Resources

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

- Carl Jung

Attachment and Couples Work

  • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work — John M. Gottman & Nan Silver

  • Wired for Love — Stan Tatkin

  • Hold Me Tight — Sue Johnson

  • Come As You Are — Emily Nagoski

  • Come Together - Emily Nagoski

  • Mating in Captivity - Esther Perel

  • Attached — Amir Levine & Rachel Heller

  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents — Lindsay C. Gibson

  • It Didn't Start With You — Mark Wolynn

Books

BIPOC-Centred Healing & Decolonial Frameworks

  • Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice — Jennifer Mullan, PsyD

  • My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies — Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW

  • Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma — Dr. Mariel Buqué, PhD

  • Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy for BIPOC Communities: Decolonizing Mental Health — Dr. Pavna K. Sodhi

  • Rooted in Different Soils, Growing Together - A Couples Therapy Workbook, for Intercultural Couples — Diane Hua-Stewart

Workbooks - Individuals & Couples

  • Set Boundaries, Find Peace — Nedra Glover Tawwab

  • Mind Over Mood — Dennis Greenberger and Christine A. Padesky

  • The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook — Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood, and Jeffrey Brantley

  • The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole - Arielle Schwartz and Jim Knipe

  • The Attachment Theory Workbook: Powerful Tools to Promote Understanding, Increase Stability, and Build Lasting Relationships - Annie Chen

  • Rooted in Different Soils, Growing Together - A Couples Therapy Workbook, for Intercultural Couples — Diane Hua-Stewart

Understanding Trauma and the Nervous System

This video provides a basic introduction and overview of how trauma and chronic stress affects our nervous system and how those effects impact our health and well-being.

Videos

How Adverse Childhood Experiences Affects Us Across the Lifespan (ACE's)

Childhood trauma has lasting impacts on brain development due to ongoing stress from abuse, neglect, and parental issues, says pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris.

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Dr. Daniel Siegal describes his Hand Model of the Brain

Dr. Siegal describes how the brain stem and limbic system can override our prefrontal cortex, causing us to “flip our lid”. Learning the importance of naming it to tame it, when our part of our brain goes offline.