Helpful

Resources

Here are some links to recommended reading, preferred providers, and agencies that I’ve found to be helpful for my clients. If you would like to learn about becoming a preferred provider, please send me a message.

My comprehensive must-have library

As a clinician, coach, parent or client you have probably bought numerous books in an effort to get the best information possible to help your client, self, or loved one.

But the amount of money and time spent doesn’t always yield the desired results.

Over my many years of working with families and clients who have endured trauma in some form or another and/ or who wrestle with intense emotional sensitivity. I’ve pared down my extensive library to those resources that I turn to over and over again.

Yes, there are many other good publications out there and I add to this list regularly and I encourage you to consume as much as is reasonably possible.

However, for the new therapist or new to DBT therapist, coaches, family and clients, anything from this list is going to be well worth the price.

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For Clients and Families, Coaches and Therapists

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

For Coaches and Therapists seeking more theory and exercise to use with clients:

Drawing from Within: Using Art to Treat Eating Disorders, Lisa D. Hinz
DBT-Informed Art Therapy: Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and the Creative Process, Susan M. Clark

Trauma

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation, Janina Fischer
Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families, Susan M. Johnson
Internal Family Systems Therapy, Richard C. Schwartz and Martha Sweezy
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology), Pat Ogden
Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists, Boone, Steele, and van der Hart
Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory, Peter Levine
Attachment: 60 Trauma-Informed Assessment and Treatment Interventions Across the Lifespan, Christina Reese
Self-Therapy Workbook An Exercise Book for IFS Process, Bonnie J. Weiss
Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual: Trauma-Informed Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, PTSD & Substance Abuse, Anderson, Schwartz, and Sweezy
Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox: 125 Worksheets and Exercises to Treat Trauma & Stress, Mischke-Reeds
Easy Ego State Interventions: Strategies for Working With Parts, Robin Shapiro
Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy, Francine Shapiro

Helpful links

Addiction is a disease and can be treated. Individuals struggling with Substance Use Disorder deserve an environment where their illness is understood and recovery is fostered. And families absolutely have a role to play in guiding them towards that place.

Behavioral Tech, LLC, founded by Dr. Linehan, trains mental health care providers and treatment teams who work with complex and severely disordered populations to use compassionate, scientifically valid treatments and to implement and evaluate these treatments in their practice setting.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is a federal agency with a mission of facilitating recovery for people with or at risk for mental or substance use disorders. NREPP, SAMHSA’s national registry recognizes DBT to be an evidence based program in both it’s overall program and best practices.

NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. What started as a small group of families gathered around a kitchen table in 1979 has blossomed into the nation’s leading voice on mental health. Today, Nami is an association of hundreds of local affiliates, state organizations and volunteers who work in your community to raise awareness and provide support and education that was not previously available to those in need.

This website is in place to raise public awareness and promote research on borderline personality disorder as well as enhance the quality of life of those affected by this mental illness.

This information page is designed for the public and provides information about borderline personality disorder symptoms and treatment. The general public site for the National Institute of Mental Health can be found here.