Below is a selection of books that inform my practice. It includes books on psychology, trauma, sociology, history, and culture.

Body

Anti-Diet: Reclaim your time, money well-being and happiness through intuitive eating by Christy Harrison

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown

Gender, Sexuality and Relationships

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern

Polywise: A Deeper Dive into Navigating Open Relationships by Jessica Fern with David Cooley

Ace: What asexuality reveals about desire, society and the meaning of sex by Angela Chen

The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the pain of growing up gay in a straight man’s world by Alan Downs

Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step Into Your Most Authentic Self by Rae McDaniel

History

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones

Memoir

Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing From Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

Who is Wellness For? by Fariha Roisin

Neurodiversity

Neuroqueer Heresies by Nick Walker

Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Patient by Elaine N. Aron

Unmasking Autism: Uncovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price

Unmasking for Life: The Autistic Person’s Guide to Connecting, Loving and Living Authentically by Devon Price

Psychology

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Sociology

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit

Trauma

The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel van der Kolk

Trauma and Recovery, by Judith Herman

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture, by Gabor Mate

My Grandmother’s Hands, by Resmaa Menakem

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGruy