Suggested Reading

Resources to Support Your Mental Health & Wellness.

These resources are curated to support you alongside clinical care. Everyone’s journey is unique — please feel free to ask for personalized recommendations during your treatment.

Trauma & PTSD

Book cover of 'The Body Keeps the Score' by Bessel van der Kolk, featuring a stylized black silhouette of a person with yellow star-like shapes and a red dot on the chest, against a blue background.

The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk, MD

A groundbreaking exploration of how trauma reshapes the body and mind — and pathways to healing.

Book cover titled 'Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma' by Peter A. Levine with Ann Frederick, featuring an illustration of two tigers lying in a forest setting.

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma — Peter Levine, PhD

Introduces Somatic Experiencing and how the body plays a role in trauma recovery.

Book cover titled 'The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture' by Gabor Maté, MD with Daniel Maté. The background has vibrant pink, orange, and yellow colors with abstract shapes.

The Myth of Normal — Gabor Mate, MD & Daniel Mate

Trauma, illness, and healing in a toxic culture.

Book cover titled 'It Didn't Start With You' by Mark Wolynn, featuring a silhouette of a human head with a DNA strand integrated into the design.

It Didn’t Start with You — Mark Wolynn

Explores how inherited family trauma shapes our lives — and how to break the cycle.

Anxiety

Book cover titled 'The Mindful Way Through Anxiety' by Susan M. Orsillo and Lizabeth Roemer, featuring a red flower against a black background.

The Mindful Way Through Anxiety — Susan M. Orsillo and Lizabeth Roemer

Mindfulness-based techniques for managing worry and fear.

Cover of a book titled 'Rewire Your Anxious Brain' with silhouettes of a person and interconnected gears and thought bubbles labeled fear, anxiety, worry, and panic.

Rewire Your Anxious Brain — Catherine M. Pittman, PhD, and Elizabeth M. Karle

Understanding the neuroscience behind anxiety and practical tools to change it.

ADHD

Book cover of 'Scattered Minds' by Gabor Maté, showing a colorful watercolor splash in pink, orange, yellow, purple, and green, with the title and author's name.

 Scattered Minds – Gabor Mate, M.D.

This book explores the root causes of ADHD through a compassionate, trauma-informed lens.

Cover of a book titled "Driven to Distraction." It features a red, white, light blue, and black color scheme with bold text, including the authors' names, Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey.

Driven to Distraction - Dr. Edward M. Hallowell & Dr. John J. Ratey

A classic—written by two doctors with ADHD. It offers real-life stories, compassionate explanations, and helps normalize the experience.

Book cover titled 'Delivered from Distraction' with subtitle 'Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder' by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., and John J. Ratey, M.D. The cover has a cream background with multicolored geometric rectangles and a green label in the center.

 Delivered from Distraction (sequel to above)

Updated strategies, medication guidance, and lifestyle approaches. Written in short, digestible chapters.

Book cover for "ADHD 2.0" by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., and John J. Ratey, M.D., featuring the title in large colorful letters and the subtitle about science and strategies for thriving with distraction.

 ADHD 2.0 - Dr. Edward M. Hallowell & Dr. John J. Ratey

Newer science, brain-friendly strategies, and a more hopeful tone.

Book cover titled "Your Brain's Not Broken" by Tamara Rosier, PhD, with a stylized brain illustration and blue-green watercolor background.

 Your Brain’s Not Broken - Tamara Rosier, PhD

Compassionate, relatable, and packed with strategies to help adults understand emotional regulation and executive functioning.

Depression

Cover of a book titled "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" by David D. Burns, M.D. It highlights that the book is a national bestseller with over four million copies in print and describes it as a clinically proven drug-free treatment for depression. The cover has a yellow background with the title in large blue text and author's name near the top in black. A rainbow stripe runs horizontally across the lower part of the cover.

 Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy — David D. Burns, MD

A classic guide using cognitive behavioral techniques to manage depression.

Book cover titled 'The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness' by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Jon Kabat-Zinn, with an image of a bowl of water with floating flowers and green leaves.

 The Mindful Way Through Depression — Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Jon Kabat-Zinn

How mindfulness can interrupt the downward spiral of depression.

Internal Family Systems - IFS

Book cover titled "No Bad Parts" by Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, with a subtitle about healing trauma and restoring wholeness using the internal family systems model. The cover features an abstract line drawing of a face intertwined with three colored shapes: yellow, teal, and orange.

 No Bad Parts — Richard C. Schwartz, PhD

An introduction to IFS therapy: healing inner conflicts through self-compassion.

Addiction & Recovery

Book cover titled 'In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction' by Gabor Maté, MD, featuring a red, ribbon-like illustration resembling a ghostly figure.

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts — Gabor Maté, MD

A compassionate look at the roots of addiction and pathways to healing.

Book cover featuring a portrait of Russell Brand at the bottom, with the title 'Recovery' and the subtitle 'Freedom from Our Addictions' in large text, surrounded by words related to addiction and social issues in the background.

Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions — Russell Brand

A fresh, relatable take on the 12-step approach.

Self-Compassion & Emotional Regulation

Book cover titled 'Self-Compassion' by Kristin Neff, Ph.D. with a quote at the top, a pink and beige background, an image of a bee and a yellow flower on sandy ground at the bottom.

Self-Compassion — Kristin Neff, PhD

Learn how kindness toward yourself can change how you cope and heal.

Book cover titled 'Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha' by Tara Brach, Ph.D., features a white flower cradled in blue hands on a white background with a red label that says 'Updated Edition'.

Radical Acceptance — Tara Brach, PhD

Embrace yourself and your life fully with mindfulness and compassion.

Inspirational Reading

Book cover titled "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl, with a multicolored abstract background and a gold badge indicating over 16 million copies sold.

Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl

A timeless exploration of meaning and resilience even in the face of suffering.