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In My Therapy Office
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items As an AuDHD, nonbinary, fat, chronically ill, PMH-C psychologist who works primarily with current and future healthcare providers (health sciences higher education), lgbtqia2s+ folx, ND folx, chronically ill/disabled folx, and with reporductive healt...
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Client Books & Workbooks
Books that I recommend for clients, encourage them to read or use between sessions, and/or great bibliotherapy recommendations!
Great resource and workbook from the founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help clients meet, understand, and heal the different parts of themselves. Makes it much easier to understand and work through than the denser written books.
Internal Family Systems Workbook: Heal Your Parts
As a psychologist who works primarily with current and future healthcare providers (most of whom come from historically excluded backgrounds and identities), burnout is huge. This book teaches relevant and useful skills that folx can incorporate into...
Mindful Self-Compassion for Burnout: Healing Tools
This is a great inclusive, evidence-guided handbook for queer men (both cis and trans) that includes body image concerns, family rejection and discord, homo-/bi-/transphobia, and much more!
Mental Health Guide for Cis & Trans Queer Guys
Ground in IFS parts work, this workbook is super helpful for queer and trans folx who are working to heal from the pain of rejection, identifying what matters, setting boundaries, and honoring the coping mechanisms that have helped you to survive to ...
All Parts Welcome: Queer & Trans IFS Workbook
Such a good reference that is affirming and stresses the importance of binding for those who struggle with chest dysphoria while also wanting to increase comfort and health in the process.
Healthy Chest Binding for Trans & Non-Binary
Love this polyvagal card deck from Deb Dana - great for explaining concepts, demonstrating things in session, and great for clients to grab when they need some assistance with nervous system regulation.
Polyvagal Card Deck: 58 Practices for Calm
Card deck with 75 practical, evidence-guided embodiment exercises that are great to try in session or for clients to take and practice with between sessions.
Vagus Nerve Deck: 75 Exercises to Reset
A lot of my clients have resonated with this book - one in a series - regarding how to recognize and heal from distant, rejecting, or self-involved parents. Fair warning - many folx have to put this book down or stop the audiobook recording and get s...
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Such an important and helpful book for all folx, but especially for women, femme folx, and incorporates a lot of systems thinking and cultural lenses. I recommend this book to most of my clients!
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Seriously one of the best books on women's sexuality, and the discussion of the dual control model of sexual excitation (e.g. the gas pedal and the breaks) is GAME-CHANGING for so many of the folx I work with!
Come As You Are: Revised & Updated Science
The companion workbook to the book that is one of my most used resources for sexuality and sex therapy based work. Super practical, approachable, grounded in research, and easily applicable to everyday life!
Come as You Are Workbook: Guide to Sex Science
This guided journal companion to the ACoEIP book is so helpful for folx who need a bit more guidance to the reflections based on the material in the book. This guided journal is nicely structured!
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents Journal
A great, structured, guided way to reflect on the cycle of overwhelm and exhaustion and take steps toward positive change.
The Burnout Workbook: Advice & Exercises
Boundaries are one of the buzzwords that people know they need to have but often don't know exactly what they are or how to have them - this is a great workbook with practical exercises to get you there!
The Set Boundaries Workbook: Practical Exercises
Nedra Glover Tawwab's fabulous book that helps folx learn exactly what boundaries are, how to know when you need them, and how to set/enforce them!
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: Reclaim Yourself
Another great resource toward helping you to identify the dysfunctional family patterns and choosing how you want to move forward in the best way possible for you.
Drama Free: Guide to Managing Family Relationships
A good resource for women specifically on self love, self esteem, and navigating the difficulties of being a woman in today's world.
Self-Love Workbook for Women: Build Compassion
Dr. Emily Nagoski has expanded on her amazing book about women's sexuality - telling us more about the science (and art) of creating lasting sexual relationships!
Come Together: Science & Art of Lasting Sex
Great resource from Jamie Marich - a mental health clinician and trainer with lived experience with dissociative conditions. Great for clients and clinicians alike!
