Counselling

Counselling is a type of talking therapy that allows a person to talk about their problems and feelings in a confidential and dependable environment. A counsellor is trained to listen with empathy (by putting themselves in their client's shoes). They are trained to help a client deal with any negative thoughts and feelings that they may have.
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Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
Outdated: Find Love That Lasts When Dating Has Changed
Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It
Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance
Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection
A Matter of Death and Life
The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain
And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Therapy
Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners
Your Brain's Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD
Raising Emotionally Strong Boys: Tools Your Son Can Build on for Life
Your Pocket Therapist: Break Free from Old Patterns and Transform Your Life
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change (Resources for Changing Lives)
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
Man’s Search for Meaning
When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man (Resources for Changing Lives)
How People Change
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
Competent to Counsel
Seeing with New Eyes: Counseling and the Human Condition Through the Lens of Scripture (Resources for Changing Lives)
The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
The Gifts of Imperfection
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksIn All Things by Ed  DavisManage My Emotions by Kenneth J. Martzدرمان شوپنهاور by Irvin D. Yalom
Stories for a Psychology Student
71 books — 29 voters
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyAll the Bright Places by Jennifer NivenMoving the Chains by Em Lyons BouchThe End of Miracles by Monica StarkmanSpeak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Mental health fiction
61 books — 46 voters

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklOn Becoming a Person by Carl R. RogersMotivational Interviewing by William R. MillerMemories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. JungDBT Skills Training by Marsha M. Linehan
Therapist's reading list
72 books — 27 voters
What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective ... by Martha Char LoveManage My Emotions by Kenneth J. MartzGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenAn Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield JamisonNight Falls Fast by Kay Redfield Jamison
Counselling Resources
37 books — 14 voters

Manage My Emotions by Kenneth J. MartzAnxiety by Danny WinterThe Fear of Doing Nothing by Valery HazanovOptimal Happiness by Roman RussoThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Counselling & Mental Health
13 books — 13 voters
The Psychopath Test by Jon RonsonThe Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy by Irvin D. YalomDelusions of Gender by Cordelia FineLove's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. YalomUnderstanding the Borderline Mother by Christine Ann Lawson
A Counseling Student's Compendium
57 books — 39 voters


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