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LEARNING
Book Club
Reading is an important part of my work as a therapist. Continuing to learn, and gather new perspectives on topics relating to mental health is what I love about being a psychotherapist and allows me to find new ways to support my clients. Here are a list of books that I have enjoyed:
The Body Keeps the Score- Bessel van der Kolk
“As I often tell my students, the two most important phrases in therapy, as in yoga, are “Notice that” and “What happens next?” Once you start approaching your body with curiosity rather than with fear, everything shifts.”- Bessel van der Kolk
The Body Remembers- Babette Rothschild
'Resolving trauma implies releasing the defenses that have helped contain it. If one is still living in an unsafe or traumatic situation, this will not be possible or advisable. When this is the case, helping the client to be and/or feel safe must be the first step."-Babette Rothschild
Healing Trauma- Peter A. Levine
"What I do know is that we become traumatized when our ability to respond to a perceived threat is in some way overwhelmed. This inability to adequately respond can impact us in obvious ways, as well as ways that are subtle."-Peter A. Levine
Hold Me Tight- Dr. Sue Johnson
"The drama of love is all about this hunger for safe emotional connection, a survival imperative we experience from the cradle to the grave. Loving connection is the only safety nature ever offers us."-Dr. Sue Johnson
No Bad Parts- Richard C. Schwartz
“Some discoveries I made about parts: •Even the most destructive parts have protective intentions. •Parts are often frozen in past traumas when their extreme roles were needed. •When they trust it’s safe to step out of their roles, they are highly valuable to the system.-Richard C. Schwartz
Introduction to Internal Family Systems- Richard C. Swartz
“"Managers are the parts of you that want to control everything. They try to control your relationships and environment so you're never in a position to be humiliated, abandoned, rejected, attacked, or anything else unexpected and hurtful."-Richard C. Schwartz
Unmasking Autism-Devon Price
Autistic people are born with the mask of neurotypicality pressed against our faces. All people are assumed to think, socialize, feel, express emotion, process sensory information, and communicate in more or less the same ways. We’re all expected to play along with the rules of our home culture, and blend into it seamlessly. Those of us who need alternate tools for self-expression and self-understanding are denied them. Our first experience of ourselves as a person in the world, therefore, is one of being othered and confused. We only get the opportunity to take our masks off when we realize other ways of being exist.”-Devon Price
We're All Neurodiverse- Sonny Jane Wise
“Identifying as neurodivergent isn't just another label; it's also an identity, it's a reclamation, it's a song. When we call ourselves neurodivergent, we are reclaiming our differences that society calls abnormal or wrong. When we call ourselves neurodivergent, we are challenging you to consider what 'normal' actually means and perhaps even realize that maybe our normal isn't your normal.-Sonny Jane Wise
Self-Care for Autistic People- Dr. Megan Anna Neff
“If your distress is primarily driven by external stimuli, such as loud noises, bright lights, or crowded environments, it is likely a result of sensory overload. If your distress is primarily driven by internal thoughts, worries, or emotional triggers, it is indicative of anxiety or other emotion-based experiences.”- Dr. Megan Anna Neff
How to ADHD- Jessica McCabe
“Be yourself!…No, not like that! —SOCIETY”- Jessica McCabe
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents- Lindsay C. Gibson
"They act as though being a parent exempts them from respecting boundaries or being considerate."-Lindsay C. Gibson
Mindfulness for Beginners- Jon Kabat-Zinn
“If we are not careful, it is all too easy to fall into becoming more of a human doing than a human being, and forget who is doing all the doing, and why.”-Jon Kabat-Zinn
Creative Process in Gestalt Therapy- Joseph Zinker
"Reality always exists in the present. Even in terms of my most profound and clear awareness, memory, and anticipation, I have no way of living my own yesterdays and tomorrows. I am anchored to this moment - anchored with this body that is now resting on a chair, with the sound of windows rattling in the wind, with the visual experience of this page I am writing on, with the pulsing of my heart."-Joseph Zinker
The Satir Model- Virginia Satir, John Banmen, Jane Gerber, Maria Gomori
"For example, sometimes on first meeting, someone asks us, "Who are you?" We might give a response such as, "I'm an artist," or "I'm a doctor." To make the distinction between our roles and ourselves, "Am I doing that now?" To sharpen this distinction, we can practice expressing roles as verbs: "I am a teacher" thus becomes "I am teaching.""-Satir et al.
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