Resources|Kim Pennybrook

Resources

CPTSD

• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsey Gibson

• Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy by Lindsey Gibson

• Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

Downloadable reflection questions for this book

TGNB

• Gender Born, Gender Made: Raising Healthy Gender Nonconforming Children by Diane Ehrensaft

• Trans Like Me: Conversations for All of Us by c n lester

•What’s the T?: The Guide to all things Trans and/or Nonbinary by Juno Dawson

MENTAL HEALTH

Therapy in a Nutshell

EMDR

Intensive application of trauma-focused therapy seems to be well tolerated in patients with PTSD, enabling faster symptom reduction with similar, or even better, results, while reducing the risk that patients drop out prematurely. Learn more here and here.
Intensive EMDR treatment is feasible and is indicative of reliable improvement in PTSD symptoms in a very short time frame. Learn more here.
An intensive program using EMDR therapy is a potentially safe and effective treatment alternative for complex PTSD. Learn more here.
The economy is compelling: even compared to other trauma therapy, the intensive format may decrease treatment time, because of time not spent on a) checking in at the beginning of each session, b) addressing current crises and concerns, c) focusing on stabilizing and coping skills that the client won’t need after trauma healing, or d) assisting the client in regaining composure at the end of the session. Learn more here.