Mental Health Resources

Trauma Recovery

  • Reading

    For All Therapists:


    • Trauma and Dissociation Informed Psychotherapy: Relational Healing and the Therapeutic Connection by Elizabeth Howell PhD
    • Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation by Janina Fisher, PhD
    • Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex Ptsd with Internal Family by Frank Anderson, MD
    • Complex PTSD Treatment Manual:  An Integrative, Mind-Body Approach to Trauma Recovery by Arielle Schwartz, PhD
    • Easy Ego State Interventions:  Strategies for Working with Parts by Robin Shapiro, LICSW
    • The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog:  What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing by Bruce Perry, MD, PhD and Maia Szalavitz
    • Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy by Mcconnell
    • Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation by Steele, Boon, Van Der Hart
    • Treatment of Complex Trauma: A Sequenced, Relationship-Based Approach by  Christine A. Courtois  & Julian D. Ford
    • Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder by Elizabeth Howell
    • Healing the Unimaginable by Miller
    • Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Adults, 2nd Edition: Scientific Foundations and Therapeutic Models edited by Julian D. Ford  & Christine A. Courtois
    • The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization by Onno van der Hart PhD, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis PhD, Kathy Steele
    • Intensive Psychotherapy for Persistent Dissociative Processes: The Fear of Feeling Real  by Richard A. Chefetz
    • Shelter from the Storm: Processing the Traumatic Memories of DID/DDNOS Patients with The Fractionated Abreaction Technique by Richard P. Kluft, MD
    • Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addition by Maia Szalavitz
    • Neuropsychological Evaluation of Somatoform and Other Functional Somatic Conditions, edited by Kyle Brauer Boone
    • The Invisible Wound by Kritsberg

    For All EMDR Therapists:



    • Attachment-Focused EMDR:  Healing Relational Trauma by Laurel Parnell, PhD
    • When There Are No Words: Repairing Early Trauma and Neglect From the Attachment Period with EMDR Therapy by Sandra Paulsen, PhD
    • EMDR Toolbox: Theory and Treatment of Complex PTSD and Dissociation by Jim Knipe
    • Looking Through the Eyes of Dissociation: An Illustrated Guide for EMDR Therapists and Clients by Sandra Paulsen, PhD
    • EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology by Arielle Schwartz and Barb Maiberger
    • EMDR and Dissociation:  The Progressive Approach by Anabel Gonzalez and Dolores Mosquera
    • Healing the Heart of Trauma and Dissociation with EMDR and Ego State Therapy by Carol Forgash and Margaret Copeley
    • Neurobiology and Treatment of Traumatic Dissociation:  Toward an Embodied Self edited by Ulrich Lanius, Sandra Paulsen, and Frank Corrigan
    • EMDR and Emotional Processing by Anabel Gonzalez
    • Working with Voices and Dissociative Parts by Dolores Mosquera (latest edition)
    • Rewiring the Addicted Brain with EMDR-Based Treatment by Laurel Parnell, PhD
    • Ego State Therapy Interventions to Prepare Attachment-Wounded Adults for EMDR by Shirley Jean Schmidt, MA, LPC
    • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures by Francine Shapiro, PhD
    • Neurobiological Foundations for EMDR Practice by Uri Bergmann, PhD
    • EMDR Therapy Scripted Protocols: Basics and Special Situations by Marilyn Luber, PhD
    • EMDR Therapy Scripted Protocols and Summary Sheets: Treating Eating Disorders, Chronic Pain and Maladaptive Self-Care Behaviors by Marilyn Luber, PhD
    • EMDR Therapy Scripted Protocols and Summary Sheets: Treating Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Mood-Related Conditions by Marilyn Luber, PhD
    • EMDR Therapy Scripted Protocols and Summary Sheets: Treating Trauma in Somatic and Medical Related Conditions

    Articles:

    Separating Fact from Fiction: An Empirical Examination of Six Myths About Dissociative Identity Disorder


  • Social Media

    Recommended TikTok accounts (with whom I have zero affiliation):


    • thepsychdoctormd
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    • complexptsd
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    • domesticblisters
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  • Training for Therapists

    Advanced Training for EMDR Therapists:


    • The Steve Frankel Group
    • EMDR Advanced Trainings
    • Laurel Parnell, PhD
    • EMDRIA OnDemand Education
    • Arielle Schwartz, LCP, PhD
    • EMDR & Parts Work for Treating Complex Trauma: Somatic Techniques to Decrease Defensiveness and Facilitate Trauma Processing by Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II
    • Rivers Edge Institute (basic and advanced trainings)
    • Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy
    • April Steele, MSc, BCATR (developing a secure self, imaginal nurturing)