Helpful Resources

Counseling Services

Helpful Resources

Helpful Apps:

Meditation/Sleep
Insight Timer

 

CALM

 

Headspace

 

Relax Melodies

 

Breethe

 

Sleep Cycle

 

Mindfulness
T2 Mood Tracker

 

Moodfit

 

5 Minute Escapes

 

Stress Management
COVID Coach

 

Relax- Stress and Anxiety Relief

 

YOU: Small actions, Big change

 

 

Crisis Hotlines:

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:
1-800-273-8255 (24/7)
National Eating Disorder
Association
/Hotline: 1-800-931-2237
General Crisis Text Line: Text
SUPPORT to 741-741
National Alliance on Mental Illness:
1-800-950-6264
Domestic Violence Hotlineloveisrespect: 1-866-331-9474
Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network: 1-800-656-4673
Veterans Association
Hotline: 1-800-273-8255

 

 

Book Recommendations:

For Kids:
  • A Little Spot of Anxiety by Diane Alber
  • Soda Pop Head by Julia Cook
  • Angry Octopus by Lori Lite
  • Healing Days by Susan Farber Straus
  • Visiting Feelings by Lauren Rubenstein

 

Adjustment, Anxiety, and Mood Disorders
  • Beyond Consequences, Logic and Control by Heather T. Forbes
  • How to Stop Worrying and Start Living– Dale Carnegie
  • Outsmarting Worry: An Older Kid’s Guide to Managing Anxiety by Dawn Huebner and Kara McHale
  • The Little Book of Mindfulness by Patrizia Collard
Healthy Boundaries
  • Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
  • Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend
Personality Disorders
  • Overcoming borderline personality disorder: A family guide for healing and change by Valerie Porr
  • Brain lock: Free yourself from obsessive-compulsive behavior by Jeffrey Schwarts
  • The everything guide to narcissistic personality disorder: Professional, reassuring advice for coping
    with the disorder – at work, at home, and in your family
    by Cynthia Lechan Goodman and Barbara Leff

DBT

  • The Buddha and the borderline: My recovery from borderline personality disorder through dialectical
    behavior therapy
    by Kiera Van Gelder
  • Freedom from selfharm: Overcoming self-injury with skills from DBT and other treatments by Kim
    Gratz and Alexander Chapman
  • Don’t let your emotions run your life for teens: Dialectical behavior therapy for helping you manage
    mood swings, control angry outbursts, and get along with others
    by Sheri VanDijk
Eating Disorders and Self-harm
  • Hope for the hollow: A 30-day devotional guide for women suffering from eating disorders by Jena
    Morrow
  • Starving in search of me: A coming-of-age story of overcoming an eating disorder and finding
    self-acceptance
    by Marissa LaRocca
  • Cutting: Understanding and overcoming self-mutilation by Steven Levenkron
New Experiences and Transitions
  • Transitions: Making sense of life’s changes by William Bridges
  • The anatomy of change: A way to move through life’s transitions by Richard Strozzi-Heckler
  • Life’s transitions: Invitations to wholeness by Ben Johnson, Robby Carroll, and Kay Stewart
Parenting
  • The whole-brain child: 12 revolutionary strategies to nurture your child’s developing mind By
    Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
  • Raising the kid you love with the ex you hate by Edward Farber
  • No-drama discipline by Daniel Siegel
  • Wise mind parenting by Laura Kastner
Personal Development
  • Daring Greatly/Rising Strong-Brene Brown
  • You Are A Badass– Jen Sincero
  • Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It– Kamal Ravikant
  • Girl, Wash Your Face/Girl Stop Apologizing– Rachel Hollis
  • The Happiness Project-Gretchen Rubin
  • The Power of Now– Eckhart Tolle
  • Untamed– Glennon Doyle
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People– Stephen Covey

 

 

Relationships: Couples and Families
  • The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
  • The dance of intimacy: A woman’s guide to courageous acts of change in key relationshipsby Harriet
    Lerner
  • Communication miracles for couples: Easy and effective tools to create more love and less
    conflict
    by Jonathan Robinson
  • 4 essential keys to effective communication in love, life, work – anywhere!: A how-to guide for
    practicing the empathic listening, speaking, and dialogue skills to achieve relationship success
    by
    Bento Leal, III
  • Surviving and thriving in stepfamily relationshipsby Patricia Papernow
Sexuality, Sexual Identity, Gender Identity
  • The gender identity workbook for kids: A guide to exploring who you are by Kelly Storck and Noah
    Grigni
  • The ABC’s of LGBT+ by Ashley Mardell
  • You and your gender identity: A guide to discovery by Dara Hoffman-Fox
  • Black on both sides: A racial history of trans identity by C. Riley Snorton
Racial/Ethnic Identity/Race-related Stress
  • Black lotus: A woman’s search for racial identity by Sil Lai Abrams
  • Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? And other conversations about race by
    Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • Backlash: What happens when
Trauma, Grief, and Medical Concerns
  • The body keeps the score by Bessel van der Kolk
  • The gifts of imperfection by Brene Brown
  • From pain to power: Overcoming sexual trauma and reclaiming your true identity by Mary Ellen Mann
  • It’s ok that you’re not ok: Meeting grief and loss in a culture that doesn’t understand by Megan
    Devine
  • Under the influence: A journey of abuse, trauma, and grief through poetry by Jacquelyn Lee
Postpartum/Perinatal
  • Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts by Karen Kleiman, illustrated by Molly McIntyre
  • Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughtsby Sally Winston and Martin Seif