We have developed a collection of reading resources that have been recommended by our therapists and clients. If you have any reading resources that would be good to add to our list, please email our office at: kcoughlinlcsw@gmail.com
Addictions
- An Addict in the Family
- Courage to Change
Anger
- When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within
Anxiety
- The Subtle Art of not giving a F….
Children
- Growing Friendships: A Kids’ Guide to Making & Keeping Friends
Coparenting / Divorce
- Co-Parenting After Divorce: A GPS for Healthy Kids – Debra K. Carter
- Learning from Divorce – Christine Coates and E. Robert LaCrosse
- For Better or for Worse – Mavis Hetherington
- Divorce Poison – Richard Warshak
- Putting Children First – JoAnne Pedro-Carroll
- Co-Parenting Handbook – Karen Bonnett
- Parenting After Divorce – Phil Stahl
- Parenting Apart: How Separated and Divorced Parents Can Raise Happy and Secure Kids – Christina McGhee
- Custody Chaos, Personal Peace – Jeff Wittmann
- Joint Custody with a jerk, raising a child with an uncooperative Ex – Julie Ross and Judy Corcoran
- How to avoid the divorce from hell – and dance together at your daughter’s wedding – M. Sue Talia
- Vicki Lansky’s Divorce Book for Parents – Vicki Lansky
- The Good Divorce – Constance Ahrons
- 101 Ways to be long-distance Super Dad or Mom – George Newman
- Ex-Etiquette for Parents – Jann Blackstone-Ford and Sharyl Jupe
- Your Divorce Advisor – Diana Mercer and Marsha Kline Pruett
- Stepfamilies – James H. Bray and John Kelly
- Through the Eyes of Children – Janet Johnston, Karen Breunig, Carla Garrity, and Mitchell Baris
- Tug of War – Harvey Brownstone
- The Smart Stepmom: Practical Steps to Help You Thrive! – Ron Deal & Laura Petherbridge
- Mom’s House, Dad’s House – Isolina Ricci
Dating, Relationship, and Marriage
- The Relationship Cure – 5 Step Guide to Strengthen Your Marriage – John Gottman
- The 5 Love Languages
- Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment & How It Can Help You Find – Keep – Love
- Smart Couples Finish Rich. 9 steps to creating a rich future for you and your spouse
- The Magic 5 hours – The relationship cure – 5 step guide to strengthen your marriage – John Gottman
- The Upside-Down Marriage: 12 Ways to Keep Your Marriage Right Side Up – by Jim Keller
- Sacred Marriage – by Gary L. Thomas
- Love and War: Finding the Marriage You’ve Dreamed of – by John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge
- How We Love: Discover Your Love Style, Enhance Your Marriage – by Milan Yerkovich, Kay Yerkovich
- The Emotionally Destructive Marriage – How to find your voice and reclaim your hope (Christian support)
- Fierce Intimacy – Terry Real
- Why Does He Do That? – Lundy Croftman
- Rising Strong, The Reckoning, The Rumble, The Revolution
- Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
- The Seven Levels of Intimacy by Matthew Kelly
- Getting the Love you Want by Harville Hendrix and Hellen LaKelly Hunt
- Marriage on the Rock: A Guide for discovering God’s design for your dream marriage
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parent
- The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
- Should I Stay or Should I Go? – Lundy Croftman
Debt Free
- Debt Free Living – Larry Burkett
- The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness – Dave Ramsey
- The Total Money Makeover Workbook – Dave Ramsey
- Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives
- Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
Depression
- The Art of Happiness – Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler
- The Secret
- The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want
- The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World: Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu
Divorce Pre-School Age – Elementary Age
- Dinosaurs Divorce – Laurie Krasny Brown & Marc Brown
- Where is Daddy? – Beth Goff
- My Mother’s House, My Father’s House – C.B. Christiansen
- My Family’s Changing – Pat Thomas
- Two Home by Claire Masurel
- At Daddy’s on Saturdays – Linda Girard
- Why are we getting a divorce? Peter Mayle
- When My Parents Forgot How to Be Friends – Jennifer Moore-Mallinos
- A Smart Girl’s Guide to Her Parents’ Divorce: How to Land on Your Feet When your World Turns Upside Down
- Why did you have to get a divorce? And WHEN can I get a Hamster? – Anthony E. Wolf
- Why Do Families Change?
