Book Club

Recommended Reads

Neurodiversity Books

Book cover titled 'The Other Version of You' by A. S. Whitfield. Features an illustration of two women, one in front and one behind, both with similar expressions, against a blue background. Subtitle mentions understanding PMDD and ADHD.
Cover page of a workbook titled "The Autistic Burnout Workbook," with guidance on sensory self-care, masking, spoon theory, nervous system regulation, and more, authored by Dr. Megan Anna Neff.
A colorful burst of light with white text that reads "WIRED TO FEEL" and smaller blue text that says "Autism as a condition of sensory surplus," with the authors' names and a foreword attribution below.
Cover of the book titled 'The Autism's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult' by Sol Smith, featuring colorful abstract patterns and a quote from Shawn C. Horn, PsyD.
Book cover titled 'Complex PTSD: The Neurodivergent Wound' by A. S. Whitfield, with subtitle about trauma, chronic invalidation, and recovery; features a white line drawing of a human figure with brain and nervous system details on a blue background.
Book cover titled 'Living Sensationally: Understanding Your Senses' by Winnie Dunn, featuring a woman in a green jacket standing in a field of yellow flowers under a partly cloudy sky.
Book cover titled 'The ADHD Wound' by A. S. Whitfield, discussing rejection, dysphoria, and emotional pain, with a line drawing of a human figure with a crack in the chest.
Book cover titled "All Dogs Have ADHD" by Kathy Hoopmann, featuring a Dalmatian dog holding a tennis ball in its mouth. Listed on Canine Connected Counseling as a recommended read for neurodiversity.
Book cover with colorful text. Title: "Too Loud to Bright, Too Fast to Tightly." Subtitle: "What to do if you are sensory defensive in an overstimulating world." Author: Sharon Heller, Ph.D. with a foreword by Moya Kinnealey, Ph.D.
Book cover titled "The Autistic Collapse" by A. S. Whitfield, depicting a person sitting on the floor in a dimly lit room with a window, next to a coffee mug, and a shirt on the ground, with a blue background.
Book cover titled "Finding Yourself Beneath the Mask" by Emery Solvik, featuring an illustration of a person holding and looking at a mask.
Book cover titled 'All Cats Are on the Autism Spectrum' by Kathy Hoopmann with an orange tabby cat reaching for a yellow cat toy on a string. A recommended book by Jessica Allen, LCSW, C-AAIS, AAT-I in Buffalo, NY
Neurodivergence in a neurotypical world.
Book cover titled 'Your Brain's Not Broken' by Tamara Rosier, PhD, with a subtitle 'Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD' and a blue background. Recommended by Jessica Allen LCSW at Cnanie Connected Counseling in Lancaster, NY
Book cover titled "The PDA Wound" by A. S. Whitfield, with a subtitle about understanding pathological demand avoidance and brain behavior, featuring an illustration of a hand touching a door handle with the words "Pointed-Pen Press" at the bottom.
Book cover titled "The ADHD Wound" by A. S. Whitfield, discussing burnout and recovery from losing one's identity.

Parenting Books

Cover of the book titled "The Explosive Child" Sixth Edition by Ross W. Greene, Ph.D., with a blue header highlighting its popularity and a quote from Edward M. Hallowell.
Book titled "Raising a Sensory Smart Child" by Lindsey Biel and Nancy Peske, featuring a smiling young girl with sensory processing issues sitting on a swing.
Cover of the book titled 'No-Drama Discipline' with a subtitle about calming chaos and nurturing a developing child's mind. Features a silhouette of a woman kneeling and holding hands with a young boy, against a blue circular background.
Book cover titled "The Whole-Brain Child" by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. and Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D., with a silhouette of a child's head and colorful text. Highlighted text mentions "New York Times Bestseller" and "Over 2 million copies sold."
Book cover titled 'The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up' by Carol Stock Kranowitz with a photo of children running in a field at sunset.
Book cover titled 'The Out-of-Sync Child' by Carol Stock Kranowitz, MA, with preface by Lucy Jane Miller, PhD, OTR. The cover features a close-up of a child's face, highlighting one eye.
Book cover titled "Big Kids, Bigger Feelings" by Alyssa Blask Campbell. Features icons of a water bottle, smartphone, pencil, and headphones. Subtitle: "Navigating Defiance, Meltdowns, and Anxiety to Raise Confident, Connected Kids."
Book cover titled 'Tiny Humans, Big Emotions' with a subtitle about navigating tantrums, meltdowns, and defiance in children. The cover features cheerful emoticons representing different emotions and mentions authors Alyssa Blask Campbell and Lauren Stauble.

