RESOURCES

Resources

If you are currently experiencing a crisis in the Pittsburgh area, please call:

 

re:solve Crisis Services

1-888-796-8226

 

Or call 911 and go to your nearest emergency room.



Recommended resources


Understanding CPTSD--or Complex (Childhood) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker


Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology And How You Can Heal by Donna Jackson Nakazawa


It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn


The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole by Arielle Schwartz, Ph.D.


Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.



No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C Schwartz




The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk



What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo


Understanding Narcissistic Abuse


“Don't You Know Who I Am?”: How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility by Ramani S. Durvasula Ph.D 


Traumatic Narcissism and Recovery by Daniel Shaw


Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation

by Daniel Shaw





Healing: Doing the Work, Mindfulness, Connection, Embodiment, Self Compassion


Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristin Neff


Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach


Radical CompassionLearning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN  by Tara Brach


Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron


How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery

by Dr. Nicole LePera

First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety by Sarah Wilson


Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict by Tsultrim Allione 





Read about some of the psychological approaches I practice from:


Accelerated Experiential

Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)


Somatic Experiencing


Polyvagal Theory

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