Books I Love to Recommend

Here are some of my favorite books that I frequently recommend to clients!

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• Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself - Nedra Glover Tawwab

  • This book is a must read for anyone who needs guidance with boundaries - personally, professionally, or in a number of contexts. This book is easily digestible, humors, and very informative.

  • Workbook / Card Deck

• It’s Not You - Ramani Durvasula

  • Dr. Durvasula dives into Narcissistic Abuse from a survivor’s perspective, offering practical tools and considerations for clients. A must read anyone who has experienced this form of abuse.

• Hardwiring Happiness - Rick Hanson

  • An incredible book focused on brain science, savoring positive experiences, and evolutionary explanations for anxiety and related concerns. Dr. Hanson provides easy to digest metaphors alongside clinical language, and I would recommend this book to anybody seeking more joy in their lives.

• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents - Lindsay C. Gibson

  • This book is practical in its exploration of child/parent dynamics and how these shape us throughout our life. Offering insight, reflection prompts, and easy to understand language, it is highly recommended.

  • Guided Journal

• The Ethical Slut, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love - Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easton

  • This book offers an overview to a variety of relationship structures and includes many relevant points for reflection. Covering topics such as jealousy/compersion, navigation of boundaries, and offering tools for healthy communication and emotional regulation - this book can be a tool for any relationship style.

• It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle - Mark Wolynn

  • An exploration of intergenerational trauma and how it affects us in the present day. Provides a great overview of trauma and family systems in general.

  • Workbook

• No Bad Parts / You Are the One You Have Been Waiting For / Introduction to Internal Family Systems - Richard Schwartz

  • Offering an overview of IFS in various forms, these books are insightful for a wide range of audiences. “No Bad Parts” is easily digestible and provides an overview of IFS, while You are the One You Have Been Waiting For provides IFS information as applied to couples.

  • IFS workbook

• The DBT Skills Workbook - McKay, Wood, Brantley

  • Using the skills designed by Marsha Linehan, this workbook provides practical exercises and explanations for DBT skills in each of the four pillars: Mindfulness, Emotional Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Distress Tolerance

• Practicing Mindfulness - Matthew Sockolov

  • Includes 75 mindfulness exercises for practice in a variety of contexts!

• Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

  • A book that was required reading for my grad school cohort and has stuck with me since. Frankl offers a recount of his time in a concentration camp and uses his experience to discuss the importance of creating meaning in every day encounters. A great book exploring philosophical and existential concerns.

• Unmasking Autism - Devon Price

  • Written by an autistic clinician, this book is a powerful exploration of neurodiversity and the overall concept of masking and related domains.

• Come As You Are - Emily Nagoski

  • A book dedicated to exploration of desire, intimacy, and mindfulness as related to women’s sexuality. Blending research with easily understood metaphors, this book is a must read!

  • Workbook

• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work - John Gottman & Nan Silver

  • From renowned researcher and couples counselor John Gottman, an easy to understand, practical guide to sustaining a healthy marriage.

Please check back for updates to this list! I only recommend books I have actually read, and my pile of books is to read is constantly growing and evolving, so this list will likely update over time! I am also always open to book recommendations :))