Books | Online Resources | Recommended Psychotherapists | Postpartum Care | Adult Support
Books
Adolescent Girls
Queen Bees and Wannabees By Rosalind Wiseman |
What you must think of me A firsthand account of one teenager’s experience with social anxiety By Emily Ford |
What to do when you Worry Too Much A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Anxiety By Dawn Huebner |
What to do when your Brain Gets Stuck A kid’s guide to Overcoming OCD By Dawn Huebner |
A Gift of ADHD How to Transform Your Child’s Problems into Strengths By Lara Honos-Webb |
Divorce
At Daddy’s on Saturday By Linda Walvoord Girard, 1987. |
Dinosaurs Divorce By Marc Brown and Laurie Krasny Brown, 1988. |
I Don’t Want to Talk About It By Jeanie Franz Ransom, 2000. |
Mama and Daddy Bear’s Divorce By Cornelia Maude Spelman, 1998. |
Was it the Chocolate Pudding? By Sandra Levins and Bryan Langdo, 2006. |
We’re Having a Tuesday By D.K. Simoneau, 2006. |
Recommended books for older children on separation and divorce:
What in the World Do You Do When Your Parents Divorce? A Survival Guide for Kids By Kent Winchester and Roberta Beyer, 2001. |
Mom’s House, Dad’s House for Kids: Feeling at Home in One Home or Two By Isolina Ricci, 2006. |
A Smart Girl’s Guide to Her Parents Divorce By Nancy Holyoke, 2009. |
Parenting
The Happiest Toddler on the Block How to Eliminate Tantrums and Raise a Patient, Respectful, and Cooperative One- to Four-Year-Old By Harvey Karp, MD |
The Mask of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Our Lives and Why We Never Talk About It By Susan Maushart |
Mom Book: 4278 of Mom Central’s Tips–For Moms from Moms By Stacy DeBroff |
Good Enough Is the New Perfect: Finding Happiness and Success in Modern Motherhood By Becky Beaupre Gillespie & Hollee Schwartz |
The Out-of-Sync Child Recognizing/Coping with Sensory Integration Dysfunction By Carol Stock Kranowitz, MD |
Parenting from the Inside Out How a deeper self-understanding can help you raise children who thrive. By Dan Siegel, MD |
The Art of Family By Gina Bria |
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk By Elaine Mazlish & Adele Faber |
Raise Your Child’s Social IQ: Stepping Stones to People Skills for Kids By Cathi Cohen, LCSW |
New Parents
Mojo Mom By Amy Tiemann |
The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal By Renee Trudeau |
Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child A step by step program for a good night’s sleep By March Weissbluth MD |
The Ghost in the House: Motherhood, Raising Children, and Struggling with Depression By Tracy Thompson |
This Isn’t What I Expected: Overcoming Postpartum Depression By Karen Kleiman & Valerie Raskin |
Trauma Survivors
I Can’t Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors By Aphrodite T. Matsakis, PhD |
The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment By Babette Rothschild |
8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery: Take-Charge Strategies to Empower Your Healing (8 Keys to Mental Health) By Babette Rothschild |
Trust After Trauma: A Guide to Relationships for Survivors and Those Who Love Them By Aphrodite T. Matsakis, PhD |
Ghosts in the Bedroom: A Guide for the Partners of Incest Survivors By Ken Graber |
Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and About Adults Abused As Children By Eliana Gil |
The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse By Laura Davis |
Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child By Laura Davis |
Loving Someone with PTSD: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Connecting with Your Partner After Trauma By Aphrodite T. Matsakis |
Women
Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers By Karl McBride |
The Gifts of Imperfection Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are By Brene Brown |
The Places That Scare You A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times By Pema Chodron |
How Can I Forgive You? The Courage to Forgive, The Freedom Not To By Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD |
The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7 Step Program to Save Your Marriage By Michelle Wiener Davis |
The Dance of Anger By Harriet Lerner, PhD |
Hold Me Tight Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships By Sue Johnson |
Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work By John Gottman |
The Dance of Intimacy By Harriet Lerner, PhD |
Extraordinary Relationships: A New Way of Thinking About Human Interactions By Roberta M. Gilbert, MD |
I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t) Making the Journey from “What Will People Think?” to “I Am Enough” By Brene Brown |
And Baby Makes Three The Six-Step Plan for Preserving Marital Intimacy and Rekindling Romance After Baby Arrives By John M. Gottman & Julie Schwartz Gottman |
Online Reources
Family Resources
- Sun and Moon Yoga (Fairfax)
- Zero to Three Parenting- Online Resource
Parenting Support - Postpartum Support Virginia
- CHADD
Leading non-profit serving individuals with ADD/ADHD - In-Step
Social skills Groups for Children and Adolescents - Our Kids
Online Family Activity Newsletter - LD Online
Leading website on learning disabilities and AD/HD - Janice Armstrong
Special Education Teacher and Advocate
(703) 978 0429
*Specializing in dyslexia and ADHD / Tutoring children from age 5 to 3rd grade / Advocating for children K through High School/Educational Evaluations
Recommended Psychotherapists
Northwest DC
- Jennifer Kogan, LCSW-C
Parenting Support/Counseling and Couples
www.jenniferkogan.com - Antoinette Corvasce
Grief/Loss Issues and Couples:
www.antoniettacorvasce.com - Kate Kelly
Groups and Adolescent Girls: ”Girls In Tune”
girlsintune@gmail.com
(202) 230-9307
Northern Virginia
- Lisa Snipper, LCSW
Children, Adults, and Couples
www.atherapistforyou.com - Mary Heston Cooper, LCSW
10560 Main Street, PH#4, Fairfax, VA 22030
and
2000 N.15th Street, G2-100, Arlington, VA 22201
571-205-4002
mcooperlcsw@gmail.com
www.mcooperlcsw.com - Barbara Caceres, LCSW
Children, Adolescents, Adults and Couples
(703) 242-8223 - Dr. Holly Erwin
Children, Adolescents, and Adults
(703) 626-3693
Postpartum Care
- letmommysleep.com/our-services
- www.birthoptionsalliance.org
- CLIMB – the Center for Loss In Multiple Birth
- DC Pregnancy and Infant Loss Network (DC PAIL Net) Facebook page
Trauma Support
- Emerging Solutions For Domestic Violence
www.sunshinebehavioralhealth.com/resources/domestic-violence/
Adult Support
- Mary Lynn Duvall
Dietician
(703) 893-1615 - Breast Feeding/New Mom’s Groups
INOVA Fairfax Hospital Women’s Center
(703) 776 -6455 - Postpartum Groups for Women
www.lifeenrichmentcounseling.com - Postpartum Groups for Women