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My Master List of Wonderful Books for Many Readers, especially Mental Health Professionals.
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items I’ve compiled a list of my favorite books to read for fun, for work with clients, and a solid list of mental health reads for any mental health problem you may find challenges with.
As a therapist of 9 years many of these books are ones I personally...
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Mental Health Reads
Fiction Must-Reads
Workbooks for Therapists to Use with Clients
Mental Health Reads
A great read on how a therapist navigated her own personal therapy experience while guiding others to healing.
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist
A book that helps you understand what codependency is and isn’t. It gives you practical tips to help overcome codependency, but also mixes the authors own experiences in.
The New Codependency: Help & Guidance
A great resource for neurodivergent people who have challenges with their space and keeping it clean.
How to Keep House While Drowning: Gentle Cleaning
Yalom is a beautiful example of a therapist that really gets what it means to be in the “here and now” with a client. This is a great read for therapists, especially new ones!
The Gift of Therapy: Open Letter to Therapists
A great read for those who tend to fall for emotionally unavailable partners. This book has practical lists and charts to help you assess your relationships.
Mr Unavailable & the Fallback Girl - More detail - Baggage Reclaim
If you grew up with emotionally immature, unstable parents this book you might relate to this book and find helpful insights!
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
If you’re a couple looking for advice on how to communicate and connect better, this book is packed full of exercises to help you reconnect with your partner!
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
If you are in a non-monogamous relationship this book is for you. It dives into poly dynamics in-depth but also discusses attachment styles and trauma and how they affect relationships.
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma & Nonmonogamy
This memoir can be an emotional read but Author Stephanie Foo talks about how to heal from Complex trauma in a way that makes this book one of the better books out there on trauma.
What My Bones Know: Memoir of Healing
Fiction Must-Reads
A great story, an easy read, but also touches on big themes surrounding mental health.
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, Paperback
Workbooks for Therapists to Use with Clients
If you're a Mental Health Professional, these are my favorite workbooks to utilize with clients.
This is a wonderful resource for therapists who utilize DBT and work with neurodivergence. It's colorful, has great pictures, and helps clients easily digest DBT skills.
Neurodivergent Friendly DBT Skills Workbook
If you struggle with loving yourself then this workbook can help you identify what is and isn’t love, identify your blocks to self-love, and give you practical tips on what it means to love yourself.
The Self-Love Workbook: Boost Self-Esteem
This is a must have for any mental health health professionals who work with gender expansive clients. It covers all the bases of how to provide affirming care to gender expansive people.
A Clinician's Guide to Gender-Affirming Care
This an amazing companion to the The Self-Love Workbook but is specifically focused on the teenage population. If you work with teens with self-esteem issues this one is for you!
The Self-Love Workbook for Teens: Guide