As you take your journey into mental serenity, your path might involve ups and downs. In counseling, we help our clients find insight into their feelings, behaviors, and past. While therapy can help in many different ways it is up to you to keep growing. Your therapist will help you learn new ways to look at the world. When we work with clients we encourage them to do homework and read recommended therapy books. This list of recommended therapy books for Richer Life Counseling Las Vegas is updated monthly. We also will write specific book reviews on books that are published monthly (Please check this page monthly as the Recommended Therapy Books will be updated monthly)
Relationship-Specific Books
There are some amazing relationship books that you can read, and there are some relationship books that are not that helpful. Below is a list of 5 books that I recommend to all couples. We also created a sublist of book resources that could be helpful for you in the search for the best book for your sisutions.
Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner’s Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship by Stan Tatkin PsyD MFT and Harville Hendrix PhD
Wired for Loveis a complete insider’s guide to understanding your partner’s brain and enjoying a romantic relationship built on love and trust. Synthesizing research findings on how and why love lasts drawn from neuroscience, attachment theory, and emotion regulation, this book presents ten guiding principles that can improve any relationship.
Read my review for Wired For Love.
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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert by John Gottman PhD, Nan Silver
John Gottman’s unprecedented study of couples over a period of years has allowed him to observe the habits that can make—and break—a marriage. Here is the culmination of that work: the seven principles that guide couples on a path toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship. Straightforward yet profound, these principles teach partners new approaches for resolving conflicts, creating new common ground, and achieving greater levels of intimacy.
Read my review for The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
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Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships by Sue Johnson
Every day, we hear of relationships failing and questions of whether humans are meant to be monogamous. LOVE SENSE presents new scientific evidence that tells us that humans are meant to mate for life. Dr. Johnson explains that romantic love is an attachment bond, just like that between mother and child, and shows us how to develop our “love sense”–our ability to develop long-lasting relationships. Love is not the least bit illogical or random, but actually an ordered and wise recipe for survival. LOVE SENSE covers the three stages of a relationship and how to best weather them; the intelligence of emotions and the logic of love; the physical and psychological benefits of secure love; and much more. Based on groundbreaking research, LOVE SENSE will change the way we think about love.
Read my review for Love Sense (Coming Soon)
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Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Sue Johnson
In Hold Me Tight, Dr. Sue Johnson presents Emotionally Focused Therapy to the general public for the first time. Johnson teaches that the way to save and enrich a relationship is to reestablish
Read my review for Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
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The Relationship Cure: A 5-Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships by John Gottmanhttps://amzn.to/2SSnFlx
Gottman provides the tools you need to make your relationships thrive. In The Relationship Cure, Dr. Gottman:
- Reveals the key elements of healthy relationships, emphasizing the importance of what he calls “emotional connection”
- Introduces the powerful new concept of the emotional “bid,” the fundamental unit of emotional connection
- Provides remarkably empowering tools for improving the way you bid for emotional connection and how you respond to others’ bids
Read my review for The Relationship Cure: A 5-Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships (coming soon)
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- Other Good Books About Relationships
- Books On Infideiloity
LGBT Specific Books
The list of recommended therapy books for the LGBT community focuses on specific issues that the gay community might face. We also want to have a list of resources for members fo the gay community and their allies to be able to find any the help they need. Please leave a comment below if you would like to have a category added. If you would like to read more about our LGBT community blog click here.
- LGBT Biographies
- Coming Out
- Parenting For both LGBT parents and parents of LGBT children
- Religion
- LGBT History and Culture
- Books for Therapist to use in treatment with the Queer community
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