Resources
The following videos are for clients to review skills we've practiced. They are not for medical or mental health advice. Please contact your provider for health advice.
My Therapy Workbook
A Guide Back to You: A workbook for exploring who you are and staying true to yourself
Podcasts I have done that may support you
Creativity, Stress and the Body
Beyond Talk Therapy, Bringing Purpose and Meaning into Every Session
Finding and Re-finding Yourself
The Following Books and Apps Have Been Helpful to My Clients.
Aging
On the Brink of Everything; Grace, Gravity & Getting Old
By Parker Palmer
The Alcoholic Family
Another Chance: Hope and Health for the Alcoholic Family
by Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse
Anxiety Workbooks
For kids:
I Bet I Won't Fret: A Workbook to Help Children with Generalized Anxiety Disorder
by Timothy A. Sisemore PhD
The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids: Help for Children to Cope with Stress, Anxiety, and Transitions
by Matthew McKay PhD and Robin K. Sprague
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
by Edmund Bourne PhD
For adults:
The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
by Matthew McKay and Martha Davis
Anger Workbooks for Children
I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Mad: A Workbook to Help Kids Control Their Anger
by Lawrence E. Shapiro PhD and Zack Pelta-Heller
How to Take the Grrrr Out of Anger (Laugh & Learn)
by Elizabeth Verdick and Marjorie Lisovskis
Attachment and Dating
Attahced Are you Anxious, Avoidant or Secure? How the science of adult attachment can help you find – and keep – love
by Dr. Amir Levine and Rachel Heller, MA
Deeper Dating - How to Drop the Games of Seduction and Discover the Power of Intimacy
Ken Page
Borderline Personality Disorder
Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship
2004
by Christine Ann Lawson
Bullying
Stand Up for Yourself & Your Friends: Dealing with Bullies & Bossiness and Finding a Better Way
by Patti Kelley Criswell and Angela Martini
Queen Bees and Wannabees
by Rosalind Wiseman
Children’s sexual behaviors; what should I be concerned about and how do I respond?
Understanding Children's Sexual Behavior - What's Natural and Healthy - Updated and Expanded 2015
by Allison Joe and Toni Cavanagh Johnson Ph.D.
Coping with Chronic Illness, Cancer, TBI, Body issues
Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
by Rachel Naomi Remen
My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging
by Rachel Naomi Remen
A Quest for Tears: Surviving Traumatic Brain Injury
by Sean Dwyer
The Opposite of Certainty
by Janine Urbaniak Reid
The Body is Not an Apology
Sonya Renee Taylor
Epigenetics
It Didn’t Start with You. How inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how to end the cycle
By Mark Wolynn
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Grief
The Grief Recovery Handbook, 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses including Health, Career, and Faith
byJohn James and Russel Friedman
How to Survive the Loss of a Love
by Melba Colgrove PHD, Harold Bloomfirld, MD, Peter McWilliams
Always Too Soon, Voices of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both Parents
by Allison Gilbert with Christina Baker Kline
Passed and Present, Keeping Memories of Loved Ones Alive
Allison Gilbert
The Threshold Between Loss and Revelation
by Rashani Rea
Introverts
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Jan 29, 2013
by Susan Cain
Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverted Kids
May 2, 2017
by Susan Cain and Gregory Mone
Journals
Teen:
Chill & Spill: A Place to Put it Down & Work it Out
by Steffanie Lorig and Jeanean Jacobs
Adult:
Cheaper than Therapy: A Guided Journal Paperback
Mindfulness/Pain Management
The Mindful Way Workbook: An 8-Week Program to Free Yourself from Depression and Emotional Distress
by John D. Teasdale PhD and J. Mark G. Williams DPhil
Freedom From Pain
by Peter Levine and Maggie Phillips
There’s Nothing Wrong With You, Going Beyond Self-Hate
By Cheri Huber
The Places that Scare You; A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
Pema Chodron
Meditations on Everything Under the Sun; The Dance of Imagination, Intuition, and Mindfulness
By Margo Adair
The Deepest Acceptance
By Jeff Foster
Phone App: Headspace https://www.headspace.com/
Couples:
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
by John Gottman PhD and Nan Silver
Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships
by Sue Johnson
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind - and Keep - Love
Amir Levine MD and Rachel Heller MA
The Couples Comfort Book
By Jennifer Louden
Parenting
Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D & Gabor Maté, M.D
Parenting from the Inside Out
By Daniel Siegel, MD, Mary Hartzell, MEd
The Explosive Child
By Ross Green
Sensory Overload
Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight
By Sharon Heller, PhD
Spirituality and Creativity as a Healing Aid (drawn from various traditions)
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
By Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
Radical Acceptance, Embracing Your Life with the Heart of the Buddah
By Tara Brach, Phd
Addiction and Grace
By Gerald G May, MD
Praying in Color
By Sybil MacBeth
The Woman’s Comfort Book
By Jennifer Louden
After the Ecstacy, the Laundry
By Jack Kornfield
Working with the Dream Body
By Anrnie Mindell, Phd
The Heartmath Solution
By Coc Childre and Howard Martin
Helaling Myths, Healing Magic
By Donald Eptein
A Womans Journey to God; Finding the Feminine Path
By Joan Borysenko
Secondary Trauma
Trauma Stewardship. An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
By Laura VanDenoot LIpsky
Trauma
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Jul 7, 1997
by Peter A. Levine and Ann Frederick
Vulnerability
Daring Greatly
By Brene Brown, Phd
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