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Registered Clinical Counselling | East Vancouver | Commercial Drive
A collection of books that have influenced my practice
The Body Keeps the Score
Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
This is a cornerstone text on the neurobiology of trauma. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk shows how traumatic experiences can reshape both the mind and body, and how, through neuroplasticity, healing and connection are possible. A clear, compassionate introduction to understanding trauma.
No Bad Parts
Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Written by the creator of IFS, Dr. Richard Schwartz, this book gives a full picture of parts work, and how to listen to and work with all parts of ourselves - even guarded, lonely, critical, and numb parts. It gives a really clear breakdown to a lot of the work that happens in IFS sessions.
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors
Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation
This is the foundational text for the work I do. Dr. Janina Fisher's trauma-informed model of parts work reveals how our survival responses - fight, flight, freeze, submit, and attach - become the parts we meet and heal in therapy. Her framework offers both a clear theory and a deeply humane roadmap for integrating the self.
Unmasking Autism
Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
Dr. Devon Price speaks from his experience as a queer, Autistic person on how people learn to mask in an unaccepting, neurotypical world. He invites readers to see how embracing autism means shedding that mask, and finding safe ways to share yourself with the world.
Please Yourself:
How to Stop People Pleasing and Transform the Way You Live
This book unpacks the roots of people-pleasing - how if often arises as a strategy to manage others' emotions and keep ourselves safe. It's full of thoughtful exercises and reflections that offer a path toward fostering more kindness toward ourselves, and a more balanced connection with others.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
This book speaks to adults who have been shaped by immature, unavailable, or selfish parents. It offers practical guidance for responding with clarity, reducing disappointment, and finding a way out of painful relationship patterns. Those who have read it have found it both validating and empowering - a clear language for their experiences a a roadmap toward healthier relationships.
The Highly Sensitive Person
Dr. Elaine Aron introduces the concept of the Highly Sensitive Person, and the research behind it. This book helps readers identify this trait and better understand themselves, offering tools to create a fuller, richer life. It's been an eye opening book for many of my clients.
(Also by the same author: The Highly Sensitive Child, and The Highly Sensitive Peron in Love).
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
A therapist, her therapist...and her observations and insights, both clinical and personal. The author talks about her clients, what goes on in her mind as a therapist, and her own experience in the client seat. It speaks with humour of all the missteps and strides that we make as humans.
The State of Affairs
Rethinking Infidelity
Esther Perel covers the very common and yet often poorly understood topic of affairs in relationships. She examines at what infidelity can reveal about what people want, feel entitled to, and expect in relationships. This book deepens the conversation around an often limited and polarized topic.
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I am currently offering online and in-person sessions on East Vancouver Counselling, on Commercial Drive. If you are uncertain about online counselling, I really recommend giving it a chance. Video calls can be as worthwhile as in-person counselling is, and often clients even prefer it to in-person meetings.
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