Bibliotherapy Library
Access to information can play a large role in trying out new strategies and fostering more adaptive behaviors. Often, better self-understanding is an invaluable step toward self-compassion and healing.
To help foster meaningful change, clients and parents of minor-clients have access to borrowing the below titles.
Maple Seed Counseling’s
Books for Adults
Bargh, John. Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do (2017)
Bradshaw, John. Healing the Shame that Binds You (1988, 2005)
Brown, Brene. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (2021)
Doyle, Glennon. Untamed (2020)
Faber, Adele and Mazlish, Elaine. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (1990, 2012).
Frankl, Victor E. Man’s Search for Meaning. (2006)
Gibson, Lindsay. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents. (2015)
Gottman, John. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (1999, 2015)
Herman, Judith. Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence—From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (1997)
Huber, Cheri. There is Nothing Wrong With You: Going Beyond Self-Hate (2001)
Hughes, Daniel A. Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Traumatized Children. (2019)
Ikpi, Bassey. I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying: Essays (2019)
Jamison, Kay Redfield. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness. (1995)
Johnson, Sue. Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love. (2008)
Katehakis, Alexandra and Bliss, Tom. Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence. (2014)
Koker, Robert. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (2020)
Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth. The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying (1998)
Levine, Noah. Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction (2014)
Levine, Peter. In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness (2010)
Levine, Peter. Trauma and Memory (2015)
McConnell, Susan. Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy (2020)
McDonald, Mary Catherine. Unbroken: The Trauma Response is Never Wrong (2023)
Mellody, Pia. Facing Codependence (1989)
Napier, Augustus Y. and Whitaker, Carl A. The Family Crucible: The Intense Experience of Family Therapy (1978, 2017)
Pang, Camilla. Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships. (2021)
Paulsen, Sandra. Looking Through the Eyes of Trauma and Dissociation: An Illustrated Guide for EMDR Therapists and Clients. (2009).
Perel, Esther. Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence (2006)
Perel, Esther. The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity (2017)
Shapiro, Francine. Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy. (2012)
Siegel, Daniel J. Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain. (2013, 2015)
Siegel, Daniel J and Bryson, Tina Payne. The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind (2011)
Tolle, Eckhart. The Power of Now (1999)
Van der Kolk, Bessel. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (2014)
Whitfield, Charles L. Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (1987)
Woititz, Janet G. Adult Children of Alcoholics. (1990)
Zipurksy, Alisa. Healing Honestly: The Messy and Magnificent Path to Overcoming Self-Blame and Self-Shame (2023)
Books for Teens
Arroll, Meg. Tiny Traumas: When You Don’t Know What’s Wrong, but Nothing Feels Quite Right. (2024)
Pang, Camilla. Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships. (2021)
Siegel, Daniel J. Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain. (2013, 2015)
Toceps, Bianca. But you don't look autistic at all. (2020)
Books for Children
Curtis, Jamie Lee. Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day (1998)
Curtis, Jamie Lee. When I was Little: A Four-Year-Old’s Memoir of Her Youth (1993)
Dewdney, Anna. Llama, Llama Holiday Drama (2010)
Ehrlin, Carl-Johan Forssen. The Little Elephant Who Wants to Fall Asleep (2016)
Garcia, Gabi. Listening to My Body (2017)
Gates, Mariam. Good Night Yoga: A Pose-by-Pose Bedtime Story (2015)
Gomez, Ana M. and Paulsen, Sandra. All the Colors of Me: My First Book About Dissociation (2016)
Harris, Robbie. It’s Not the Stork!: A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends (2008)
Harris, Robbie. It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, Gender, and Sexual Health (2021) — age 10+
Martin, Emily Winfield. The Wonderful Things You Will Be (2015)
Reynolds, Peter H. ish (2004)
Wolf, Ferida and Savitz, Harriet May. Is a Worry Worrying You? (2005, 2007)
Yamada, Kobi. Maybe: A Story About the Endless Potential in All of Us (2019)