project and a health care project in a rural mountain community in Honduras.

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Dr. Caplan in Tibet with students after the May 2005 midwifery training course.

link to Gar Tibet Health Project

Video -- Bringing Midwifery and Health Care to Gargon, Tibet


Dr. Caplan with a patient in Honduras

Healthcare to Honduras brochure