Read, Listen, Seek
These are some of my favorite books and podcasts for clients who would like to learn more or bring more psychological flexibility into their lives.
Books
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
Radical Acceptance empowers genuine change: healing fear and shame and helping to build loving, authentic relationships. When we stop being at war with ourselves, we are free to live fully every precious moment of our lives.
Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship
With deft insight, humor, and charm, Real guides you to transform your relationship into one that’s based on compassion, collaboration, and closeness.
Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast
With deft insight, humor, and charm, Real guides you to transform your relationship into one that’s based on compassion, collaboration, and closeness.
Podcasts
Where Should We Begin
Listen to the incomparable therapist Esther Perel counsel real couples as they reveal the most intimate, personal, and complicated details of the conflicts that have brought them to her door.
The Man Enough Podcast
Explore what it means to be a man today and how rigid gender roles have affected all people. The show creates a safe environment for a range of perspectives to meet and stay at the table.
Tara Brach
This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into a portal for awakening your understanding, flexibility and compassion.
Low-fee Clinics
If you need support from a low-fee therapy clinic, these are a few of the many around the Bay Area that offer income-based, sliding-scale fee structures.
You can find a more comprehensive list here.