Resources to Support Your Family

Books for Therapist

Reading is at the heart of how I grow as a therapist — these are the books that have shaped my thinking, and I'm sharing them in hopes they resonate with other clinicians too.

• Play Therapy with Adults by Charles Schaefer

• Family Play Therapy by Charles Schaefer & Lois Carey

• Between Give and Take: A Clinical Guide to Contextual Therapy by Ivan Boszormenyl-Nagy & Barbara Krasner

• Family Healing: Strategies for Hope and Understanding by Salvador Minuchin

• You can Fix Your Family by Charles Fishman

• Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson

• Intensive Structural Therapy by Charles Fishman

• The Co-Parents Handbook by Karen Bonnell

• The Therapeutic Powers of Play: 20 Core Agents of Change by Charles E. Schaefer & Athena A. Drewes

• Play Therapy: Basics and Beyond by Terry Kottman

• AutPlay Therapy for Children and Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum by  Robert Jason Grant

• The AutPlay Therapy Handbook by Robert Jason Grant

• Partners in Play: An Adlerian Approach to Play Therapy by Terry Kottman

• Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief by Martha Whitmore Hickman

• The Empty Room: Surviving the Loss of a Brother Or Sister at Any Age by by Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn

• Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Dread of Death by Irvin Yalom

• The Power of Showing up by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

• Dibs in Search of Self by Virginia M. Axline

• Play Therapy- The Inner Dynamics of Childhood by Virginia M. Axline

• Media Environments and Mental Disorder: The Psychology of Information Immersion by William Indick

• Building your Ideal Private Practice by Lynn Grodzki

• 10 Principles for Doing Effective Couples Therapy by Julie Schwartz Gottman

• Understanding Research Methods by Mildred L. Pattern & Michelle Newhart

• A Volcano in my Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger by Eliane Whitehouse & Warwick Pudney

• 40 Techniques Every Counselor Should Know by Bradley T. Erford

• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by Gottman, J., & Silver, N.

• The Whole-Brain Child: 12 revolutionary strategies to nurture your child's developing mind by Tina Bryson, Tina Payne & Daniel J. Siegel

• Doing Play Therapy From Building the Relationship to Facilitating Change by Terry Kottman & Kristin K Meany-Walen

• Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship by Garry L. Landreth

• Foundations of Play Therapy by Charles E. Schaefer

• Divorcing Children: Children's Experience of Their Parents' Divorce by Ian Butler, Lesley Scanlan, Margaret Robinson, Gillian Douglas, & Mervyn Murch

• Play in Family Therapy, Second Edition by Eliana Gil & Matthew D. Selekman

• Honey, I Wrecked the Kids_ When Yelling, Screaming, Threats, Bribes, Time-outs, Sticker Charts and Removing Privileges All Don't Work by Alyson Schafer

• A Therapist’s Guide to Child Development: The Extraordinarily Normal Years by Dee C. Ray

• New Peoplemaking: Science and Behavior Books by Virginia M. Satir

• Engaging Children in Family Therapy: Creative Approaches to Integrating Theory by Catherine Ford Sori

• Child Parent Relationship Therapy CPRT: A Ten-session Filial Therapy Model by Garry L. Landreth, Sue C. Bratton

• Advanced Sandtray Therapy Digging Deeper into Clinical Practice by Linda E. Homeyer & Marshal N. Lyles

• Family Therapy Techniques by Salvador Minuchin & Charles Fishman

• Case Conceptualization in Family Therapy by Michael D. Reiter

• Systems Theory in Action: Applications to Individual, Couple, and Family Therapy by Shelly Smith 

• Family Violence in a Cultural Perspective Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse by Malley-Morrison & K., Hines,

• Sex Therapy with Erotically Marginalized Clients by Damon Constantinides, Shannon Sennott & Davis Chandler

• Clinical Applications of Bowen Family Systems Theory by Murray Bowen &Peter Titleman

• Family Therapy in Clinical Practice by Murray Bowen

• Families and Family Therapy by Salvador Minuchin

• Family Therapy Techniques by Salvador Minuchin