Recommended Resources

These resources are shared for educational and supportive purposes and are not a substitute for therapy or individualized mental health care.

Emotional Healing

  • 📚🎧 Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

    LINDSAY C. GIBSON, PsyD

    Can help you to recognize the impact of emotionally unavailable parenting and develop healthier emotional awareness, boundaries, and self-understanding.

  • 📚 🎧 The Body Keeps the Score

    BESSEL VAN DER KOLK

    Explores how trauma affects both the mind and body, while highlighting pathways toward healing and recovery.

  • 🎥The Wisdom of Trauma

    GABOR MATÉ

    A documentary looking at trauma through a compassionate and relational lens, emphasizing understanding, healing, and human connection.

  • 📚🎧 Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode - and into a Life of Connection and Joy

    AUNDI KOLBER, MA, LCP

    A compassionate, trauma-informed guide to moving out of anxiety, overwhelm, and survival mode through self-compassion, nervous system awareness, and emotional healing.

Personal Growth

  • 📚🎧 Attached: How the science of adult attachment can help you find - and keep - love

    DR. AMIR LEVINE and RACHEL S. F. HELLER, M.A.

    An introduction to attachment styles and how they influence emotional connection, communication, and relationship patterns. This book can help you understand both yourself and your partner better.

  • 📚🎧 Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No, Take Control of Your Life

    DR. HENRY CLOUD & DR. JOHN TOWNSEND

    A resource on developing healthy emotional, relational, and personal boundaries. Helpful for individuals who struggle with people-pleasing, guilt, or burnout.

  • 📚🎧Family Ties that Bind: A self-help guide to change through Family of Origin therapy

    DR. RONALD W. RICHARDON

    Explores how family dynamics and intergenerational patterns influence relationships, stress, and emotional wellbeing.

  • 📚🎧 Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

    SUSAN CAIN

    An exploration of introversion and the strengths of quieter personalities in relationships, work, and everyday life.

  • 📚🎧 The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About

    MEL ROBBINS

    Encourages us to release control over others’ choices and focus instead on emotional peace, self-worth, and healthy boundaries.

Relationships

  • 📚🎧 Fight Right

    JULIE SCHWARTZ GOTTMAN, PhD and JOHN GOTTMAN, PhD

    A practical guide to navigating conflict in healthier ways. Grounded in decades of relationship research, this book offers tools for communication, repair, and deeper connection.

  • 📱Gottman Card Decks

    A free relationship app featuring conversation starters, connection exercises, rituals of appreciation, and communication tools for couples.

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  • 📚🎧 The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

    GARY CHAPMAN

    Explores the different ways people experience and express love. Many couples find this resource useful for improving understanding, affection, and emotional connection.

    Take the quiz to find your love language.

  • 🎙️The Naked Marriage

    DAVE and ASHLEY WILLIS

    A faith-based relationship-focused podcast covering communication, intimacy, conflict, and connection in marriage and long-term partnerships.

  • 📚🎧 Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

    DR. SUE JOHNSON

    A guide to strengthening emotional bonds in romantic relationships based on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). It helps couples understand attachment needs and improve connection, communication, and trust.

Sexual Intimacy

  • 📚🎧 Better Sex Through Mindfulness: How Women Can Cultivate Desire

    LORI A. BROTTO, PhD

    This book introduces mindfulness-based approaches to improving intimacy, reducing anxiety, and fostering greater connection to the body and emotions.

    🔊Mindfulness Recordings

  • 📚🎧Come as You Are

    EMILY NAGOSKI, PhD

    An easy-to-read or listen to book on sexuality, desire, and emotional wellbeing that combines research with practical insight and compassion.

  • 📚🎧 The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex: Creating a Marriage that's both Holy and Hot

    SHEILA WRAY GREGOIRE

    A faith-informed exploration of intimacy, sexuality, and emotional connection within marriage.

  • 📚 Becoming Orgasmic: A Sexual and Personal Growth Program for Women

    JULIE HEIMAN, PhD and JOSEPH LOPICCOLO, PhD

    A research-based guide designed to help women develop greater comfort, confidence, and connection with their sexuality through self-awareness, communication, and practical exercises for intimacy and pleasure.

Crisis & Emergency Resources

If you are in immediate danger or experiencing a life-threatening emergency, call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room.

988 Suicide Crisis Helpline

Call or text 988 anytime for free, confidential support if you are experiencing suicidal thoughts, emotional distress, or a mental health crisis. Available 24/7 across Canada.

Here 24/7 (Waterloo Region)

A local mental health and crisis support line for Waterloo Region, Wellington County, and surrounding areas. Available 24/7 for mental health, addiction, and crisis concerns.

Call: 1-844-437-3247 (1-844-HERE247)

This practice is not a crisis service and email or contact forms are not monitored 24/7. If you require immediate support, please contact one of the crisis resources above or call 911.