Counselling

Counselling is a type of talking therapy that allows a person to talk about their problems and feelings in a confidential and dependable environment. A counsellor is trained to listen with empathy (by putting themselves in their client's shoes). They are trained to help a client deal with any negative thoughts and feelings that they may have.
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No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
Building a Non-Anxious Life
Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves—and How to Find Our Way Back
Raising Emotionally Strong Boys: Tools Your Son Can Build on for Life
Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)
Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
A Matter of Death and Life
Hour of the Heart: Connecting in the Here and Now – The Legendary Therapist's Profound One-Hour Sessions on Vulnerability and Breakthroughs
And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Therapy
Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It
Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners
Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
How to Be the Love You Seek: Break Cycles, Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships
The Art of Disagreeing: How to Keep Calm and Stay Friends in Hard Conversations
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change (Resources for Changing Lives)
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
Man's Search for Meaning
When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man (Resources for Changing Lives)
How People Change
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
Competent to Counsel
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Seeing with New Eyes: Counseling and the Human Condition Through the Lens of Scripture (Resources for Changing Lives)
The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
The Gifts of Imperfection
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
The Life Of A Psychic Detective by Nancy Orlen WeberTrauma by Ken McClureRemembering Trauma by McNallyThe Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and World... by Asa Don Brown8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery by Babette Rothschild
TRAUMA EXPERTS IN BOOKS
24 books — 10 voters

The Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyPro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyLeading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb Tsipursky
Psychology & Counseling
54 books — 56 voters
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklOn Becoming a Person by Carl R. RogersMotivational Interviewing by William R. MillerMemories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. JungDBT Skills Training by Marsha M. Linehan
Therapist's reading list
75 books — 31 voters

What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective ... by Martha Char LoveExistential Psychotherapy by Irvin D. YalomThe Gift of Therapy by Irvin D. YalomThe Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy by Irvin D. YalomManage My Emotions by Kenneth J. Martz
Best psychotherapy / psychology books
50 books — 35 voters
Tainted Shadows by Kendrick SimsTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksIn All Things by Ed  DavisManage My Emotions by Kenneth J. Martz
Stories for a Psychology Student
73 books — 40 voters


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