Resources

Between the Weeks:
Resources and homework to support you between your therapy sessions

Note:

Many of the professionals referenced below are also active on social media, podcasts, or their own websites beyond what’s linked here. If something resonates, it’s often worth searching for them directly to see the fuller range of what they offer.

Disclaimer:

I do not benefit financially in any way from any of the resources below, and I am not affiliated with any of them. Pursue these at your own pace, and your own risk.

Free Access to Resources

• Library: many books listed on this page are available free through your local library, in print, audiobook, or ebook form. Before buying, it’s worth checking there first.

• Libby - EBooks & Audiobooks: free with your library card

• Hoopla - EBooks, Audiobooks, and other free Media: free with your library card

• Insight Timer - App: free app for guided meditation, music, talks

Understanding Trauma and How Therapy Can Help

• Book - What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey

• Book - Gifts From A Challenging Childhood: Creating A Practice for Becoming Your Healthiest Self by Jan Bergstrom

• Book - Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance by Kelly McDaniel

• Book - Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson

• Book - Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

• Blogpost - “Recovery from Developmental Trauma is a Developmental Process,” by Beth Ratchford

• Blogpost - “What Healing from Childhood Trauma Actually Involves”, by Beth Ratchford

• Book (daily reader) - The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie

• Book (daily reader) - Strengthening My Recovery

• Book - Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab

Tools for Building Safety and Support Within Yourself; Use Between Therapy Sessions

When you notice that you need some help/support right now:

• PDF - For flashbacks, triggers, activations, trauma responses (in another format)

• PDF - For obsessive thinking, negative self-talk, inner critic, perfectionism, all-or-nothing thinking, etc…

• Video - Soothe Anxiety in the Nervous System

• Website - guided meditations by Dan Harris

• Website - meditation, talks, podcasts by Tara Brach

• PDF - ACA Bill of Rights, permission to support yourself

Non-judgmental Self-observation / Learning to notice:

• PDF - Feelings Wheel

• Blogpost - Window of Tolerance

Inner Child and Parts work / Imagery:

• Webpage - ACA’s Inner Child resources, to support parts and inner child work

• Substack - Dan Harris, on how imagery and imagination are useful

Self-Compassion:

• Meditation - Self-Compassion

• Substack - Dan Harris, on how self-compassion is helpful

• Exercises - Self-Compassion Institute by Dr. Kristin Neff

• Meditation - Nothing to Fix by Tess Callahan (on Insight Timer)

Polyvagal theory:

• Blogpost & PDF - Polyvagal Theory Chart of Trauma Response

Somatic work / Imagery:

• Meditation - somatic grounding through sound and imagery, by Dr. Hillary McBride

• Blogpost - somatic grounding through drawing, by Sensorimotor Art Therapy

Examples of Groups: cost-effective & adds value to individual therapy sessions

Group Therapy:

• Groups for navigating family relationships by Calling Home, Whitney Goodman

• Groups for Women Considering Divorce and Recovering from Divorce, by Carrie Mead

• Groups for Betrayed Partners, by Center for Intimacy Recovery

Peer Groups and Support Groups:

• Website - Women’s Separation and Divorce Group by Angela Mazer

• Website - Mindfulness Meditation & Reflection Group by Regina Flanigan

• Blogpost - “Go To A 12 Step Meeting? You Gotta Be Kidding Me,” by Michelle Mays

• Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families (ACA)

• Co-Dependents Anonymous (CoDA)

Resources for Betrayed Partners, Relational Trauma, and High-Conflict Relationships

• PDF - Power and Control Wheel

• Book - The Betrayal Bind by Michelle D. Mays

• Book - Healing from Toxic Relationships by Stephanie Moulton Sarkis

• Teaching Courses - Conflict Influencer Training by High Conflict Institute

• Podcast - “It’s All Your Fault,” by High Conflict Institute

Resources for Parenting

• Website - Good Inside, with Dr. Becky

• Website - Nurtured First

• Book - The Power of Showing Up by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

• PDF - Recommended Book List by Covington Hafkin and Associates

• Video - “Unlocking the Adolescent Mind: Insights from Dr. Siegel”

• Website - Parent Coaching by Angel Mazer

• Website - Kids Can Copy, therapy specializing in kids

• Website - By Your Side Counseling Services, therapy specializing in kids

Resources for Parental Alienation and High Conflict Co-Parenting

• Book - Divorce Poison by Dr. Richard A. Warshak

• Blogpost - “Difficult cases and harmful co-parenting”

• Teaching Courses - Conflict Influencer Training by High Conflict Institute

• Podcast - “It’s All Your Fault,” by High Conflict Institute

Resources for Estrangement

• Group Therapy, Resources, Podcast, Online Community - Calling Home

• Coaching Support & Groups - The Estranged Heart

Resources for Changing Myself in Relationships

• Podcast - “Journals of a Love Addict”, by Jodi White

• Website - “Fix Your Picker!”, by Adam Murauskas

• Quiz - Attachment Styles Quiz, by Dr. Diane Poole Heller

• Heidi Kingston: therapist specializing in developmental trauma (Post Induction Therapy, Healing Our Core Issues Institute) and attachment

