Trusted Resources
from Mindset Counseling Center
Books, podcasts, and trusted tools to support your journey between sessions.
Support Beyond the Counseling Room
Sometimes the hardest part of healing is knowing where to start. While counseling offers the most personalized support, we also know it helps to have tools and encouragement along the way. That’s why our team has gathered books, podcasts, and trusted resources we often recommend to clients, so you can continue your growth between sessions or find comfort while you consider beginning therapy.
Books for Healing & Growth
Evidence-based and heart-centered resources to support growth between therapy sessions.
Talking Back to OCD: The Program That Helps Kids and Teens Say “No Way” — and Parents Say “Way to Go”
By Dr. John S. March & Christine M. Benton
This empowering guide offers kids, teens, and parents practical tools to take control of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. Dr. John March combines science and compassion to help families understand OCD and build confidence in overcoming it together.
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
By Dr. Daniel J. Siegel & Dr. Tina Payne Bryson
This practical guide helps parents understand how a child’s brain develops — and how to turn everyday struggles into opportunities for growth. Siegel and Bryson offer clear, science-backed strategies to help children calm emotions, build empathy, and strengthen connection with their caregivers.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
By Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
A groundbreaking exploration of how trauma reshapes both body and mind — and how healing can begin through understanding this connection. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk blends neuroscience and compassion to reveal how therapies like EMDR, mindfulness, and body-based practices can restore safety and wholeness.
The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A Proven Way to Accept Yourself, Build Inner Strength, and Thrive
By Dr. Kristin Neff & Dr. Christopher Germer
This practical workbook offers powerful tools to quiet self-criticism and build inner kindness through mindfulness and self-compassion practices. With step-by-step exercises, Neff and Germer help readers strengthen emotional resilience, reduce anxiety, and nurture a more balanced sense of self-worth.
Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships
By Dr. Sue Johnson
Based on groundbreaking research in attachment and Emotionally Focused Therapy, Love Sense reveals the science behind lasting love — and how emotional connection is the key to strong, secure relationships. Dr. Sue Johnson offers practical guidance to help couples understand their patterns, heal old wounds, and reconnect with warmth and trust.
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
By Dr. Richard Schwartz
This transformative book introduces Internal Family Systems (IFS), a therapy model that teaches us to view every part of ourselves — even the ones we struggle with — with compassion rather than judgment. Dr. Schwartz guides readers toward inner harmony and healing by helping them reconnect with their true, centered Self.
Created for Connection: The “Hold Me Tight” Guide for Christian Couples
By Dr. Sue Johnson
Grounded in both faith and science, this book helps couples rediscover emotional closeness through the power of secure, loving connection. Dr. Sue Johnson blends her proven Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) approach with Christian principles to guide partners toward healing, trust, and lasting love.
Parenting from the Inside Out
By Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. & Mary Hartzell, M.Ed.
This insightful book helps parents understand how their own childhood experiences shape the way they connect with their children. Through self-awareness and reflection, Siegel and Hartzell offer tools to build stronger, more empathetic relationships at home.
Understanding the Long-Term Impact of Childhood Trauma
Healing starts with awareness. This fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services explores how early experiences of abuse or neglect can shape emotional, physical, and relational health into adulthood — and why early intervention and compassionate care make a difference.
Podcasts That Inspire
They will be discussing Emotionally Focused Therapy, Whole Brain Child, and mindfulness as well as the role of the Gut-Brain Axis in relation to our brain and mind.
Our podcast features nationally-acclaimed sex therapist, author, and blogger, co-host Laurie Watson, PhD, LMFT talking with co-host George Faller, LMFT – global leader in couples therapy, author, and supervisor & trainer in Emotionally Focused Therapy about the vital topics of sexuality, marriage, eroticism, and committed partnership. With decades of counseling experience for each of them, these two internationally-known therapists bring you concrete tools for your relationship.
Fall in-love again. Rebuild trust. Rediscover desire.
Richard Schwartz began his career as a systemic family therapist and an academic and has developed Internal Family Systems (IFS) in response to clients’ descriptions of various parts within themselves. He focused on the relationships among these parts and noticed that there were systemic patterns to the way they were organized across clients. Dr. Schwartz found that when the clients’ parts felt safe and were allowed to relax, they would spontaneously experience the qualities of confidence, openness, and compassion that he came to call the Self. He also found that when in that state of Self, clients would know how to heal their parts. Richard is a featured speaker for national professional organizations and has published many books and over fifty articles about IFS.