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Theory, research and professional reading for therapists, students and curious humans. You don’t need a qualification to be curious.

This collection brings together resources from my psychotherapy and counselling reading and training, alongside things to explore in your own time. Pick what interests you. Leave what doesn’t.

The collection

67 resources to explore

Relationships, couples, and families12
Cover of The Science of Couples and Family Therapy: Behind the Scenes at the “Love Lab”

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The Science of Couples and Family Therapy: Behind the Scenes at the “Love Lab”

John M. Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman.

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Love and War in Intimate Relationships: Connection, Disconnection, and Mutual Regulation in Couple Therapy

Marion F. Solomon and Stan Tatkin.

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Trauma, embodiment & connection11
Cover of The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

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The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

Bonnie Badenoch.

Reading notes

Selected readings: Foreword, “Safety Is Treatment”; Introduction, “Being Present in the Context of Culture”; Chapter 15, “Inherent Wisdom and Implicit Memory”; Chapter 18, “Leading, Following, Responding”; Chapter 19, “Co-attaching”; Chapter 20, “Opening to Implicit Memory.”

Chapter titles and numbering can vary by edition. Check your copy.

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The Handbook of Trauma-Transformative Practice: Emerging Frameworks for Working with Individuals, Families and Communities

Joe Tucci, Janise Mitchell, Stephen W. Porges, and Ed Tronick, editors.

Reading notes

Selected readings: Chapter 2, “Polyvagal Theory: The Neuroscience of Safety in Trauma-Informed Practice”; Chapter 8, “Transforming Multisensory Experience into an Embodied Self”; Chapter 11, “Healing Inter- and Transgenerational Trauma Through Indigenous Healing Practices”; Chapter 18, “From Trauma Informed to Trauma Transformative.”

Chapter titles and numbering can vary by edition. Check your copy.

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Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy

Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton, and Clare Pain.

Reading notes

Selected reading: Chapter 5, “Defensive Subsystems: Mobilizing and Immobilizing Responses.”

Chapter titles and numbering can vary by edition. Check your copy.

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The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment

Babette Rothschild.

Reading notes

Selected reading: Chapter 5, “First Do No Harm.”

Chapter titles and numbering can vary by edition. Check your copy.

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Mindfulness Skills for Trauma and PTSD: Practices for Recovery and Resilience

Rachel Goldsmith Turow.

Reading notes

Selected reading: Chapter 5, “Respect and Reframe: Mindfulness Practices for Intrusive Thoughts, Traumatic Memories and Nightmares.”

Chapter titles and numbering can vary by edition. Check your copy.

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The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk.

Reading notes

Selected readings: “Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution” and “Running for Your Life: The Anatomy of Survival.” Chapter and page numbering may vary by edition; check your copy.

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Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation

Janina Fisher.

Reading notes

Selected readings: Chapter 2, “Understanding Parts, Understanding Traumatic Responses”; Chapter 4, “Learning to See Our ‘Selves’: An Introduction to Working with Parts.”

Chapter titles and numbering can vary by edition. Check your copy.

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Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment

Pat Ogden and Janina Fisher.

Reading notes

Selected reading: Chapter 10, “Exploring Body Sensation for Therapists.”

Chapter titles and numbering can vary by edition. Check your copy.

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Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy for BIPOC Communities: Decolonizing Mental Health

Pavna K. Sodhi.

Reading notes

Selected reading: Chapter 3, “Culturally Responsive Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy.”

Chapter titles and numbering can vary by edition. Check your copy.

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Facilitating Emotional Change: The Moment-by-Moment Process

Leslie S. Greenberg, Laura N. Rice, and Robert Elliott.

Reading notes

Selected reading: Chapter 13, “Empathic Affirmation at a Marker of Intense Vulnerability.”

Chapter titles and numbering can vary by edition. Check your copy.

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Research & papers7
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Paper

Therapeutic Presence: Neurophysiological Mechanisms Mediating Feeling Safe in Therapeutic Relationships

Shari M. Geller and Stephen W. Porges (2014). Link opens the author’s publications page.

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Somatic Experiencing: In the Realms of Trauma and Dissociation—What We Can Do, When What We Do, Is Really Not Good Enough

David Levit (2018), Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 28(5), 586–601.

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From the Inside Out: The Therapist’s Attachment Patterns as Sources of Insight and Impasse

David Wallin (2010), Psychotherapy in Australia, 16(3), 26–31.

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Videos & training3
Therapeutic relationships, emotion, and presence10
Attachment, neuroscience, and the self8
Book

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The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development, and Clinical Practice

Diana Fosha, Daniel J. Siegel, and Marion F. Solomon, editors.

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The Clinician, the Brain, and “I”: Neuroscientific Findings and the Subjective Self in Clinical Practice

Tony Schneider.

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The body in therapy9
Cover of Talking Bodies: How Do We Integrate Working with the Body in Psychotherapy from an Attachment and Relational Perspective?

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Talking Bodies: How Do We Integrate Working with the Body in Psychotherapy from an Attachment and Relational Perspective?

Kate White, editor.

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Trauma, justice, culture, and recovery7
Cover of Trauma Model Therapy: A Treatment Approach for Trauma, Dissociation and Complex Comorbidity

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Trauma Model Therapy: A Treatment Approach for Trauma, Dissociation and Complex Comorbidity

Colin A. Ross and Naomi Halpern.

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