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Essential Reads for Growing Therapists ✨
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items As therapists, we’re always evolving every book we read adds another layer to our understanding of trauma, resilience, and healing. If you’re building your trauma informed lens and more! and want to deepen your skills, these are my go to recommendati...
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Understanding Our Children
EMDR 📖
As an EMDR therapist, I recommended the book Getting Past Your Past by Francine Shapiro to the client as a psychoeducational tool. The book is written in an accessible format and supports the client in understanding how unprocessed traumatic memories...
Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques ...
For EMDR-trained clinicians (or those curious about it), this book is full of creative and practical ways to adapt trauma treatment for children with complex histories.
EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children: Complex Trauma, Attachment, and Dissociation|Paperback
TRAUMA 📖
I love “The Body Keeps the Score” because it’s trauma-informed and offers such powerful insight into how our mental health deeply affects our physical well-being.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“What Happened to You” is a powerful read that shifts the question from “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?”, offering a compassionate, trauma-informed lens on healing. It beautifully explores how early experiences shape our brains, be...
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Real client stories that show how trauma impacts development and how connection heals. As a clinician this book has given me so many perspectives.
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing|Paperback
My current read! This book explores the lasting impact of being raised by parents who were unavailable, self-centered, or emotionally immature. It helps readers understand patterns of unmet emotional needs and how these early experiences shape adult ...
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents|Paperback
: I love this book because it reads like a memoir but teaches like a clinical text. It reminds us of the privilege and responsibility of walking alongside clients in their healing journey.
Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery|Paperback
Stephanie Foo’s powerful memoir about growing up with trauma and learning to heal from complex PTSD. A story of survival, resilience, and hope!
What My Bones Know - by Stephanie Foo (Paperback)
Understanding Our Children
This book reframes “difficult” child behaviors as trauma driven responses. Instead of relying on punishment or rigid control, it offers a love and safety based approach rooted in trauma-informed care. It blends attachment theory, neuroscience, and pr...
Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love Based Approach to Helping Children With Severe Behaviors|eBook
A good book to have because it completely changes the way we think about communication with kids who struggle socially. It’s practical, easy to apply in sessions, and also a great tool to share with caregivers. It gives you concrete language shifts t...
Declarative Language Handbook|Paperback