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Books I recommend as a therapist
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items Bibliotherapy is one of my things!! These are books that I regularly recommend to clients based on what they are journeying through.
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Books that Help you Sort Through Life Issues
Couples Counseling
For counselors in training
Books that Help you Sort Through Life Issues
Books on various topics that I recommend often to clients
This book helped me as a therapist and became a book that I recommend to clients all of the time. It is an amazing tool to help understand how we bring things from childhood into our relationships.
You Are the One You've Been Waiting For
I JUST picked this book up out of my stash today. I have been dealing with some things in my mind and my spirit kept being led back to this book. I was intrigued as soon as I started to read.
Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others
I read this for personal reasons first and then recommend it to clients that are working on relationships. It helps you understand yourself and your needs but also those of your partner. Get two copies and work through it with your partner.
I Want This to Work: An Inclusive Guide
A great read for Couples
The Love Prescription: 7 Days to Intimacy
An excellent read
Daring Greatly: Courage to Be Vulnerable
I recommend this book to therapist and clients.
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist
Deals with inner child and has great exercises to help you love your inner child, reclaim, and champion that part of you that needs you the most.
Homecoming: Reclaiming Your Inner Child
This book is next on my list. I would love to use this one for a Women's group
The Let Them Theory: Life-Changing Tool
A classic read for therapists and clients on trauma. It helps you understand how your body holds on to trauma.
The Body Keeps the Score: Healing Trauma
This book helped me understand how I was trying to measure up to the standards of the world and not my own.
Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing Lies
This book is for those who feel they are faking it to make it in life. I recommend it to allow clients to see a different outlook to living wholeheartedly.
The Gifts of Imperfection: 10th Anniversary Edition
Want to get out of your own way? Check out this book. It helps you identify all the ways you hold yourself back. It has a workbook as well.
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage
Read this if you want to learn to be unapologetically you
Girl, Stop Apologizing: Shame-Free Plan
This is the workbook that accompanies the book. Purchase both and sit down and spend some time with YOURSELF😍
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage
This book has so many rave reviews. If you have or want to understand trauma, try this!
What My Bones Know: Memoir of Healing
Here is another good Trauma book. Talks about reparenting and inner child issues. Good read.
How to Do the Work: Recognize Patterns & Heal
If you struggle with setting boundaries, get this book. It helps you understand types of boundaries and show up for yourself.
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: Reclaim Yourself
This book helps you understand how the body stores trauma. Trauma such as racial trauma gets passed down through generations. This helps you understand some of that.
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma
Couples Counseling
Here is another gem that I recommend for couples. It teaches you how to have conversations that you may not know how to have with your partner.
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for Love
I do a workshop using this book and it is great for couples
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
As a Gottman-trained therapist, this is a book that o recommend to my couples. I also do the workshop titled after this book.
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
For counselors in training
This is a great book for new therapists
The Gift of Therapy: Open Letter to Therapists
This is a book that I recommend to my supervises. Sometimes it’s hard to know what to say. This helps.
Mastering the Clinical Conversation