About the Facilitator

Hannah Kaplan-Reimer (she/her), M.A., BCBA, LBA, TOH, began working with children and adults with diverse neurotypes in 1999 during her years as a student at Vassar College. She became intensely interested in compassion as a practice after attending the Stanford Compassion Cultivation Training series in 2014 (twice, because she roped her husband into going with her the second time). This was followed by multiple other compassion training courses including those that bridge the work of Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (CFACT) as well as the Compassionate Mind Training facilitator series with Dr. Chris Irons and Dr. Charlie Heriot-Maitland.

Hannah is an affiliate of the Louisiana Contextual Science Research Group (LCSRG) led by Dr. Emily Sandoz. Together, Dr. Sandoz, Hannah, their colleagues, and a wide cohort of behavior analytic practitioners edited 25 articles on compassion in behavior analysis in a Special Issue in Behavior Analysis and Practice.

Hannah continues to work on cultivating compassion in her own life as a continually evolving process. She is passionate about integrating her varying professional and personal lenses in a way that facilitates accessibility of compassionate practices to diverse perspectives.