Recommended Self-Help Books
Self-help books are an important component of mental health support and other evidence-based treatments for symptom management. Whether used during therapy sessions, or augmenting scheduled mental health visits, these reference books may be used by clients to rehearse new skills, practice coping strategies, and restructure destructive beliefs.
My Top Picks
The ADHD Tool kit
By J. Russell Ramsay & Anthony L. Rostain
Using CBT to Facilitate Coping Inside and Out
Healing ADD, Revised
By Dr. Daniel G. Amen
The Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the 7 Types of ADD
Don't Let Emotions Run Your Life
By Scott Spradlin
How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Put You in Control
Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts
By Martin N. Seif and Sally M. Winston
A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, Or Disturbing Thoughts
Anxiety & OCD Helps
Rewire your Anxious Brain
By: Catherine M. Pittman PhD, & Elizabeth M. Karle MLIS
How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety,
Panic, and Worry
Anxiety & Worry Workbook
By: David A. Clark; Aaron T. Beck
The Cognitive Behavioral Solution
OCD Workbook
By Scott Granet
The Complete OCD Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Free Yourself from Intrusive Thoughts and Compulsive Behaviors
Overcoming Intrusive Thoughts
By Martin N. Seif & Sally M. Winston
A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, Or Disturbing Thoughts
Brain Lock
By Jeffrey Swartz
Dr. Swartz presents a simple four-step method for overcoming OCD that is so effective, it's now used in academic treatment centers throughout the world.
Captain Snout
By Dr. Daniel Amen
Don't Let the Ants Steal Your Happiness, written by board certified child psychologist Dr. Daniel Amen, playfully encourages children to correct their negative thinking patterns in order to live happier and healthier lives.
Overcoming Anxiety, Worry, & Fear
By Dr. Gregory Jantz
Book offers a whole-person approach to coping with and eliminating anxiety. This compassionate combination of common sense, biblical wisdom, and therapeutic advice will help readers unchain themselves from constant worry
Yoga-CBT Workbook for Anxiety
By Juile Greiner-ferris & Manjit Khalsa
Book offers the first research-based model to combine the benefits of traditional psychological practice with the therapeutic benefits of Kundalini yoga.
ADHD/Inattention Issues
Healing ADD, Revised
By Dr. Daniel Amen
The Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the 7 Types of ADD
Change your Brain, Change Your Body
By Dr. Daniel Amen
A breakthrough approach to harnessing brain power to improve overall health and body function.
The ADHD Toolkit
By Russell Ramsey & Anthony L Rostein
Natural Relief for Adult ADHD
By Stephanie Moulton Sarkis
Complimentary Strategies for Increasing Focus, Attention, and
Substance Use Help
Control Alcohol
By Annie Grace
This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life
Recovery, Freedom from Addictions
By Russell Brand
The Cure for Alcoholism
By Roy Eskapa
Recovery
By Herbert Gravitz & Julie D Bowdon
A guilde for adult children of alcoholics
Concussions & Head Injury Healing
Concussion Rescue
By Dr. Kabran Chapek
A Comprehensive Program to Heal Traumatic Brain Injury
The Concussion Repair Manual
Dr. Dan Engle
A Practical Guide to Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries
Lost And Found
Elizabeth Peirce
Recovering Your Spirit After a Concussion
Living the Invisible Disability
Hannah Andrusky
Coping with Post Concussion Syndrome Traumatic Brain Injury & Depression
Sadness/Depression Helps
Boundaries
By Anne Katherine ·
An essential guide to setting and respecting boundaries is for anyone wanting to better understand themselves and others.
Making Amends
By AA Grapevine
Features 55 candid, firsthand stories from Grapevine magazine that reveal members’ personal experiences with Step Nine of the AA program that includes making direct amends, wherever possible, to whose we’ve harmed.
Food Mood Conneciton
By Uma Naidoo
It is well known that unhealthy eating patterns can cause mood swings. Blood sugar fluctuations and nutritional imbalances are often to blame. Without a steady source of fuel from the foods we eat, our mind and bodies don't function well.
You're not Crazy--You're Codependent
By Jeanette Menter
If your life has been affected by addiction (yours or someone else's), abuse, trauma or toxic shaming, you may also be struggling with another invisible problem - codependency.
Body Image & Eating Struggles
Eat your Feelings
By Lindsey Smith
The Food Mood Girl's Guide to Transforming Your Emotional Eating
Eating Disorder Recovery Handbook
By Nicola Davies & Emma Bacon
A comprehensive and practical tool to help not just the individual suffering with an eating disorder, but also families wanting to offer support.
Intuitive Eating
By Evelyn Tribole
& Elyse Resch ·
A revolutionary program that works. A go-to book on rebuilding a healthy body image and making peace with food.
goodbye ed, hello me
By Jenni Schaefer
Recover from your eating disorder & fall in love with life. Don't Battle an Eating Disorder Forever- Recover from It Completely
Trauma & Abuse
The Body Keeps Score
By Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
This book articulates new and better therapies for toxic stress based on a deep understanding of the effects of trauma on brain development and attachment systems.
Overcoming Trauma & PTSD
By Sheela Raja
There is no right or wrong way to react to trauma; but there are ways that you can heal from your experience, and uncover your own capacity for resilience, growth, and recovery.
Overcoming Trauma through Yoga
By David Emerson
Survivors of trauma—whether abuse, accidents, or war—can end up profoundly wounded, betrayed by their bodies that failed to get them to safety and that are a source of pain.
The DBT Skills Workbook for PTSD
By Matthew McKay, Jeffrey Brantley, & Jeffrey C. Wood
Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance.
Eating for your Mood & Health
Junk Foods & Junk Moods
Stop Craving & start living
Food Mood Connection
An indispensiable guild to the surprising foods that fight depression, anxiety, trauma, ocd, adhd, ...
10-Day Detox Diet Cookbook
By Dr. Mark Hyman
More than 150 recipes to help you lose weight and stay healthy for life.
Food & Mood Cookbook
Recipes for eating well and feeling your best.
Emotional Self-Regulation Skills
Self-Reg
Stop Craving & start living
The DBT Therapy Skills Workbook
By Matthew McKay, Jeffrey Wood, & Jeffrey Brantley
Self-regulation Interventions and Strategies
By Theresa Garland
Yoga-CBT Workbook for Anxiety
Total Relief for mind & body
Environmental Impact on Mental & Physical Health
EMF'd
By Dr. Joseph Mercola
WHAT YOU CAN'T SEE CAN HURT YOU. The dangers of electromagnetic fields are real. Reveals exactly what they are and how you can protect yourself.
Dirty Genes
By Dr. Ben Lynch
How leveraging specific lifestyle choices can help re-write our health destiny.”
Radiation Nation
Daniel T. DeBaun and Ryan P. DeBaun
The Complete Guide To EMF Safety. The Proven Health Risks of EMF& What to Do Protect Yourself & Family
The Mind-Gut Connection
By Emeran Mayer
How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health