Animal-Assisted Therapy Books

Cover of 'Handbook on Animal-Assisted Therapy, Sixth Edition,' featuring silhouettes of a girl, a horse, a dog, and a cat, with a bird in flight, all set against a maroon and gold background.
Book cover titled 'Constructing Canine Consent' by Erin Jones, featuring a colorful abstract painting of a dog walking on wet sand at sunset with clouds reflected in the water.
Book cover titled 'Animal Assisted Play Therapy' with multiple pictures of dogs, children, and horses engaging in various activities related to animal-assisted therapy.
Cover of a book titled 'Animal Assisted Therapy' showing a dog wearing a therapy vest, stacked colorful blocks with animals and numbers, and exercise rings on a floor with a white background.
Book cover titled 'Taming with Your Therapy Dog' showing a man in a striped shirt using a walker, receiving a therapy dog in a blue vest from a woman in a gray cardigan, in a room with large windows.
Book cover titled 'Teaming Up with Therapy Dogs: Skills to Build Healing Partnerships' by Susan Hartzler, featuring a photo of a person petting a happy dog outdoors.
Book cover titled 'Transforming Trauma: Resilience and Healing Through Our Connections with Animals,' edited by Philip Tedeschi and Molly Anne Jenkins, featuring a black and white silhouette of a child and a dog facing each other.
Cover of a book titled 'Animal-Assisted Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Clinician's Guide' by Linda Chassman Craddock and Ellen Kinney Winton. The cover features a collage of images showing various animals, including a cat, a horse, a goat, chickens, a puppy, and people interacting with these animals in outdoor and clinical settings.

Trauma Therapy Books

Book cover titled "No Bad Parts" by Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, with a foreword by Alanis Morissette. The cover features a minimalist, abstract line drawing of a face combined with colorful shapes in yellow, green, and orange, representing concepts of healing trauma and restoring wholeness.
Book cover of 'The Biology of Trauma' by Aimie Apigian, MD, with a blue water-themed border and a gold badge indicating USA Today Bestseller status.
Book cover titled "The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D., with a blue background and an abstract illustration of a black figure surrounded by yellow starburst shapes, with a white border and the Penguin logo.
Book cover with floral illustrations and crossed bones, titled 'What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma' by Stephanie Foo.
Cover of the book 'It Didn't Start With You' by Mark Wolynn, featuring illustrations of two human profiles and a DNA strand, with the title, subtitle, author's name, and reviewer endorsements.
Book cover titled "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents" by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, with subtitle "How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents," featuring silhouette illustrations of a family of two adults and two children and a circular orange badge indicating "More than 1.5 million copies sold."
Book cover titled 'Listening In' by Carrie DeJong, with a subtitle about improving mental and emotional health through introspection, featuring abstract blue and yellow background design.
Book cover titled 'EMDR Therapy: A Guide for Emotional Recovery Inside' by Lisa Martin, featuring two watercolor circles, one blue and one orange, connected by a thin line.

