Book Recommendations

A note about these recommendations

These recommendations are my own and reflect books I’ve read, found interesting, or have returned to over time. I may occasionally share some of these books with clients when I feel they may be relevant to their work in therapy.

Including a book here does not mean that I endorse every idea, perspective, or recommendation within it, nor do I prescribe these books or their approaches to my clients. This page is simply a collection of resources that I’ve found useful, thought-provoking, or worth revisiting.

This is a resource page, not a substitute for therapy or individualized clinical advice. The list is updated and added to frequently, so check back from time to time for new recommendations.

• Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love – Dr. Sue Johnson
• The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity – Esther Perel
• Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence – Esther Perel
• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work – Dr. John Gottman and Nan Silver
• Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love – Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman
• Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay – Mira Kirshenbaum
• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love – Amir Levine & Rachel Heller

• Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be – Dr. Becky Kennedy
• Free-Range Kids: How Parents and Teachers Can Give Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry – Lenore Skenazy
• The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children – Dr. Shefali Tsabary
• How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2–7 – Joanna Faber & Julie King
• To Have and to Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma – Molly Millwood

• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook — Bruce D. Perry
• Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation — Janina Fisher
• What My Bones Know: A Memoir from Healing from Complex Trauma — Stephanie Foo
• What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience & Healing — Oprah Winfrey & Bruce D. Perry
• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model — Richard C. Schwartz

• It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief & Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand — Megan Devine
• The Grief Recovery Handbook: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce & Other Losses — John W. James & Russell Friedman
• I’m Glad My Mom Died — Jennette McCurdy
• From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death — Caitlin Doughty

• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents – Lindsay C. Gibson
• Attached – Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
• Are You Mad at Me? How to Stop Focusing on What Others Think and Start Living for You – Meg Josephson
• But What Will People Say? Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love and Family Between Cultures – Sahaj Kaur Kholi

• Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image: Learning to Love Ourselves as We Are – Dr. Hillary L. McBride
• Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – Charlie Mackesy

• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction – Gabor Maté
• Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence – Anna Lembke
• ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with ADHD – Edward M. Hallowell & John J. Ratey
• Atomic Habits – James Clear

• 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act – Bob Joseph
• The Reason You Walk: A Memoir – Wab Kinew
• From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way – Jesse Thistle
• Ally Is a Verb: A Guide to Reconciliation in Canada – Rose LeMay