Shannon Gilbride, MFT | Marriage and Family Therapist | Encinitas North County, San Diego Counseling Shannon Gilbride, MFT | Marriage and Family Therapist | Encinitas North County, San Diego Counseling
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Books

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Relationships:

  • Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship by Stan Tatkin PsyD MFT and Harville Hendrix PhD
  • Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Sue Johnson
  • The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work by Terrence Real
  • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman

Parenting:

  • The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
  • No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
  • Teaching Kids to Think: Raising Confident, Independent, and Thoughtful Children in an Age of Instant Gratification by Darlene Sweetland, ‎ Ron Stolberg
  • Emotional Muscle: Strong Parents, Strong Children by Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick PHD
  • No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shameby Janet Lansbury
  • Free to Run the Race: Undoing the Burdens of Parental Disregard by Gary Ventimiglia and Brad D. Strawn
  • Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman, Joan Declaire, & Daniel Goleman
  • Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girlsby Mary Pipher
  • Real Boys: Rescuing our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood by William Pollack
  • Becoming a Stepfamily by Patricia Papernow 

Managing Stress

  • Adrenaline and Stress by Dr. Archibald Hart

Emotion Regulation/ Mindfulness:

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, & Distress Tolerance by Matthew Mc Kay, Jeffrey C. Wood, and Jeffrey Brantley
  • Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh and Arnold Kotler
  • NO MUD, NO LOTUS: The Art of Transforming Suffering by Thich Nhat Hanh

Positive Psychology:

  • The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubi
  • Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment by Tal Ben-Shahar

 Personal Growth:

  • Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown
  • Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown
  • The Road Less Traveled by Scott Peck
  • Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  • Shyness: What it is and What to do About it by Philip G. Zimbardo
  • How People Change by Allen Wheelis
  • Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
  • As a Man Thinketh by James L. Allen
  • Telling Secrets by Frederick Buechner
  • Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow by Judith Viorst
  • Safe People by Henry Cloud and John Townsend

Depression

  • Undoing Depression by Richard O’Connor

 

Eating Disorders:

  • Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too by Jenni Schaefer
  • Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling by Anita A. Johnston PhD.
  • Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything by Geneen Roth

 Grief:

  • Lament for a Son by Nicholas Wolterstorff
  • The Grief Recovery Handbook by John James and Russell Friedman
  • A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
  • Understanding Mourning: A Guide for Those who Grieve by Glen W. Davidson
  • Changing Course: Healing from Loss, Abandonment and Fear by Claudia Black

Trauma:

  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D

Physical and Emotional Abuse:

  • The Betrayal Bond by Patrick J. Carnes, Ph.D.
  • Healing the Scars of Emotional Abuse by Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D. and Ann McMurray

 Sexual Abuse:

  •  (For men) Victims No Longer by Mike Lew
  • (For women) The Courage to Heal by Laura Davis
  • Stumbling Towards Faith: My Longing to Heal From the Evil that God Allowed by Renee Altson

Prayer & Spirituality:

  • Let Yourself Be Loved: Transforming Fear Into Hope by Phillip Bennett
  • Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster
  • Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
  • Practicing the Presence of People by Mike Mason
  • The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris by William Pollack
  • The Dark Night of the Soul by Gerald May 
  • Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
  • The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen
  • Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
  • The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning
  • Responding to God by Martha Rowlett
  • Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocationby Parker Palmer
  • Letters to Malcolm by C.S. Lewis

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170 Calle Magdalena Encinitas, CA 92024 

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