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Resources

None of these resources are directly affiliated with Tricia Ebel Counseling LLC and should only be utilized with the user's discretion. These options should be considered thoughtfully, and might become triggering to engage at any time.

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Books: Nonfiction Psychology/Trauma Healing

  • Healing the Wounded Heart (CW*)

    • If you read this book, broaden his language to include your own particular ways of having endured harm in your childhood. While he focuses on sexual harm, any experiences of distress, neglect and pain will benefit fro his language. ​

  • Silently Seduced

  • The Drama of the Gifted Child

  • Understanding the Borderline Mother

  • The Body Keeps the Score (reads like a Master's level textbook)

  • Bold Love (CW)

  • The People of the Lie 

  • Unwanted (CW)

  • What Happened to You? 

  • My Grandmother's Hands

  • ​Quit Like a Woman (addiction support)

  • Untamed

  • Neuroscience of Psychotherapy (reads like a Master's level textbook)

  • The Artist's Way

  • Codependent No More

  • The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog 

  • Mother Hunger 

  • Man's Search for Meaning 

  • Good Morning, Monster (best suited for therapists)

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Books: Nonfiction Parenting

  • The Whole Brain Child

  • Good Inside

  • Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids

  • Hunt, Gather, Parent

  • Simplicity Parenting

  • The Anxious Generation 

  • Books by James McKenna on safe cosleeping

  • Children's book on attachment: You Are Never Alone, You Go Away, The Invisible String

  • Parenting Instagram Accounts: Nurtured First, Hey Sleepy Baby

  • Pregnancy: Real Food for Pregnancy

  • Pregnancy: The First Forty Days

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Books: Nonfiction Memoirs

  • Educated

  • Finding Me

  • You Could Make This Place Beautiful

  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • Hillbilly Elegy

  • Tell Me Who You Are

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Books: Fiction

  • Hello, Beautiful

  • Harry Potter Series 

  • Little Women 

  • Remarkably Bright Creatures

  • The Robert Galbraith Series (mystery, some books are slightly scary)

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Films

  • The Butterfly Circus (about 20 minutes, found on vimeo)​

  • Brené Brown, The Call to Courage (Netflix)

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Podcasts

  • The Allender Center Podcast (CW)

  • The Place We Find Ourselves (CW)

  • The Allender Center Podcast: Food and Body, Part 1, 2 and 3 (April 2020)

  • The Allender Center Podcast: Family of Origin: Attachment and Epigenetics, Patterns and Particularities, & Triangulation (February 2019)

  • The Allender Center Podcast: Dealing with Difficult People

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Types of Therapy to Ask for if You're Looking for Someone Similar to Tricia

  • Psychodynamic (more common among seasoned clinicians)

  • Attachment based/attachment focused therapy 

  • Therapists who do parts work (IFS, narrative trauma care, Allender trained)

  • Emotion Focused Therapy

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Healing Things That Are Not Therapy

  • Yoga (sexual abuse survivors, be aware that yoga is often triggering at onset)

  • Therapeutic massage

  • Time spent in nature (walks, hikes)

  • Limit substances (alcohol, nicotine, marijuana, sugar, caffeine, etc.)

  • Get a pet 

  • Read The Artist's Way with friends and/or as author recommends 

  • My workbook

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Therapy-ish Options

  • Allender Center Trainings (CW)

  • The Gottman Center (marriage-focused)

  • Life in Ritual (find her on Instagram or by her website, she curates monthly healing rituals to pursue)

  • Jay Stringer (sexual healing, regular online workshops) (CW)

  • Adam Young (family of origin healing, regular online workshops) (CW)

  • Marriage Institute with the Calls

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CW: Christian Worldview

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