Hi, I’m Libra and I’m a licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (# 157382), offering creative psychotherapy to individuals and couples who are navigating the ups and downs of being 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. 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. 

I earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master’s in Counseling Psychology with a focus in Expressive Arts Therapy, both from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA. 

Areas of focus:

  • Communication + Relationships

  • Breaking cycles/ Generational trauma

  • Midlife shifts for women

  • Relating to loved ones with Dementia

  • Anxiety

  • Grief and Loss

  • Codependency

  • 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.

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Libra Kaplan, MA, AMFT #157382

A little about me:

I am a dreamer, an artist, a sensitive, joyful soul. Creative expression is my driving force.

I was an interior designer for nearly two decades, eventually running my own business. A growing desire to help others on a deeper, more heartfelt level, combined with the Covid shutdown gave me the space and the courage to change course at mid-life and go back to school.

Although I had done a couple years of college way back when, I had never finished. Becoming a therapist meant first I had to complete my undergrad, which I did in May 2022. And then I kept right on going. In May 2025, I graduated from CIIS with a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology in Expressive Arts Therapy

I grew up between Maui and Los Angeles, toggling between parents, and coping amidst adverse childhood trauma. The creative arts have helped me to heal, grow, and transform at a core level and I believe in their power. It's why I am here.