RESOURCES WE USE IN THERAPY
Personal Development and Healing
In the New York Times bestseller, Boundaries, Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend help you learn when to say “yes” and know how to say “no” in order to take control of your life.
Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend, counselors and authors of the award-winning bestseller Boundaries, show couples how to apply the 10 laws of boundaries that can make a real difference in relationships. They help husbands and wives understand the friction points or serious hurts and betrayals in their marriage – and move beyond them to the mutual care, respect, affirmation, and intimacy they both long for.
Know thyself with the Enneagram
If you read one book on the Enneagram, read this one. Not only will you learn more about yourself, but you will also start to see the world through other people’s eyes, understanding how and why people think, feel, and act the way they do.
A comprehensive resource from Beatrice Chestnut, PhD, that traces the development of personality as it relates to the nine types of the Enneagram.
Chris Heuertz develops an in-depth map of the soul based on the Enneagram. Reading this book will help you identify the nine ways we often get stuck believing self-defeating lies. Heuertz will then lead you to discover the nine ways we can find our way home, that is, to our True Self.
Books on Relationships and Attachment
A child’s bonding process with his or her caregivers profoundly affects how challenging maintaining successful relationships will be throughout life. Clinton and Sibcy are able to explain the intricacies of early attachment styles and how this could influence our perspectives on connecting with partners, children, friends, and even God.
In this easy-to-read introduction to the concepts of Emotionally Focused Therapy, Dr Sue Johnson teaches that the way to save and enrich a relationship is to reestablish safe emotional connection and preserve the attachment bond. There are compelling stories throughout the book that will leave you feeling heard and understood.
The workbook to accompany Hold Me Tight listed above.
This workbook is intended for use with couples who want to enhance their emotional connection or overcome their relationship distress. It is recommended for use with couples pursuing Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). It closely follows the course of treatment and is designed so that clinicians can easily integrate guided reading and reflections into the therapeutic process.
The new editions are brought together in the For Couples Only boxed set, providing the perfect resource to help you understand relationship-changing insights about the woman or man in your life.
Workbooks for Adolescents and Parents
An outgrowth of the popular Coping Cat Program by Philip C. Kendall, the C.A.T. Project provides sixteen sessions for individual cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) for anxiety in older adolescents (14-17 years of age) using a workbook format.
Empirically-supported CBT to reduce anxious distress in youth. This newest edition is a revision of the original Coping Cat Workbook by Philip Kendall that has been in use since 1992. Sixteen therapy sessions promote coping skills for dealing with anxiety
The Parent Companion is a resource for parents or caregivers of youth participating in the Coping Cat Program for anxiety. Directed to parents or caregivers, the Parent Companion provides information about the nature of anxiety, about its treatment, and about the ways that parents may be involved in their child s treatment.
Understand your Child Better
The authors explain—and make accessible—the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures. Complete with age-appropriate strategies for dealing with day-to-day struggles and illustrations that will help you explain these concepts to your child, The Whole-Brain Child shows you how to cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development so that your children can lead balanced, meaningful, and connected lives.
If you have children from adoption or simply want to learn more about how childhood traumas can rewire the brain, this might be the most important book you could read. The authors masterfully introduce you to the concepts that form the basis of the Trust Based Relational approach to connecting with children from “hard places”. They also teach strategies to help a child actually rewire the connections formed in trauma through nurturing, playful, and structured engagement.
Defining the true meaning of the “d” word (to instruct, not to shout or reprimand), the authors explain how to reach your child, redirect emotions, and turn a meltdown into an opportunity for growth. By doing so, the cycle of negative behavior (and punishment) is essentially brought to a halt, as problem solving becomes a win/win situation