Books I Often Recommend in Therapy
Here are some of my most favorite books to recommend to clients. Whether you're navigating anxiety, trauma, relationship challenges, or simply seeking deeper self-understanding, these books offer insight, compassion, and practical support.
While they’re not a replacement for therapy, they can be a powerful companion—helping you feel seen, supported, and a little less alone on your journey.
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Strengthen and deepen your relationships with revelatory practical exercises, seven profound conversations, and sage advice from “the best couple’s therapist in the world”
Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
This informative guide helps you identify and heal from childhood emotional neglect so you can be more connected and emotionally present in your life.
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
A powerful, simple five-step program, based on twenty years of innovative research, for greatly improving all of the relationships in your life—with spouses and lovers, children, siblings, and even your colleagues at work.
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts
Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind―and healing the many parts that make you who you are.
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and be stewards of the stories that we hear. This is the framework for meaningful connection.
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a roadmap to minimizing stress, managing emotions, and living more joyfully.
Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships
The bestselling author of Hold Me Tight presents a revolutionary new understanding of why and how we love, based on cutting-edge research
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep--Love
Discover how an understanding of adult attachment—the most advanced relationship science in existence today—can help us find and sustain love
After the Affair, Third Edition: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful
After the Affair is the only book to offer proven strategies for surviving the crisis and rebuilding the relationship.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved
In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect, and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood.
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
Most of us feel overstimulated every once in a while, but for the highly sensitive person, it’s a way of life. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Elaine Aron, a highly sensitive person herself, shows you how to identify this trait in yourself and make the most of it in everyday situations.
The Gifts of Imperfection
A guide to embracing imperfection through ten guideposts, teaching how to cultivate courage, compassion, and connection while accepting oneself as worthy of love and belonging.
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
A practical guide to assertively communicating needs, saying "no," and establishing healthy boundaries for better relationships and well-being.