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Therapy Books for Mental Health Counselors and Therapists
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items Looking for the best therapy books to support your clients' mental health and personal growth. This curated list of book recommendations is designed to help you explore topics like anxiety, boundaries, trauma recovery, self-compassion, relationships,...
Great for learning about C-PTSD and post traumatic stress disorder and its impact on the nervous system and mental wellness.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma|Paperback
This is such an inspirational memoir that teaches about borderline personality disorder from a raw, real, and firsthand experience. Buddhism overlaps with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating|Paperback
I love Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and it's simple for new therapists to pick up. This is effective for anxiety, depression, trauma recovery, OCD, and relationship conflicts.
ACT Made Simple: An Easy-To-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy|Paperback
This is a good overview of BPD for family and loved ones of those with borderline personality disorder.
I Hate You--Don't Leave Me: Third Edition: Understanding the Borderline Personality|Paperback
This is my favorite anxiety book. It teaches techniques for blending Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to heal from worry in an unconventional way.
The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You Into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do about It, (Paperback)
This is such an honest, blunt, raw, and real way of talking about mental health issues.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - by Lori Gottlieb (Hardcover)
This is a fantastic introduction to IFS (Internal Family Systems) and a great guide to self acceptance and self love
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model (Paperback)
This is great for existential anxiety or learning about existential therapy. For clients struggling with their relationship with their church or other religious affiliation.
The Pursuit of Meaning (Paperback)
This is a great book for understanding marriages and relationships, and a fantastic tool for every couples counselor or LMFT
The Dr. Sue Johnson Collection Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, Book 1, (Hardcover)
When it's so hard to let go, but the relationship isn't reciprocal… and this is a pattern in your life
Let Them Theory - by Mel Robbins (Hardcover)
For those who are ready to stand on their own two feet and be loved for who they are, not what they do.
Codependent No More - by Melody Beattie (Paperback)
For when your schedule doesn't allow actual self-care but you can't afford to burn out again!
Mental Health Microgains - by Emma Cotterill & Tara Quinn-Cirillo (Paperback)
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