book recommendations

Below are recommendations for reading around mental health difficulties and areas that may be of interest to you.

If you have found a book helpful and you’d like me to share it with others, please let me know.

self help books mental wellbeing

easy reading

  • The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy - A beautifully illustrated book full of self acceptance and compassion

  • Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure by Robert de Board - Wind in the Willows Toad of Toad Hall is depressed and his friends try to help him

  • Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin Yalom - extraordinary insight of renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom into the lives of 10 of his patients

  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

reading for emotional and sexual abuse

  • Narcissistic Partner Abuse: Change Yourself to Stop Being a Victim (Narcissistic Abuse Recovery) by Caroline Foster

  • Narcissistic Mothers and Covert Emotional Abuse: For Adult Children of Narcissistic Parents by Diana Macey

  • It's Not You: How to Identify and Heal from NARCISSISTIC people by Ramani Durvasula

  • Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What we can do about it by Kate Harding

  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

reading around body image

  • The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

guided help and support

  • The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook by Jeffrey Brantley, Jeffrey C. Wood, and Matthew McKay - Practical DBT Exercises for learning mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation and distress tolerance

Online therapy available to clients in Farnham and nationwide

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

by Charlie Mackesy

reading for anxiety

  • The Courage to be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi

  • Cards Against Anxiety: A Guidebook and Cards to Help You Stress Less by Dr. Pooky Knightsmith

reading for depression

  • Depressive Illness: The Curse Of The Strong by Tim Cantopher - An informative and accessible book

other useful reading

  • The Dance of Anger by Dr. Harriet Lerner explores the complexities of anger, particularly in women, and offers guidance on how to express it constructively in relationships

I have no affiliation with any of these authors and the recommendations are based on what I and others have found helpful or informative