EMDR Therapy & Mental Health Resources in Vancouver
Explore articles, guides, and practical resources about EMDR therapy, trauma, anxiety, relationships, grief, fertility, and mental health. Whether you're preparing to begin therapy or looking to deepen your understanding of healing, these resources are here to support you
Healing doesn’t only happen in the therapy room. Books, podcasts, articles, and simple exercises can also offer meaningful support—whether that’s new insight, reassurance, or practical tools to return to between sessions.
This collection brings together resources that have resonated with me and that I have recommend to clients. Whether you’re beginning therapy, continuing your healing journey, or simply wanting to better understand yourself, I hope you find something here that feels supportive along the way.
Trauma & Nervous System
These are some of the books I recommend most often for understanding trauma, the nervous system, and why our bodies respond the way they do.
- The Wisdom of Your Body — Hillary McBride
- It's Not Always Depression — Hilary Jacobs Hendel
- What My Bones Know — Stephanie Foo
- The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma — Laurence Heller
- Mindsight — Dan Siegel
- Anchored — Deb Dana
- Becoming Safely Embodied — Deirdre Fay
- Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve — Stanley Rosenberg
Relationships & Attachment
- Hold Me Tight — Sue Johnson
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work — John Gottman
- Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic — Esther Perel
- Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy — Jessica Fern
- Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship — Stan Tatkin
Parenting (which double as great relationship books)
- Good Inside — Becky Kennedy
- Parents Have Feelings Too — Hilary Jacobs Hendel
- The Whole Brain Child — Dan Siegel
- The Power of Showing Up — Dan Siegel
Self-Compassion & Personal Growth
- Radical Acceptance — Tara Brach
- No Bad Parts — Richard Schwartz
- The Gifts of Imperfection — Brené Brown
- Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents— Lindsay Gibson
Therapy & Psychology (for therapists and the deeply curious)
- Undoing Aloneness — Diana Fosha
- Transforming Power of Affect — Diana Fosha
- EMDR For Complex Trauma — Thomas Zimmerman
- The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality —Andy Clark
- It's Not Me: Understanding Complex Trauma, Attachment and Dissociation — Anabel González
Podcasts
Podcasts
- Good Inside — Parenting
- We Can Do Hard Things
- Therapy for Black Girls
- The Happiness Lab
- Go With That
Real therapy sessions
- Other People's Problems
- Where Should We Begin?