Divorce Teens and Pre-Teens
- It’s not the end of the world – Judy Blume
- When Divorce hits home – Bath & Thea Joselow
- What in the World Do You Do When Your Parent’s Divorce? A Survival Guide for Kids
- Divorce is Not the End of the Word: Zoe ‘s & Evan’s Coping Guide for Kids – Zoe Stern
Emotional Self-Help Books
- Emotional Agility, Susan David
- The Gifts of Imperfections: Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be and embrace who you are, Brene Brown
- Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment & How It Can Help You Find – Keep – Love
- You Can Heal Your Life – Louise Hay
Family Issues
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents – Lindsay C. Gibson, PhD
- The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World: Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu
- Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment & How It Can Help You Find – Keep – Love
Grief – Christian Faith
- A Grace Disguised
Grief – General
- ABC’s of Healthy Grieving: A Companion for Everyday Coping
- Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss
- A Matter of Death and Life
- A Parent’s Guide to Raising Grieving Children
- Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief
- Beyond Grief: A Guide for Recovering From the Death of a Loved One
- The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
- How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies
- It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand
- It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture that Doesn’t Understand
- I Wasn’t Ready to say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing after the Sudden Death of a Loved One
- The After Grief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss
- The Grief Recovery Handbook
- The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss
- The Power of Now
- The Rebellious Widow – A Practice Guide to Love and Loss After Loss
- The Sun Still Rises: Surviving and Thriving after Grief and Loss – by Shawn Doyle
- The Wild Edge of Sorrow
- When Bad Things Happen to Good People
- When Breath Becomes Air – by Paul Kalanithi
Grieving The Loss of a Parent
- Death of a Parent: Transition to a New Adult Identity
- Finding Your Way after Your Parent Dies
- Healing the Adult Child’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After your Parent Dies
- How to Survive the Loss of a Parent: A Guide For Adults
- Longing for Dad; Father Loss and its Impact
- On Grieving The Death of a Father
- On Grieving the Death of a Mother
- The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of our Parents
Grief Loss of a Spouse
- I’m Grieving as Fast as I Can
- The Group: Seven Widowed Fathers Reimagine Life
- The Tender Scar: Life After the Death of a Spouse
- The Year of Magical Thinking
- The Widow’s Journal: Questions to Guide You through Grief and Life Planning after the Loss of a Partner-
Grief Due to Suicide
- Dying to Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families after a Suicide
- Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One
- Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
- No Time To Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One
- Life after Suicide: Finding Courage, Comfort and Community after Unthinkable Loss
- Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide
- The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order
- Why People Die by Suicide
Grief Loss of Sibling
- Grief Diaries: Loss of a Sibling – by Lynda Cheldelin Fell and Christine Bastone
- Healing the Adult Sibling’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas after your Brother or Sister Dies
- Sibling Grief: Healing After the Death of a Sister or Brother – by P. Gill White
- Surviving the Death of a Sibling: Living Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies
- The Empty Room: Understand Sibling Loss – by Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
Grief Child Loss
- A Broken Heart Still Beats: After Your Child Dies
- Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child (Good Grief series)
- When The Bough Breaks: Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter
- Beyond Tears: Living after Losing a Child
Grief Pet Loss
- Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet
- Grieving the Death of a Pet
- Losing My Best Friend: Thoughtful Support for those affected by Dog Bereavement or Pet Loss
- The Pet Loss Companion: Healing Advice from Family Therapists Who Lead Pet Loss Groups
- The Loss of a Pet: A Guide to Coping with the Grieving Process When a Pet Dies
Grief – Teens Losing A Loved One
- Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome
- Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love
- You Are Not Alone; Teens Talk About Life After The Loss of a Parent
- When A Friend Dies: A Book for Teens about Grieving & Healing
- The Grieving Teen: A Guide for Teens and Their Friends – by Helen Fitzgerald
Grief Reading For Young Children
- Always and Forever
- Badger’s Parting Gifts
- Grandpa’s Boat
- The Goodbye Boat
- The Invisible String
- Missing Mummy
- Samantha Jane’s Missing Smile
- Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss
- The Copper Tree
- The Fall of Freddie the Leaf: A Story of Life for All Ages
- The Great Big Book of Feelings
- The Rainbow Bridge: A Visit to Pet Paradise
- Up in Heaven
- When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death
- When Someone Very Special Dies: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief
Grief – Adults Losing a Friend
- Grieving the Death of a Friend – by Harold Ivan Smith
- My Best Friend Died: Poems for those Grieving the Loss of a Loved One – by Alive Vo Edwards
- When Your Friend Dies – by Harold Ivan Smith
Infertility
- Spiritual Fertility: Integrative Practices for the Journey to Motherhood
- Making Babies
- The Impatient Woman’s Guide to Getting Pregnant
- The Ten-Year Club: A Decade of Infertility and Us
- Inconceivable
- The Underachieving Ovary