Resources for Repair and Reframing 12-Step Fellowships and Addiction

• Book - A Woman’s Way Through the Twelve Steps by Stephanie S. Covington

• Book - Trauma and the 12 Steps by Jamie Marich

Resources for Cultivating Growth and Perspective

• Book (daily reader) - Just This by Richard Rohr

• Book - When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön

• On Being (podcast) - “Navigating Loss Without Closure,” with Pauline Boss

• On Being (podcast) - “The Healing Is In The Return,” with Sharon Salzberg

• On Being (podcast) - “Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence,” with Resmaa Menakem

• Video - “Presence, Parenting, and The Planet,” by Dr. Dan Siegel

• Book - Life After Doom by Brian McLaren

Resources for Adoptees

• Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.) - resources and therapists specializing in clients who have been adopted

• Amanda Mason: therapist specializing in adoption, adoptees, and pregnancy

Resources for Neurodivergence

• Dr. Amy Shaffer Post: ADHD-focused therapist

• Kerri Easterbrook: neurodivergent-affirming therapist

• Golden Counseling Services: neurodivergent-affirming therapy

• Book - Taking Charge of Adult ADHD by Russell Barkley

• Book - Smart but Scattered by Peg Dawson

• Book - How to Keep House While Drowning by K.C. Davis

Resources About Sex

• Website - Dr. Celeste Holbrook

• Sex Education Classes - Velvet Box

• Book - Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski

Resources About Financial Literacy

• Book - Financial Feminist by Tori Dunlap

• Book - Finance for the People by Paco de Leon

• Website - financial coaching for artists by Tamara Bates, The Dots Between

• Podcast - Queer Money

Examples of Trauma Reprocessing Therapy Modalities

• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

• The Flash Technique (Four Blinks Flash)

• ART (Accelerated Resolution Therapy)

• Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)

• Neurofeedback

• Somatic Therapy

Examples of Trauma Reprocessing Therapists

I have training in EMDR and Flash. Here are examples of other skilled clinicians with additional training in different types of trauma reprocessing.

• Jessica Magrath: EMDR and the Flash Technique

• Lynn Davis: DBR, EMDR, and Neurofeedback

• Laura Williams: EMDR

• Lexi Windsor: EMDR

• John Slick: EMDR

• Taruno Steffensen: Somatic Experiencing

Examples of Therapeutic Intensives (Short-Term) and Extended (30+ Day) Treatment

These programs are included for awareness and further research, not personal endorsement.

For relational, developmental, and emotional healing:

• Green Shoe Foundation: 5-day outpatient retreat, adults 21+, relational trauma and codependency, Oklahoma

• Beachwood Integrative Equine Therapy: shorter intensives (3 to 6 days), equine therapy, Rhode Island, Florida, Pennsylvania, California, and D.C.

• Onsite Workshops: individual and group workshops and intensives, Tennessee

• The Meadows Workshops: 5-day intensives, Arizona

• Beth Ratchford’s Intensives: individual intensives, Virginia

For working on addiction:

• Gentle Path at The Meadows: sex addiction specific, inpatient (45 days), men only, Wickenburg, AZ

• The Guest House Ocala: broader addiction and trauma, coed, residential (up to 90 days), Florida

Counseling/Therapy Referrals

• Maryland Marriage and Family Therapy Centers

• CoTenacious Therapy

• Maryland Center for Gender & Intimacy

• Silver Psychotherapy

• Shire Counseling and Coaching

• Rise Counseling and Wellness Group

• Directory - Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment

• Directory - Healing Trauma Network

• Directory - AEDP

• Directory - Open Path Collective (affordable therapy)

Examples of Gentle Body Work and Nervous System Support

• Zoe Randall, Attuned PT, Kensington, MD

• Klein Integrative Physical Therapy, kleinipt.com, DC, MD, VA

• KJ Sauer, PEAK Acupuncture, Frederick, MD

• Cat Rizziello, trauma-informed massage therapy, Frederick, MD

• Heather Hagaman, trauma-informed yoga, DC, MD, VA

• Directory - Find an Acupuncturist

Therapy Concepts in Story Form

• Movie - The Kid, starring Bruce Willis

• Movies - Inside Out and Inside Out 2

• TV Show - Stillwater on AppleTV

• Book - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, by Lori Gottlieb: written by a therapist about therapy, a great audiobook that reads like a novel

Thought-provoking Instagram posts

• Being a Human is Hard

• Parentification

• Discipline vs Capacity by Dr. Raquel Martin

• Feelings Graph

• 3 years of therapy in 1 minute

• Shadow Work by Dr. Jacob Ambrose

• High Conflict Personality

• What is Estrangement? and Families

• Why I’ve never liked “Love Languages”

• What Healing Isn’t

Other Favorite (non-therapy) Stuff

• Podcast - Zero to Well-Read

• Podcast - Nothing Much Happens

• Podcast - NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour

• Podcast - Reclaiming

• Videos - Hank Green, Crash Course

• Website - Equal Justice Initiative

• Website - The Mash-Up Americans

• Website - Theater of War

• Website - Gary’s Economics

• Book - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (trigger warning for sexual assault)

• Book (audio) & Movie - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

• Book series (audio) - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

• TV Show - The Diplomat

• TV Show - The Pitt