Dissociation Made Simple: Stigma-Free Guide
Activities to repair, heal, and restore your relationship after trust has been broken - written by a therapist using evidence-based therapy skills and techniques.
Rebuilding Trust: Therapy Techniques & Activities
A guided workbook for couples looking to heal after infidelity.
Infidelity Recovery Workbook: Tools & Exercises
A fabulous book from Esther Perel that takes what you might "know" and think about infidelity and challenges it. Great for clients and therapists alike!
The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity Guide
This is such a valueable resource for couples of all kinds - especially those with kids - who struggle to balance the the mental load and division of labor. This book and system provides an easy to follow framework that makes it much simpler to do!
Fair Play: Reese's Book Club - Game-Changing Solution
The illustrations make this follow up to Russ Harris's The Happiness Trap much easier to understand, follow, and put into practice - especially for ND folx who struggle to read and comprehend fully text-dense books.
The Illustrated Happiness Trap: Stop Struggling
Lots of adorable and fun coloring pages, practical advice, and space for reflection and journaling!
The Trans Self-Care Workbook: Coloring & Journal
Bright, colorful, fun, and gentle exercises, activities, and affirmations to help folx love themselves, their bodies, their lives, and support themselves through self love and self care.
Self-Love Rainbow Workbook: Guide to Self-Care
An identity-affirming workbook for LGBTQIA2S+ folx of all ages to help explore identities, healing, belonging, and lived experience.
Exploring My Identity: LGBTQPIA2S+ Workbook
Helpful for clients and therapists alike - with easily accessible and specific strategies and activities that people can do to work through the trauma and impacts that last for years.
Transforming The Living Legacy of Trauma Workbook
Workbook that is a companion to Dr. Sue Johnson's book Hold Me Tight - easy to follow exercises, conversation prompts, and activities to help with intimacy and a couple's bond.
The Hold Me Tight Workbook: Couple's Guide
This illustrated guide to IFS makes an easier resource than a text heavy book - especially for ND, dyslexic, and other clients with difficulties processing written language.
We All Have Parts: Illustrated Guide to Healing Trauma
Super helpful for clients and therapists - not a lot of books or resources actually touch on or discuss rage (not the same as anger).
Healing Rage: Women Making Inner Peace Possible
Sometimes it is difficult for autistic adults to figure out how to navigate relationships - friendships, romantic relationships, dating, etc. This book is a super helpful handbook to all things autistic relationships
Autism Relationships Handbook: Thrive in Love
Great book for trans, nonbinary, gender diverse, and questioning individuals with practical guidance on how to experience and explore your gender in ways based in joy - not dysphoria and pathology!
Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly & Reclaim Joy
The sequel to Dr. Gibson's Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, and it gives the reader a lot of practical tools to establish boundaries and focus on managing the interactions with their parents.
Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents
A workbook companion to Come As You Are that helps you apply the concepts and lessons learned in the book and walks you through it.
Come as You Are Workbook: Guide to Sex Science
Therapist Books & Training
Resources for therapists to reach, watch, listen to, etc. for future learning.
Probably the most comprehensive coaching book specifically for working with ADHDers - balances core areas of struggle with concrete advice for the actual how to work through the coaching in a step-by-step fashion.
ADHD Coaching: Guide for Mental Health Pros
Great resource for EMDR practitioners
EMDR Toolbox: Theory & Treatment of Complex PTSD
Dr. Jamie Marich provides a practical guide for assessment, treatment, and interpersonal work with trauma survivors that melds clinical work, research, and more.
Trauma Made Simple: Assessment & Treatment
Simple to follow, easy to reach, guide that includes 4 approachable ways to use EMDR with your clients.
EMDR Made Simple: 4 Approaches for Clients
Foundational EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Therapy text from the creator Dr. Francine Shapiro.