Chronic Illness Books

Book cover titled "Mast Cell Activation Syndrome: Calming the Reactive Body" by A. S. Whitfield. The cover features a blue background with a white outline of a human figure and five highlighted areas with radiating lines, representing mast cell activation points.
Book cover titled 'Dysautonomia: Defeating the Invisible' by A. S. Whitfield. The cover features a blue background with a white line drawing of a human upper back and nervous system.
Book cover titled 'Histamine Intolerance Explained' by A. S. Whitfield, with a blue background and a white line drawing of a cell or biological structure, labeled as a pointed-pen press.
Book cover for 'Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: The Hypermobile Body' by A. S. Whitfield, featuring a blue background, white text, and a white line drawing of a human body with joints marked.
Book cover titled "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" by A. S. Whitfield, with subtitle "More Than Tired" and a simple outline of a person with a highlighted area on the stomach. The background is blue.
Book cover titled 'Anchored' by Deb Dana, featuring a gold tree with a complex root system on a beige background, with the subtitle 'How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory'.
Cover of a book titled 'The Dysautonomia Project' with images of doctors and patients, and a gold sticker indicating it is a winner of the President's Book Awards.
Book cover titled 'Medicine Is Not Enough: Finding Meaning and Resilience in Chronic Illness' by Alana Carr, with a watercolor background and a stethoscope illustration.
Cover of a book titled "The Fibro Manual" by Ginevra Liptan, M.D., featuring a stylized outline of a woman's torso with circles indicating pain points, and a quote at the top about integrative approaches to western medicine.
Book cover titled 'Posts Unlocked.' Subtitle: 'Simple Guide to Reduce Daily Symptoms, Manage Your Nervous System, Reclaim Your Energy & Start Living Well.' The cover features a yellow sun with a flock of birds flying across it portrayed with black silhouettes. The authors' names are Jesica Flores and Edwin Flores, Ph.D.
Book cover titled "When the Body Says No" by Gabor Maté, M.D., exploring the stress-disease connection, with a quote from Peter Levine at the top.
Book cover titled "Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness" by Ilana Jacqueline, featuring watercolor illustrations of hummingbirds and a partially visible woman with flowers.

Canine Behavior Books

Book cover of 'The Other End of the Leash' by Patricia B. McConnell Ph.D., featuring a black-and-white photo of a person walking a dog on a leash in a park.
Illustration of a dog and a cat with speech bubbles, and a yellow and black dog, on the cover of a book titled 'Doggie Language' by Lili Chin.
The book cover titled 'On Talking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals' by Turid Rugaas, featuring a woman with long white hair in a black sweater with white patterns, sitting outdoors with a brown dog in a wooded area.
Book cover titled 'The Culture Clash' by Jean Donaldson, featuring an image of a woman and a dog.
Book cover titled 'Control Unleashed: Creating a Focused and Confident Dog' featuring various dogs on an agility course with animals and children in the background.
Book cover titled 'Reaching the Animal Mind' by Karen Pryor, featuring a smiling dog on a grassy background, with a red badge indicating award and bonus material.
Book cover titled "Decoding Your Dog" featuring a brown and white dog with floppy ears.
Book cover titled 'Embracing the Animal's Perspective: Living Our Best Lives With Companion Animals' by Rise VanFleet, featuring a close-up of a dog with brown, white, and black fur looking at the camera.

Children’s Books

Children riding a roller coaster with colorful, exaggerated brain and internal body parts, illustrating a fun and educational approach to understanding internal family systems.
Cover of a book titled 'Parts of Me: A Teen's Guide to Exploring the Inner World with Internal Family Systems' by Calandra Balfour. The cover features a multicolored heart-shaped swirl with torn edges.
Cover of a children's book titled 'My Body Sends a Signal,' showing a child with dark, curly hair, thinking with various emotion words around her such as happy, proud, scared, angry, and sad. The background is blue with playful, colorful text and illustrations.
Cover illustration of a children's book titled "Dealing with Feelings," featuring a frustrated boy with glasses and a happy girl with pigtails, surrounded by icons of hearts, stars, question marks, speech bubbles, and a light bulb, on an orange background.
Cover of a children's book titled 'I Can Do Hard Things: Mindful Affirmations for Kids' featuring diverse children happy and hugging each other.
Colorful box set of five hardcover children's books titled "World of Kids' Emotions" by Elizabeth Cole, illustrated by Julia Kameshikov, with a theme of various emotions like anger, anxiety, kindness, diversity, mindfulness, featuring children on the cover.
Cover of the book titled "I Am Human: A Book of Empathy" by Susan Verde, with art by Peter H. Reynolds. The cover features an illustration of a smiling person with arms outstretched, surrounded by a colorful circle of diverse, happy faces.
A cartoon girl with blue hair, glasses, and a big smile holding a first place trophy and wearing a gold medal. Next to her is a small, surprised-looking cartoon cat named Brenda Li. The image promotes a story about growth mindset and making mistakes.
Children sitting on a wooden floor, one holding a chart with colored smiley faces, the other with a rainbow design on their shirt, and speech bubbles with the text 'Welcome to Therapy' and a subtitle about counseling for kids.