Resources
Books, workbooks and games I often recommend to clients, grouped by topic. These are starting points, not substitutes for therapy. If something here speaks to you, bring it to a session and we can work with it together.
Couples
For couples considering therapy together, start with Are You and Your Partner a Good Fit to Work with Susan?
Books
- The Smart Stepfamily Marriage: Keys to Success in the Blended Family
- After the Affair, Third Edition: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful
- How to Help Your Spouse Heal From Your Affair: A Compact Manual for the Unfaithful
- The 5 Love Languages®: The Secret to Love that Lasts
- Communicate Your Feelings (without starting a fight): What to Say and What Not to Say to Your Partner
- Mastering Your Emotions with Your Spouse and Others: Seven Steps for Transforming Emotional Reactivity
- Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage: America’s Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship
Workbooks
- Infidelity Recovery Workbook for Couples: Tools and Exercises to Rebuild Your Relationship
- Infidelity Journal: For The Betrayed Partner (The Infidelity Recovery Collection)
- Love More, Fight Less: Communication Skills Every Couple Needs
- Couples Communication Workbook: A Couple’s Intimacy Workbook With 10 Steps for Conflict Resolution
- The Ultimate Relationship Workbook for Couples: Simple Exercises to Improve Communication and Strengthen Your Bond
- The Ultimate Fun Book for Couples: 60 Exciting and Lighthearted Quizzes, Games, and Challenges
Games
- We’re Not Really Strangers Card Game
- The Adventure Challenge, Couples Edition: 50 Scratch-Off Date Night Ideas
- 200 Couples Conversation Cards & Date Night Question Game
- One Year of Love: Date Night Deck with Date Ideas and Conversation Starters
- Marital Bliss: The Real-Life Secret Mission Couples Game
- Love Lingual: The Original Couples Card Game
- Couple Reconnect 3-in-1 Game: 200 Conversation Cards and 100 Scratch-Off Date Adventures
- Deeper Connections: Card Game for Couples with 200 Relationship Questions
- Better Together Couples Card Game
- The Ultimate Game for Couples
- 200 Fresh Conversation Starters for Couples
Depression
Books
- How To Be Instantly Happy: A Two Week Daily Guide
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression: Essential Strategies to Manage Negative Thoughts and Start Living Your Life
- Feeling Good: Overcome Depression and Anxiety with Proven Techniques
- The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living
- Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think
- I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
Workbooks
- Depression Journal: Daily Check-In
- The Anxiety and Depression Workbook: Simple, Effective CBT Techniques to Manage Moods and Feel Better Now
- Essential Art Therapy Exercises: Effective Techniques to Manage Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD
- The CBT Workbook for Mental Health: Evidence-Based Exercises to Transform Negative Thoughts and Manage Your Well-Being
- The CBT Toolbox, Second Edition: 185 Tools to Manage Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Behaviors & Stress
Anxiety
Books
- Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present
- Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry
- Attacking Anxiety: From Panicked and Depressed to Alive and Free
- Winning the War on Worry: Cultivate a Peaceful Heart and a Confident Mind
- The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body’s Fear Response
- Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning & End of Suffering
- Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind
- Untangle Your Anxiety: A Guide to Overcoming an Anxiety Disorder by Two People Who Have Been Through It
Workbooks
- I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
- The Anxiety Check-In: A Guided Journal to Support Your Mental Health and Help You Through the Hard Days
- Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick
- The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
- Anxiety Relief Coloring Book for Adults: Mindfulness Coloring to Soothe Anxiety
Communication
Books
- A Couple’s Guide to Communication
- 4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work, Anywhere
- Communicate Your Feelings (without starting a fight): What to Say and What Not to Say to Your Partner
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