Resources

Other SUPPORT & information

EMDRIA (EMDR International Association)

For more information about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy, visit their website at https://emdria.org/about-emdr-therapy/

NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)

Visit website at https://nami.org  for more mental illness information, support, education, and advocacy. NAMI Austin Office: 512-420-9810; NAMI Texas Office: 512-693-2000.

SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)

Visit website at https://samhsa.gov for more information on alcohol, drug, or mental health education as well as facility locations and programs.

Crisis support via texting “HOME” to 741-741: 

Connect with trained crisis counselors for help or if needing information. Available 24/7, free and confidential.

Information that May be Useful:

  • Calling 988 is generally easier for folks to access mental health crisis services.  For all other emergency needs, call 911
  • For your local or state police number, call 911 and ask for Crisis Intervention Team or an officer trained in handling mental health cases.
  • Local Mental Health Agency Number:  Austin Travis County Integral Care (ATCIC):  512-447-4141
  • Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES): 512-472-HELP (4357) for Crisis Hotline 24/7
  • Williamson County Mobile Crisis Outreach Team: 512-943-3545
  • Hill Country MHDD (Hays and South Counties): 877-466-0660
  • Scheib MH Center (San Marcos): 512-392-7151

BOOK & VIDEO RESOURCES

Brainspotting:

Brainspotting – David Grand, PhD (2013)

“What is Brainspotting?” – Interview with David Grand (2015); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm3Plvaf3UE  (23:49)

Beyond the Self: Healing emotional trauma and Brainspotting – Mario C. Salvador (2017)

EMDR:

“Introduction to EMDR Therapy” – EMDR International Association; https://youtu.be/Pkfln-ZtWeY   

 

“Anxiety is the Messenger” – Jennifer L. Fee/TEDx Talk (CSULB); www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoDe1Blxb8s (16:46)

 

Getting Past Your Past – Francine Shapiro, PhD (2012)

 

Polyvagal-Informed EMDR: A neural-informed approach to healing – Rebecca Kase (2023)

EMOTIONAL REGULATION:

Mastering Your Emotions with Your Spouse and Others: Seven steps for transforming emotional reactivity – Jim Piekarski (2012)

 

Triggers: How we can stop reacting and start healing – David Richo (2019)

GRIEF & LOSS:

On Grief & Grieving: Finding the meaning of grief through the five stages of loss – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. & David Kessler  (1994, expanded 2014)

 

Recovering from Losses in Life – H. Norman Wright (2006)

 

The Grief Recovery Handbook – John W. James and Russell Friedman (2009)

 

A Matter of Death and Life – Irvin D. Yalom and Marilyn Yalom (2021)

 

Resilient Grieving: How to find your way through devastating loss – Lucy Hone, PhD (2024)

LIFE TRANSITIONS:

Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes – William Bridges, PhD (2004)

 

The Five Things We Cannot Change…and the happiness we find by embracing them – David Richo (2005)

 

Falling Upward: A spirituality for the two halves of life – Richard Rohr (2011)

 

Atomic Habits: An easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones – James Clear (2018)

 

Life is in the Transitions: Mastering change at any age – Bruce Feiler (2020)  

 

Tiny Habits: The small changes that change everything – B.J. Fogg, PhD (2020)

RELATIONSHIPS:

Boundaries – Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend (1995, 2017);  [Other books in  Boundaries series: in marriage, in dating, w/teens, and w/kids.]

 

How to Be an Adult in Relationships – David Richo (2002)

 

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work – John Gottman, PhD and Nan Silver (2015)

 

Fight Right: How successful couples turn conflict into connection – Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD and John Gottman, PhD (2024)

TRAUMA:

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma – Peter Levine (1997)

Healing Trauma: attachment, mind, body, and brain – Edited by Marion F. Solomon and Daniel J. Siegel (2003)

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma  Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD (2014)

Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems Therapy – Frank G. Anderson, MD (Foreword by Richard C. Schwartz, PhD), (2021)