- If at First You Don’t Conceive: A Complete Guide to Infertility from One of the Nation’s Leading Clinics
- Yes, You Can Get Pregnant: Natural ways to improve your fertility now and into your 40’s, Aimee Raupp
- Body Belief: How to heal autoimmune diseases, radically shift your health & learn to love your body more, Aimee Raupp
- Chill out and get healthy: Live clean to be strong and stay sexy, Aimee Raupp
Intimacy
- Buddha’s Bedroom: The Mindful Loving Path to Sexual Passion and Lifelong Intimacy – https://drcherylfraser.com/
- Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment & How It Can Help You Find – Keep – Love
Leadership
- Dare to Lead, Brene Brown
- Rising Strong, The Reckoning, The Rumble, The Revolution
- The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits that will transform your life before 8 AM
Life Planning
- Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
- Rising Strong, The Reckoning, The Rumble, The Revolution
- Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment & How It Can Help You Find – Keep – Love
Male Health
- The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
- Buddha’s Bedroom: The Mindful Loving Path to Sexual Passion and Lifelong Intimacy – https://drcherylfraser.com/
Narcissism
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
- Becoming the Narcissist’s Nightmare – Shahida Arabi – (She has YouTube Videos as well)
- How to Divorce a Narcissist and Win
- Children of the Self-Absorbed
- Emotional Blackmail – Susan Forward, PhD
- Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving & Thriving with the self-absorbed
- Healing from Hidden Abuse
- Healing the Daughter of Narcissistic Mothers
- Narcissistic Mothers: Theresa Shahida – How Being the Daughter or Son of a Narcissistic Mother Affect Your Feelings & Your Life.
- One Moms Battle Divorcing a Narcissist – Healing from Hidden Abuse
- Power: Surviving and Thriving after narcissistic abuse: Essays on Malignant Narcissist & Recovery – Shahida Arabi
- Psychopath Free: Recovering from emotionally abusive relationships with Narcissist & Sociopaths & Other Toxic People
- Psychopath Free – Jackson MacKenzie
- Should I Stay or Should I Go? – Lundy Croftman
- The Covert Passive Aggressive Narcissist – Debbie Mirza
- The Human Magnet Syndrome: Why We Love People Who Hurt Us
- The Safest Place Possible – Debbie Mirza
- The Verbally Abusive Relationship
- The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists
- Setting Boundaries will set you free: Ultimate guide to telling the truth, creating connection & finding freedom
- Why Does He Do That? – Lundy Croftman
- Will I ever be enough
Obsessive Compulsive Behaviors
- Overcoming Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors: A Comprehensive Behavioral Treatment for Hair Pulling & Skin Picking
- Brainlock for OCD
Parenting
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents – Lindsay C. Gibson, PhD
- Relational Parenting: Going Beyond Your Child’s Behavior to Meet Their Deepest Needs
- Positive Discipline for Toddlers – Jane Nelsen
Self-Improvement
- Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment & How It Can Help You Find – Keep – Love
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parent
- How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
- Raving Fans – Ken Blanchard
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- You are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
- The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
- The 4 Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz
- The Power of Now – Eckart Tolle
- Your best life now – Joel Osteen
- Women and Self-Esteem
- Untethered Soul – Michael Singer
- Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior and Feel Great Again
- The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World By Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu
- Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
- You Can Heal Your Life – Louise Hay
Spiritual Books
- Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity is a Self-Help
- You Can Heal Your Life – Louise Hay
Trauma and Healing
- A Practical Guide to Complex PTSD – Compassionate Strategies to Begin Healing from Childhood Trauma
- Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD Manual
- Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving – A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma
- Drama of the Gifted Child
- Getting Past Your Past
- Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors
- Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope & Recovery in a Violent World
- Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of your Body
- Feel It Heal It Let It Go (Includes prompts to journal) – Nicole Musap
- Feelings Buried Alive Never Die
- Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery: Take-Charge Strategies to Empower Your Healing
- Highjacked Your Brain: How to Free Yourself When Stress Takes Over
- It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
- It’s Not You, It’s What Happened to You: Complex Trauma & Treatment
- Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love & Recovery in the Aftermath of War
- Rethinking Trauma Treatment: Attachment, Memory Reconsolidation, & Resilience
- Taming the Fire Within: Life After War
- The Body Keeps the Score – Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
- The Body Remembers
- The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity
- The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
- The Post Traumatic Growth Guidebook: Practical Mind-Body Tools to Heal Trauma, Foster Resilience & Awake Potential
- Toxic Parents: Susan Forward Ph.D
- Transforming Living a Legacy of Trauma
- Trauma & Memory by Peter Levine
- Trauma Through a Child’s Eye
- Trauma & Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
- Waking the Tiger
- What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, & Healing
- You Can Heal Your Life – Louise Hay