Here are a selection of books which some clients and colleagues have found helpful when trying to understand their difficulties:
The Body Keeps The Score – Bessel Van der Kolk
Reasons to Stay Alive – Matt Haig
Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure – Robert de Board
Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving – Julia Samuel
The Queer Mental Health Workbook – Dr Brendan J Dunlop
DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets – Marsha M. Linehan
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves – Stephen Grosz
Life Isn’t Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between – Meg-John Barker and Alex Iantaffi
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing – Dr Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey
Therapists in training may also find the following texts useful while working with clients:
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma – Bessel van der Kolk
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation – Janina Fisher
DBT® Skills Training Manual, Second Edition – Marsha M. Linehan
The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment – Babette Rothschild
The Body Remembers: Volume 2: Revolutionizing Trauma Treatment – Babette Rothschild
The Therapeutic Relationship – Petruska Clarkson
On Becoming a Person – Carl Rogers
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, Second Edition – by Zindel V. Segal, J. Mark G. Williams & John D. Teasdale
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, Third Edition: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures – Francine Shapiro
Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma – Laurel Parnell
