Resources

Self-Guided Therapy Books + Podcasts

• Brené Brown Podcast

• Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life- Steven Hayes, PhD

• Happiness Trap- Russ Harris

• Happy Ever After- Paul Dolan

• Radical Acceptance- Tara Brach, PhD

• Self-Therapy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Wholeness and Healing Your Inner Child Using IFS, A New, Cutting-Edge Psychotherapy, 2nd Edition – Jay Earley

• Essential Art Therapy Exercises: Effective Techniques to Manage Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD – Leah Guzman, ATR-BC

• Retelling the Stories of Our Lives: Everyday Narrative Therapy to Draw Inspiration and Transform Experience – David Denborough

• The Self Care Prescription: Powerful Solutions to Manage Stress, Reduce Anxiety, and Increase Wellbeing — Robyn Gobin, PhD

Racial Trauma and Racial Issues

• My Grandmother’s Hands- Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP

• How to be Antiracist- Ibram X. Kendi

• Dear White People – Netflix series

• When They See Us – Netflix miniseries

• 13th – Netflix documentary

Trauma

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma- Bessel van der Kolk, MD

• The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for PTSD: Practical Exercises for Overcoming Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – Kirby Reutter, PhD

Sex and Relationships

• Come as You Are- Emily Nagoski, PhD

• How to be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving- David Richo

• Hormonal: The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones- Martie Haselton, PhD

Gender and Sexuality

• Cinderella Ate My Daughter - Peggy Orenstein – Gender roles/norms

• You and Your Gender Identity: A guide to discovery – Dara Hoffman-Fox, LPC

• Disclosure – Netflix documentary – Transgender issues in Hollywood

• Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson – Netflix documentary – Biography of Transgender activist

• One Day at a Time – Netflix series – Nonbinary character

• Euphoria – HBO series – Teen gender and sexuality themes, OCD, grief, substance abuse and addiction