Recommended Books
Here is a short list of my favorite books that have influenced how I work. They have shaped both my personal and professional journey. I invite you to explore them during our time together and afterward to see how they might help you too.
General help/Starting out in therapy:
Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Act of Living by Frank Tallis
The Choice by Edith Egar
Basic Freud by Michael Kahn
Sex and sexual idendity
Unforbidden Pleasures by Adam Philips
The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy
Want by Gillian Anderson
Mating in Captivity by Ester Perel
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Neurodiversity
No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz
Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté
The Disintegrating Self by Phil Mollon
Recovery from trauma/regulating nervous system
The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Death/mortality
Staring At The Sun by Irvin Yalom
Feminism
The Women Who Run With Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés - also very good for reclamation of creativity/sexuality and spirituality
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir