Category: About Therapy

The PTSD Workbook for Teens: Simple, Effective Skills for Healing Trauma

By Libbi Palmer, PsyD (2012)

From Amazon.com: “If you have traumatic memories from an extremely upsetting, stressful, or painful experience in your life, you are not alone. In fact, many young people have been exposed to traumatic events. As a result, you might have lingering flashbacks, trouble sleeping, or a constant feeling that you are in danger. These are common symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Based in cognitive behavioral therapy, this user-friendly workbook for teens with PTSD and other trauma-related difficulties will help you work through your experience and make sense of your thoughts and feelings. The book includes worksheets and activities to help you reestablish a sense of safety, gain control over your emotions, make peace with your traumatic experience, and reconnect with a positive sense of self. If you are ready to start recovering from traumatic memories and take back your life, the PTSD Workbook for Teens will show you the way.”

You Are Not Crazy

You Are Not Crazy

Letters from Your Therapist

By David Klow, LMFT (2018)

From Amazon.com:

People today live in psychological bubbles. They think that they are the only ones who experience what they do.
Person after highly intelligent person comes into therapy thinking that there is something terribly wrong with them. They think that they are crazy, yet do not realize that everyone around them is having quite similar experiences.

YOU ARE NOT CRAZY: Letters from Your Therapist ends the psychological isolation. It helps people realize that they are not the only ones who have strange thoughts or behave inconsistently.

Psychotherapist David Klow brings deep insight, wisdom, and warmth to this process as he helps readers find new understanding about themselves. Through a series of heartfelt letters to his patients, he relates timeless and impactful information that normalizes life’s struggles.

YOU ARE NOT CRAZY IS FOR. . .
* Those looking to develop insight into themselves
* Anyone who wants to have more satisfying relationships
* People who feel alone and long to identify more with the struggles of others
* Those who want to learn more about the process of therapy and gain psychological wisdom
* Anyone who might benefit from a heartfelt combination of confrontation and compassion

Love Is Good Therapy: The Gift of Being Loved by Your Therapist

Love Is Good Therapy: The Gift of Being Loved by Your Therapist

January 16, 2018

By Alex Afram, PhD, GoodTherapy.org Topic Expert

At GoodTherapy.org

https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/love-is-good-therapy-gift-of-being-loved-by-your-therapist-1116185?utm_source=Subscribers&utm_campaign=965cb97e10-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_135946a8dd-965cb97e10-71304725

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

(Crossing Press Feminist Series)

 by Audre Lorde. With Cheryl Clarke (Foreword) (2007)

Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.

In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde’s philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published.

These landmark writings are, in Lorde’s own words, a call to “never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is…”

“[Lorde’s] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”
—New York Times 

Above review from Amazon.com

How to Understand Your Partner and Get Your Needs Met

How to Understand Your Partner and Get Your Needs Met

Couples therapists explain why mutual understanding can be mutually satisfying

By Diane Barth, LCSW, Off the Couch

Posted March 17, 2012

At PsychologyToday.com

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-couch/201203/how-understand-your-partner-and-get-your-needs-met

Therapy Isn’t Helping. Is My Therapist Stringing Me Along?

Therapy Isn’t Helping. Is My Therapist Stringing Me Along?

By Darren Haber, MA, MFT

At Good Therapy.org

http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/dear-gt/therapy-isnt-helping-is-my-therapist-stringing-me-along?utm_source=Subscribers&utm_campaign=945599915d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_135946a8dd-945599915d-71304725