EMDR Therapy: Principles, Protocols & Procedures
This is a great resource for parents, therapists, health professionals, teachers, and more written by autistic women and gender diverse folx on how to best support autistic girls and gender diverse youth.
Supporting Autistic Girls & Gender Diverse Youth
This is a great resource for anyone interested in and/or doing sex therapy since most of sex therapy research and strategies are geared toward white cis het couples.
Intersectional Sex Therapy: Indigenous & POC
Essential reading for any white therapist - and a reminder - it's not enough to not be racist - in order to actually be making things better you have to actually be engaged in anti-racist activities.
Anti-Racist Psychotherapy: Healing Racial Trauma
Concrete, accessible strategies, tools, and policies to help teachers, schools, counselors, etc. support and affirm gender-expansive students so they feel safe, included, and affirmed at school.
Gender-Inclusive Schools: Support Gender-Expansive Students
Essential reading for any psychologist on the colonial and historical trauma of the mental health system.
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression & Trauma
A guide for clinicians and therapists who want to be able to engage in sex therapy, sexuality, and sexual pleasure work with their trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse clients.
Trans Sex
Medical & Healthcare Trainee Resources
I'm a psychologist who provides therapy for students of the schools of medicine, nursing, health professions, as well as the residents and fellows at an academic medical center. These are some of the specific resources I find helpful for these folx s...
So much of the effort to this point has been about how to get into medical school, not about how to succeed as a human and a student/future physician once you get there. As a psychologist at a medical school, this is one of those books that I have ou...
I Wish I Read This Book Before Medical School
Even though this book was published 20 years ago - it's a good jumping off point. It also provides a good starting point for discussion on how things have changed since their mentors, educators, and other physicians they know where in school.
Med School Confidential: Guide by Students
For Use in Therapy
Tools and resources for use during sessions
These double-sided, dry erase charts are super helpful to use in session as they have easy to understand, visual breakdowns of the concepts, there is a side clients see and the side the therapist sees (with more explanation and tips), and after writi...
IFS Flip Chart: Psychoeducational Healing Tool
These therapy charts are super helpful, and this polyvagal one from Deb Dana gets used a lot!
Polyvagal Flip Chart: Science of Safety
Love this interactive tool to use in couples therapy sessions that has 24 experiential exercises to guide your couples through.
The Couples Therapy Flip Chart: Psychoeducational Tool
Clients love being able to doodle during sessions and this gives them a great way to harness that while still allowing them to focus.
The Reverse Coloring Book™: Colors, You Draw!
This flip chart is incredibly useful when talking through the who, what, when, where, why, and how of boundaries with clients in sessions. Complete it with a dry erase pen and they can take a picture to keep for reference!
The Boundaries Flip Chart: Set Limits & Reclaim Worth
Setting boundaries is a skill - one that can be developed through practice. This card deck helps spark conversations, develop boundary-setting statements, and gives real-world examples to talk through with your clients in session.
The Set Boundaries Deck: Tool for Healthy Limits
Deck of 58 cards with practices for recovering from trauma - because trauma impacts all the aspects of one's life.
Living Legacy of Trauma Card Deck: 58 Practices
These double-sided flip charts are super helpful to use in sessions, as there are charts to help you guide clients through the different phases of EMDR, and you can use a dry erase marker on the pages, take pictures, and then easily clean them up!
The EMDR Flip Chart: Tool for Trauma Healing
Easy to use visuals for use with clients in session - reusable, grounds the conversation, and great for psychoeducation.
Living Legacy of Trauma Flip Chart Tool
Card deck that make it easy to incorporate as a visual, illustrative resource for somatic practices broken down into sixteen different themed areas.
Body of Knowledge Card Deck: Sensorimotor Practices
We love this set of Little Spot Emotion plushies - and these plus the Little Spot Feeling plushies set is perfect in our calm down corner for them to help pick out their emotion - even when they don't feel like talking about it!
A Little SPOT of Emotion 8 Plush Toys Set