BOOKS
Listed below are a few of the books that have influenced my practice. Perhaps you may find them useful too.
Trauma and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving — Pete Walker
The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk
Waking the Tiger – Peter Levine
Trauma and Recovery – Judith Herman
Attachment Theory
Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity for Love – Robert Karen
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love — Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
Mindfulness and Neuroscience
The Mindful Therapist — Daniel J. Siegel
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy — Lou Cozolino
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey — Jill Bolte Taylor
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself — Michael A. Singer
Full Catastrophe Living — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness — David A. Treleaven
Existential and Humanist Philosophy
Existential Psychotherapy — Irvin Yalom
Viktor Frankel — Man's Search for Meaning
Grief and Loss
It’s OK That You’re Not OK — Megan Devine
The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion
When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi
Adolescents and Family Therapy
The Adolescent Psyche – Richard Frankel
The Family Crucible – Augustus Napier and Carl Whitaker
Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain — Daniel Siegel
The Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence — Laurence Steinberg
Somatic Healing, Yoga, and Eastern Philosophy
The Breathing Book - Donna Farhi
The Heart of Yoga – Desikachar
An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life - The Dalai Lama
Think on These Things - Krishnamurti
Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life — Judith Lasater
Yoga for Depression — Amy Weintraub
Bringing Yoga to Life — Donna Farhi
Relationships and Couples Counseling
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert — John Gottman
Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships — David Schnarch
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
“Don’t You Know Who I Am?”: How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility — Ramani Durvasula
Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist — Ramani Durvasula
Healing the Adult Children of Narcissists — Shahida Arabi
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents — Lindsay C. Gibson
It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People — Ramani Durvasula
Cancer Support
Anticancer: A New Way of Life - David Servan-Schreiber
Creativity, Giftedness, High Sensitivity (HSP), and Neurodiversity
The War of Art — Steven Pressfield
Writing Down the Bones — Natalie Goldberg
The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide to Liberating Everyday Genius — Mary-Elaine Jabobsen
The Highly Sensitive Person — Elaine N. Aron
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity — Devon Price
Self Acceptance and Body Acceptance
The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love — Sonya Renee Taylor
Women’s Health
The Menopause Manifesto — Dr. Jen Gunter
Ecopsychology
Ecopsychology — Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind – Edited by Theodore Roszal, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner
Psychoneuroimmunology
Molecules of Emotion — Candace Pert
HOTLINES and HELPLINES
National Suicide Prevention Hotline: (800) 273-8255
Suicide Prevention Hotline (in Spanish): (800) 628-9454
Teen Line: (800) TLC-TEEN (800-852-8336 or text TEEN to 839863
National Sexual Assault Hotline: (800) 656-HOPE
Trevor Project Life Line (LGBTQ+ youth): (866) 488-7386
SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) National Helpline: (800) 662-HELP
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Health): (800) 950-NAMI
National Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-SAFE