Therapy Essentials Book List
1. 
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma 4.36 avg rating — 255,259 ratings
2. 
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
by:
Emily Nagoski
4.28 avg rating — 81,148 ratings 3. 
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
by:
Lori Gottlieb
4.37 avg rating — 385,818 ratings 
5. 
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
by:
Irvin D. Yalom
4.32 avg rating — 27,472 ratings 
7. 
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
by:
Resmaa Menakem
4.39 avg rating — 11,190 ratings 8. 
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
by:
Michael Pollan
4.27 avg rating — 82,447 ratings 9. 
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others 4.29 avg rating — 6,858 ratings
10. 
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by:
Susan Cain
4.08 avg rating — 465,754 ratings 11. 
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
by:
Emily Nagoski
3.93 avg rating — 62,218 ratings 12. 
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
by:
Jessica Fern
4.37 avg rating — 14,847 ratings 13. 
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
by:
Brené Brown
4.29 avg rating — 236,451 ratings 
15. 
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
by:
Lundy Bancroft
4.48 avg rating — 16,874 ratings 16. 
Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices
by:
Deb Dana
4.30 avg rating — 571 ratings 17. 
Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
by:
Kristin Neff
4.13 avg rating — 24,944 ratings 17. 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating — 239,840 ratings 19. 
The Fear of Doing Nothing: Notes of a Young Therapist
by:
Valery Hazanov
4.43 avg rating — 183 ratings 20. 
The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation
by:
Deb Dana
4.36 avg rating — 1,671 ratings 21. 
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
by:
Francis Weller
4.38 avg rating — 3,035 ratings 22. 
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
by:
Gavin de Becker
4.18 avg rating — 49,300 ratings 23. 
Empowered Boundaries: Speaking Truth, Setting Boundaries, and Inspiring Social Change
by:
Cristien Storm
3.95 avg rating — 200 ratings 24. 
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
by:
Gabor Maté
4.49 avg rating — 22,314 ratings 25. 
Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse 4.66 avg rating — 126 ratings
26. 
Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It
by:
Gabor Maté
4.30 avg rating — 17,843 ratings 27. 
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
by:
Mark Wolynn
3.55 avg rating — 34,988 ratings 28. 
Radical Belonging: How to Survive + Thrive in an Unjust World
by:
Lindo Bacon
4.08 avg rating — 460 ratings 29. 
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by:
Cheryl Strayed
4.07 avg rating — 850,564 ratings 
31. 
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
by:
Irvin D. Yalom
4.25 avg rating — 39,920 ratings 32. 
34. 
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
by:
Amir Levine
4.14 avg rating — 113,138 ratings 35. 
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
by:
Elaine N. Aron
3.84 avg rating — 52,852 ratings 36. 
The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation 4.11 avg rating — 748 ratings
37. 
Polyvagal Flip Chart: Understanding the Science of Safety
by:
Deb Dana
4.40 avg rating — 128 ratings 
40. 
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity 4.43 avg rating — 10,878 ratings
43. 
The Empath's Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People
by:
Judith Orloff
3.83 avg rating — 7,622 ratings 
48. 
The Making of a Therapist (Norton Professional Books)
by:
Louis Cozolino
4.39 avg rating — 1,552 ratings 48. 
The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
by:
Dossie Easton
3.94 avg rating — 26,256 ratings 50. 
Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past
by:
Peter A. Levine
4.14 avg rating — 1,307 ratings 50. 
The Right Rehab: A Guide to Addiction and Mental Illness Recovery When Crisis Hits Your Family
by:
Walter Wolf
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 50. 
I'm Ascending, Now What?: Awaken Your Authentic Self, Own Your Power, Embody Your Truth
by:
Sydney Campos
4.06 avg rating — 35 ratings 53. 
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
by:
Rick Hanson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14,705 ratings 53. 
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
by:
Carl R. Rogers
4.16 avg rating — 18,086 ratings 
56. 
Cognitive Therapy of Depression (The Guilford Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology Series)
by:
Aaron T. Beck
4.17 avg rating — 908 ratings 57. 
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
by:
Cheryl Strayed
4.15 avg rating — 137,895 ratings 57. 
59. 
A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development
by:
John Bowlby
4.23 avg rating — 988 ratings 61. 
Counseling Latinos and la familia: A Practical Guide (Multicultural Aspects of Counseling series) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
62. 
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
by:
Pat Ogden
4.48 avg rating — 263 ratings 64. 
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative 3.97 avg rating — 14,021 ratings
65. 
Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind
by:
Theodore Roszak
4.22 avg rating — 439 ratings 66. 
Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology
by:
Theodore Roszak
4.12 avg rating — 162 ratings 
70. 
The Mindfulness Workbook for Anxiety: The 8-Week Solution to Help You Manage Anxiety, Worry & Stress 4.03 avg rating — 94 ratings
71. 
Overcoming Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors: A Comprehensive Behavioral Treatment for Hair Pulling and Skin Picking 4.26 avg rating — 272 ratings
72. 
73. 
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do 4.32 avg rating — 8,625 ratings
77. 
The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT
by:
Russ Harris
4.14 avg rating — 19,541 ratings 
79. 
80. 
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families 4.16 avg rating — 27,320 ratings
81. 
82. 
I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
by:
Terrence Real
4.30 avg rating — 4,275 ratings 83. 
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
by:
Jon Kabat-Zinn
4.16 avg rating — 15,717 ratings 84. 
Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder 4.23 avg rating — 3,379 ratings
85. 
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety
by:
Sarah Wilson
3.77 avg rating — 16,380 ratings 
87. 
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
by:
Jenny Lawson
3.89 avg rating — 171,423 ratings 
89. 
90. 
Practicing Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: An Alternative Approach to Addictions
by:
Patt Denning
4.20 avg rating — 60 ratings 91. 
Maps of Narrative Practice (Norton Professional Books (Hardcover))
by:
Michael White
4.35 avg rating — 569 ratings 
95. 
96. 
The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
by:
Naoki Higashida
3.88 avg rating — 61,099 ratings 
99. 
Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
by:
Temple Grandin
4.10 avg rating — 16,787 ratings 100. 
Once a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey
by:
Jo Ivester
4.30 avg rating — 1,229 ratings