Reading List

About Therapy

The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients, Irvin D. Yalom, (2011).

Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl, (1946).

Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Jung, (1989).

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?, Dr. Julie Smith, (2022).

Addiction

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Gabor Maté, (2008)

The Disease of Addiction: A Twenty-First Century Understanding and Beyond, Joseph Caravella, (2019).

Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change, Jeffrey Foote, Carrie Wilkens, Nicole Kosanke, & Stephanie Higgs, (2014).

Healing the Addicted Brain: The Revolutionary, Science-Based Addiction Recovery Program, Harold C. Urschel, (2009).

Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People (and Yours), Harold Johnson, (2016).

The Easy Way to Stop Drinking: A Revolutionary New Approach to Escaping from the Alcohol Trap, Allen Carr, (2005).

The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Non-Smokers, Allen Carr, (1985).

Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction, Judith Grisel, (2020).

Addiction and the Family

Addict In The Family: Stories of Loss, Hope, and Recovery, Beverly Conyers, (2003).

Journey of the Heroic Parent: Your Child’s Struggle & the Road Home, Brad M. Reedy, (2020).

The Audacity to be You: Learning to Love Your Horrible, Rotten Self, Brad M. Reedy, (2020).

What’s Wrong with My Teen?: Finding Answers to Teenage Addiction and Family Crisis, Susan Raphael, (2024).

Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids, Maia Szalavitz, (2006).

ADHD

Scattered Minds: A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder, Gabor Maté, (1999).

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with ADD from Childhood Through Adulthood, Edward Hallowell & John Ratey, (1992).

Adolescence

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, Jonathan Haidt, (2024).

The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self, Michael Easter, (2021).

Anxiety Disorders

Untangle Your Anxiety: A Guide to Overcoming an Anxiety Disorder, Joshua Fletcher & Dean Stott, (2021).

Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking is the Beginning & End of Suffering, Joseph Nguyen, (2022).

The Courage to Be Disliked, Fumitake Koga & Ichiro Kishimi, (2013).

Behaviour

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear, (2018).

Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits, James Prochaska, John Norcross, & Carlo DiClemente, (2007).

Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender, David R. Hawkins, (2012).

Codependency

Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself, Melody Beattie, (1986).

Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time, Melody Beattie, (1989).

The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency, Melody Beattie, (1990).

Codependent’s Guide to the Twelve Steps: How to Find the Right Program for You, Melody Beattie, (1992).

Conflict

The Art of War, Sun Tzu, (n.d.).

The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict, The Arbinger Institute, (2015).

Everything is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution, Diane Musho Hamilton, (2013).

Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection, Julie Schwartz Gottman & John Gottman, (2024).

Diagnostics

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, American Psychiatric Association, (2013).

International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Edition: Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders, World Health Organization, (1992).

Strengthening the DSM: Incorporating Resilience and Cultural Competence, Betty Garcia & Anne Petrovich, (2011).

Fiction

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy, (2019).

Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace, (1996).

Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs, (1959).

Cain’s Book, Alexander Trocchi, (1960).

Go Ask Alice, Beatrice Sparks, (1971).

Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby Jr., (1978).

Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh, (1993).

Grief

On Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, (1969).

The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion, (2005).

It’s OK That You’re NOT OK: Meeting Grief in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand, Megan Devine, (2017).

Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief, Joanne Cacciatore, (2017).

Longevity

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari, (2011).

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, Peter Attia, (2023).

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, (2021).

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life, Hector Garcia & Francesc Miralles, (2017).

Masculinity

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love, Bell Hooks, (2004).

King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine, Robert Moore & Douglas Gillette, (1991).

Iron John: A Book About Men, Roberty Bly, (1990).

For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity, Liz Plank, (2019).

The Descent of Man, Grayson Power, (2017).

Memoirs

Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction, David Sheff, (2009).

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, Nic Sheff, (2009).

Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs, Marc Lewis, (2012).

Drunk Mom: A Memoir, Jowita Bydlowska, (2014).

A Drinking Life: A Memoir, Pete Hamill, (1995).

The Reason You Walk: A Memoir, Wab Kinew, (2017).

The Lost Years: Surviving a Mother and Daughter's Worst Nightmare, Constance Curry & Kristina Wandzilak, (2006).

Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist’s Memoir, Irvin D. Yalom, (2019).

Scar Tissue, Anthony Kiedis & Larry Sloman, (2004).

Mindfulness

Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity, and Joy, Shauna Shapiro, (2022).

The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation, Thich Nhat Hanh, (1999).

You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment, Thich Nhat Hanh, (2009).

The Art of Living: A Guide to Minfulness, Growth, and Peace, Thich Nhat Hanh, (2023).

Modalities

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model, Richard C. Schwartz, (2021).

Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change and Grow, William R. Miller & Stephen Rollnick, (1991).

Attachment, John Bowlby, (1969).

Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think, Dennis Greenberger & Christine A. Padesky, (1995).

101 Trauma-Informed Interventions, Linda Curran, (2022).

Mood Disorders

Emotions: Mystery or Madness, Robert J. McAllister, (2007).

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, David D. Burns, (1980).

Overcoming Depression: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques, Paul Gilbert, (1997).

Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope, Johann Hari, (2018).

The Instinct to Heal: Curing Depression, Anxiety, and Stress, David Sercan-Schreiber, (2003).

Narcissism

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, Lindsay Gibson, (2015).

Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents, Lindsay Gibson, (2019).

Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, Lindsay Gibson, (2021).

Neuroscience

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, Norman Doidge, (2007).

The Brain’s Way of Healing: Stories of Remarkable Recoveries and Discoveries, Norman Doidge, (2016).

The DOSE Effect: Optimize Your Brain and Body by Boosting Your Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins, T.J. Power, (2025).

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, Anna Lembke, (2023).

The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live, Richard Davidson & Sharon Begley, (2012).

The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are, Daniel J. Siegel, (2001).

Perfectionism

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are, Brené Brown, (2010).

The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning, Ernest Kurtz & Katherine Ketcham, (1993).

The Anxious Perfectionist: How to Manage Perfectionism-Driven Anxiety, Clarissa W. Onge & Michael P. Twohig, (2022).

Personality Disorders

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has BPD, Paul T. Mason & Randi Kreger, (1998).

I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality, Hal Straus & Jerold J. Kreisman, (1989).

Needing to Know for Sure: A CBT Guide to Overcoming Compulsive Checking & Reassurance Seeking, Martin N. Seif & Sally M. Winston, (2019).

Shame & Guilt

Healing the Shame That Binds You, John Bradshaw, (2005).

The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves, Curt Thompson, (2015).

Uprooting Shame and Guilt: A Joutney to Healing Trauma and Freeing the Inner Child, Naomi Carr, (2021).

I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t), Brené Brown, (2007).

Sleep

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, Matthew Walker, (2017).

Sleep Smarter: A Longevity Book, Shawn Stevenson, (2016).

Social Equity

Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice: Building Transformative Politicized Social Work, Donna Baines, (2007).

Gender: Your Guide, Lee Airton, (2019).

Social Work

The Social Work Interview, Alfred Kadushin & Goldie Kadushin, (2013).

Social Work Practice: Integrating Concepts, Processes, and Skills, Marion Bogo, (2018).

Somatization

When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress, Gabor Maté, (2003).

In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, Peter Levine, (2010).

Body First Healing: Get Unstuck and Recover from Trauma with Somatic Healing, Brittany Piper, (2025).

The Wakeful Body: Somatic Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom, Willa Blythe Baker, (2021).

Spirituality

Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self, Anodea Judith, (2004).

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Eckhart Tolle, (1997).

Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing, Caroline Myss, (1997).

Why People Don’t Heal, and How They Can, Caroline Myss, (1998).

Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential, Caroline Myss, (2003).

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, Don Miguel Ruiz & Janet Mills, (2011).

Stoic Philosophy

Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, (n.d.).

Enchiridion, Epictetus, (n.d.).

Letters from a Stoic, Seneca, (n.d.).

The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph, Ryan Holiday, (2014).

Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent, Ryan Holiday, (2016).

Stillness is the Key: An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life, Ryan Holiday, (2019).

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living, Ryan Holiday, (2016).

Courage is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave, Ryan Holiday, (2021).

Discipline is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control, Ryan Holiday, (2022).

Right Thing, Right Now: Good Vaues, Good Character, Good Deeds, Ryan Holiday, (2024).

Transcendental Philosophy

Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1837).

Walden, Henry David Thoreau, (1854).

Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman, (1855).

Trauma

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, (2014).

It’s Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle, Hilary Jacobs Hendel, (2018).

Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Traumatized Children, Daniel A. Hughes, (2017).

Trauma and the 12-Steps: An Inclusive Guide to Enhancing Recovery, Jamie Marich, (2020).

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving, Pete Walker, (2013).

Trauma and Recovery, Judith Lewis Herman, (1992).

Workbooks

Cognitive Behavioural Workbook for Anxiety, William J. Knaus, (2014).

Cognitive Behavioural Workbook for Depression, William J. Knaus, (2012).

Cognitive Behavioural Workbook for Personality Disorders, Jeffrey C. Wood, (2010).

Dialectical Behavioural Skills Workbook, Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood, & Jeffrey Brantley, (2019).

Dialectical Behavioural Workbook for Anger, Alexander L. Chapman & Kim L. Gratz, (2015).

Dialectical Behavioural Workbook for Anxiety, Alexander L. Chapman, Kim L. Gratz, & Matthew T. Tull, (2011).

Dialectical Behavioural Workbook for Bipolar Disorder, Sheri van Dijk, (2009).

Dialectical Behavioural Workbook for Bulimia, Ellen Astrachan-Fletcher & Michael Maslar, (2009).

Dialectical Behavioural Workbook for Psychosis, Maggie Mullen, (2021).

Dialectical Behavioural Workbook for PTSD, Kirby Reutter, (2019).

The Internal Family Systems Workbook, Richard C. Schwartz, (2024).

Workbook for The Gifts of Imperfection, Brené Brown, (2020).

The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook, Randi Kreger & James Paul Shirley, (2002).

Don’t Try Harder, Try Different: A Workbook for Managing Anxiety and Stress, Patrick B. McGrath, (2006).

Ten Days to Self-Esteem, David D. Burns, (1999).

12-Step Recovery

Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W., (1939).

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Bill W., (1953).

Daily Reflections, AA World Services, (1990).

A New Pair of Glasses, Chuck C., (1984).

Back to Basics, Wally P., (2003).

Drop the Rock, Bill P., Todd W., & Sara S., (2005).

Not God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous, Ernest Kurtz, (1979).

The Path to Serenity, Robert Hemfelt, Richard Fowler, Frank Minirth, & Paul Meier, (1991).