Resources
For Your Learning
my favorite learning experiences
For Growth Outside of Therapy
Let’s get nerdy together and learn! I often use these resources with clients and want to provide them to you for your own learning.
*Please note that these are resources to support your wellness and learning and is not a replacements for psychotherapy or medical care. I am not affiliated with any of the following resources and do not receive compensation if you purchase any of them.*
Books
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook
This book is a seminal pairing with work to learn skills about communication and calming intense emotions.
Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life
This is a dense one! There’s wonderful theory and exercises that helps you get “unstuck” in your thoughts and make values-based actions.
Parenting a Troubled Teen
The title says it all! This is for you, frustrated, tired parents to help navigate difficult interactions with your teen.
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Learn from a guru of meditation about ways to apply the practice of mindfulness in every day life.
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of the Buddha
Tara Brach takes you through a very personal self-exploration to provide perspective and meditations to help us get unstuck and navigate emotional suffering.
The Confidence Gap
Read this one to assist with imposter syndrome, anxiety, and overcoming self-doubt.
Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
This is a wonderful read to reduce self-criticism and open your mind to inner kindness, connection to others and mindfulness.
The Happiness Trap
This is a wonderful foundation book emphasizing key characteristics of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. It will enhance mindfulness, acceptance of what we cannot control, and behavioral decisions in ways that improve your life.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.
Websites
Resources for caregivers, clients, individuals, and couples to manage specific concerns, such as supporting loved ones through disordered eating, ways to respond to anger, and working through emotion triggers.
Resources about PTSD, therapy options, and ways to support loved ones. *Although this site was developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, it is one of the most comprehensive and free sites that I’ve seen for learning about PTSD.
Advocacy-focused website to raise awareness, fund research, and support those affected by suicide.
To learn about all things sleep related, including dreams, specific exercises, and interaction with mood and executive functioning.
For information promoting psychological, emotional, and social wellness.
For all things grounded in compassion, happiness and altruism.
