Trauma Resources.

Healing from trauma is not a linear path — it is a journey inward, toward the body, the psyche, and the spirit. At Holistic Trauma Therapy, we believe true healing integrates all layers of the self: the nervous system, the parts that protected you, the memories held in the body, and the deeper wisdom that lives beneath the wound. The resources below have been carefully selected to reflect that philosophy — depth-oriented, somatic, relational, and spiritually informed. Whether you are a client, a loved one, or a fellow clinician, we hope these offerings support your path toward wholeness.

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Books for Trauma / Complex Trauma:

  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma — Bessel van der Kolk, MD

  • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype — Clarissa Pinkola Estés

  • It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle — Mark Wolynn

  • The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships — Bonnie Badenoch; Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D.

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

  • The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture — Gabor Mate

  • Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship — Laurence Heller, Ph.D.; Aline LaPierre, Psy.D.

  • When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress — Gabor Mate, MD

  • Care of the Soul — Thomas Moore

  • Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual: Trauma-Informed Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, PTSD & Substance Abuse — Frank Anderson; Richard Schwartz; Martha Sweezy

  • Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror — Judith Lewis Herman, MD

  • Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl

  • Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma — Pete Walker

  • The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society — Henri Nouwen

  • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma — Peter A. Levine; Ann Frederick

  • In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness — Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.; Gabor Mate, MD

  • Memories, Dreams, Reflections — Carl Jung

  • Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation — Janina Fisher

  • No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model — Richard Schwartz, PhD

Books for Sexual Abuse Survivors:

  • Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse — Ellen Bass; Laura Davis

  • The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment — Babette Rothschild Bridges

  • Healing Sex: A Mind-Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma — Staci Haines

  • Victims No Longer: The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse — Mike Lew

  • The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse — Wendy Maltz

  • Allies in Healing: When the Person you Love was Sexually Abused as a Child — Laura Davis

Resources for Religious Trauma Survivors:

  • Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism — Robert Jay Lifton

  • Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems — Alexandra Stein

  • Combating Cult Mind Control — Steven Hassan

  • Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships — Janja Lalich

  • What My Bones Know — Stephanie Foo

  • Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation — Daniel Shaw

  • Escaping Utopia: Growing up in a Cult, Getting Out and Starting Over — Janja Lalich; Karla McLaren

  • International Cultic Studies Association - resource for current and former members of highly controlled groups or cults

Resources for Dissociative Disorders:

  • International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation — Resources for Complex Trauma and Dissociation

  • Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists — Suzette Boon; Kathy Steele

  • The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization — Van der Hart; Nijenhuis & Steele

  • Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders — Dell & O’Neil

  • Trauma and the Soul — Donald Kalsched

Crisis / Emergency Mental Health Services: