Hephzibah Kaplan is a UK-trained art therapist, artist and transpersonal psychotherapy supervisor. She co-founded the London Art Therapy Centre in 2010 and is its director as well as senior art therapist, supervisor and educator. She has had a broad and eclectic training in clinical approaches as well as in the various arts including art, drama, dance, clowning, Constellation Family work, and Autogenic Training – incorporating these modalities in her work with adults and children. Her clinical influences include Joseph H. Berke (psychoanalytic supervision), Frank Farrelly (founder of Provocative Therapy), Dr. John Rowan (Transpersonal psychotherapist) and Shaun McNiff (Professor of Expressive Arts Therapy).
Hephzibah has published well-received papers in art therapy journals and books and is a regular national and international teacher and workshop facilitator.
Hephzibah has integrated the various creative and clinical disciplines to co-create Almost Happy. Brian and Hephzibah Kaplan offer experiential and training workshops for health professionals where humour and reverse psychology are introduced as powerful tools for recovery and well-being. Almost Happy buttons act as powerful adjuncts in seminars and groups where reverse psychology and humour are used to provoke the laughter of liberation and inspiration for meaningful change.