Hi, I’m Libra and I’m a licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, offering creative psychotherapy to individuals and couples who are navigating the ups and downs of being a human.
My role as therapist is that of compassionate witness and guide. I am a healer with heart-centered insight, a circle to hold your knots, where you can safely unravel all your layers, free of judgement and shame.
My education and training is in counseling psychology and expressive arts therapy, which uses creative modalities to access emotions, somatic memory, and unconscious narratives. The aim of expressive arts therapy is not to make something pretty, but to find what is true and real and alive. These modalities include visual art, dramatic role play, music, vocal toning, singing, ritual, active dreaming, and others. Read more about expressive arts here.
I use an integral approach blending neurobiology, heart-coherence, energy medicine, depth psychology, and dream wisdom to bridge mind, body, heart, and soul. We will work towards building resilience through emotional regulation, rewriting old narratives, cultivating personal spirituality for heart connection, and leaning into transitions as opportunities for sacred transformation.
Areas of focus:
Communication + Relationships
Breaking cycles/ Generational trauma
Grief and Loss
Codependency
Midlife shifts for women
Relating to loved ones with Dementia
Anxiety
Emotional Regulation
Dreamwork and Spirituality
During my clinical training at Elder Ashram, I had the privilege of working with elders living with dementia. This experience deeply shaped my ability to meet clients exactly where they are, fostering authentic connection and presence. Each week, I co-facilitated an arts group bearing witness to these wisdom keepers engage in profound self-reflection and discovery through expressive modalities.
Libra Kaplan, MA, AMFT #157382
Education:
Master of Arts, Counseling Psychology in Expressive Arts Therapy, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA.
Bachelor of Science in Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
Supervised by Laura Rose, LMFT #83808, CA
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
-The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.