For your journey
Personal Growth
Videos, recommended reading from our clinicians, and a printable reflection worksheet — gentle companions for your healing and growth between sessions.
Videos
Talks, animations, and channels our clinicians return to. Each card opens in a new tab.
Trauma and the Nervous System: A Polyvagal Perspective
An 8-minute animated introduction to how trauma and chronic stress shape the nervous system — based on the work of Stephen Porges, Deb Dana, and Peter Levine.
Watch on YouTubeHow to Stop OCD Thoughts (The Doubt Lexicon)
Short-form clinician content on managing intrusive doubt.
Search on YouTubeOCD: Starving The Monster — Tauscha Johanson
TEDxIdahoFalls talk on living with and treating OCD.
Search on YouTubeNeil Hilborn — OCD (poem)
A widely-shared spoken-word poem about OCD and love.
Search on YouTubeJohn Green on how a lifetime of OCD inspired Turtles All The Way Down
The author shares his lived experience of OCD.
Search on YouTubeOCD and Anxiety
YouTube channel with psychoeducation on OCD and anxiety.
Search on YouTubeOCD Space
YouTube channel for community, education, and recovery stories.
Search on YouTubeRecommended Reading
Books that have shaped how our clinicians think about healing and growth.
Trauma & Healing
Brainspotting
David Grand
The foundational text on Brainspotting — a powerful method for processing trauma stored in the subcortical brain.
The Complex PTSD Workbook
Arielle Schwartz
A practical guide to healing from complex trauma using mind-body approaches.
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
David Treleaven
How to practice and teach mindfulness safely for trauma survivors.
My Grandmother's Hands
Resmaa Menakem
Exploring how racialized trauma lives in the body and pathways toward healing.
Healing Trauma
Peter Levine
A pioneering program for restoring the body's natural ability to resolve traumatic stress.
The Myth of Normal
Gabor Maté
A deep look at how our culture creates illness and what true healing requires.
No Bad Parts
Richard Schwartz
An accessible introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) and healing through self-compassion.
Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma
Janina Fisher
Understanding how trauma fragments the self and how to work toward integration.
What Happened to You?
Bruce D. Perry & Oprah Winfrey
Shifts the question from 'What's wrong with you?' to 'What happened to you?'
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
A groundbreaking exploration of how trauma reshapes the body and brain.
OCD & Anxiety
The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD
Jon Hershfield & Tom Corboy
A practical, exercise-rich workbook integrating mindfulness with CBT for OCD.
Freedom From Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Jonathan Grayson
A foundational guide to ERP and acceptance — companion worksheets available from the author.
Turtles All the Way Down
John Green
A novel that captures the lived, intrusive experience of OCD.
Kiss Me Like a Stranger
Gene Wilder
Memoir touching on anxiety and ruminating thoughts the actor lived with.
Personal Growth
The Tools
Phil Stutz & Barry Michels
The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life
Sahil Bloom
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End of Suffering
Joseph Nguyen
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar
Cheryl Strayed
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Miguel Ruiz
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find — and Keep — Love
Amir Levine & Rachel S.F. Heller
Codependent No More: How To Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring For Yourself
Melody Beattie
Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood
Satya Doyle Byock
Be Healed: A Guide to Encountering the Powerful Love of Jesus in Your Life
Bob Schuchts
Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
Jennie Allen
The Gifts of Imperfection
Brené Brown
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts
Gary Chapman
Managing Oneself
Peter F. Drucker
Inspirational
Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave
Ryan Holiday
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
For Therapists
Sometimes Therapy Is Awkward
Nicole Arzt
Hour of the Heart: Connecting in the Here and Now
Irvin D. Yalom
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb
Jesus, the Greatest Therapist Who Ever Lived: A Practical Guide to Healing Body, Soul, and Mind Through Biblical Principles and Modern Psychology
Mark W. Baker
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
Irvin D. Yalom
What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
Joe Navarro
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Irvin D. Yalom
Reflection Worksheet
A printable companion for any book, video, or resource — gentle prompts to help you pause, notice, and integrate what you're learning.
Support & Community
Outside groups and communities we trust. These are for education and peer support — not a substitute for treatment.
If you'd like to explore evidence-based interventions (such as ERP for OCD, or trauma-focused therapy) with a clinician, reach out and we'll help you find the right fit.
Need crisis support or local resources?
Find crisis lines and trusted NEPA community organizations on our Resources page.