Client Resources

Trauma Tool Box

• Trauma Healing – Steps You Can Take Right Now
• Victims Assistance Benefits Application
• The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
• Nesting Dolls for IFS work 
• Breathing Ball for Panic Attacks 
• 5 senses for Panic Attacks and Anxiety 
• Grounding Exercise 
• DBT Skills Booklet
• Voo Breath Work 
• Boundary Exercises 
• Attachment Quiz
• EMDR Calm Place Exercise

Somatic Therapy and Attachment

• Attachment Theory: Dr. Diane Poole Heller, Somatic Attachment and Trauma Expert
• Somatic Attachment Therapy Explained
• Emotional Focused Therapy

Chronic Pain

• Rise BC
• Pain BC
• Live Plan Be
• Dr. Michael Sullivan – Centre for Research on Pain, Disability and Social Integration
• Self Management BC

Mindfulness & Meditation

• Tara Brach Meditation & Mindfulness
• Mindfulness Exercises
• DBT skill & mindfulness

Substance Use

• Sinclaire Method
• Claudia Christian on The Sinclaire Method – TEDx YouTube Video
• Dr. Gabor Maté
• SMART Recovery – Self Management for Addiction Recovery
• Addiction – YouTube Video
• CBC – Jungle Prescription

Eating Disorders

• NEDIC
• Eating Disorder Screening 
• ED Resources page

Life Changing Books & Articles

• Atlas of the Heart, Brene Brown
• The Whole Brain Child, Dan Siegel 
• The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk
• Waking the Tiger, Peter Levine
• Women Taking, Miriam Toews
• Kaleidoscopic Justice: Sexual Violence and Victim-Survivors’ Perception of Justice

Dance, just for fun! 

Cited Resources

Absolon, K. (2020). Indigenous Wholistic Theory: A Knowledge Set for Practice. First Peoples Child & Family Review, 5(2), 74–87. https://doi.org/10.7202/1068933ar

Ali, T. (2019, September 12). ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences): One Family Physician’s Experience. This Changed My Practice. http://thischangedmypractice.com/aces-adverse-childhood-experiences/

Bell, W. C. B. (2015, March 10). Hope, trauma and resilience: a conversation about vulnerable children in America [Keynote address at the 2015 Kevin J. Robinson Forum on Social Justice]. Resilience in the Face of Childhood Trauma, Philadelphia, United States of America.

Briere, J. N., & Scott, C. (2014). Principles of Trauma Therapy: A Guide to Symptoms, Evaluation, and Treatment ( DSM-5 Update) (Second ed.). SAGE Publications, Inc.

Carl Rogers (1-Mar-2004) Paperback. (2021). On Becoming a Person Constable; New Ed edition (1 Mar. 2004).

EMDR International Association. (2023, February 10). About EMDR Therapy – EMDR International Association. https://www.emdria.org/about-emdr-therapy/

Heller, D. P. (2021, March 3). The Relationship Between Attachment and Trauma. Trauma Solutions. https://dianepooleheller.com/the-relationship-between-attachment-and-trauma/

University of Arkansas. (2014, August). The Quality of Presence: An Essential Component of Therapeutic Work (No. 2209). Melissa R. Haley. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/127621455.pdf

Heller, D. P. H. (2013). Navigating the Labyrinth of Love – How Attachment Styles Sneak into Adult Relationships. Https://Dianepooleheller.Com/Wp-Content/Uploads/2018/12/Navigating-the-Labyrinth-of-Love.Pdf. https://dianepooleheller.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Navigating-the-Labyrinth-of-Love.pdf

Mandell, D. (2008). POWER, CARE AND VULNERABILITY: CONSIDERING USE OF SELF IN CHILD WELFARE WORK. Journal of Social Work Practice, 22(2), 235–248. https://doi.org/10.1080/02650530802099916

Maxfield, L. (2019). A clinician’s guide to the efficacy of EMDR therapy. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research [Editorial], 13(4), 239-246. Open access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1933-3196.13.4.239

Schore, A. S. (2001). Effects of a Secure Attachment Relationship on Right Brain Development, Affect Regulation, and Infant Mental Health. Effects of a Secure Attachment Relationship on Right Brain Development, Affect Regulation, and Infant Mental Health, 22(1–2), 7–66. http://www.allanschore.com/pdf/SchoreIMHJAttachment.pdf

Schwartz, R. C., & Sweezy, M. (2019). Internal Family Systems Therapy, Second Edition. Guilford Publications.

Shapiro, F., & Forrest, M. S. (2016). EMDR: The breakthrough therapy for overcoming anxiety, stress, and trauma. Hachette UK

Siegel, D. J. (2020). The Developing Mind, Third Edition: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Third ed.). The Guilford Press.

Van der Kolk, B.A., Spinazzola, J., Blaustein, M.E., Hopper, J.W., Hopper, E.K., Korn, D. L., & Simpson, W.B. (2007). A randomized clinical trial of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), fluoxetine, and pill placebo in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder: treatment effects and long-term maintenance. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 68(1), 37-46

Van der Kolk, V. B. (2015). The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Illustrated ed.). Penguin Books.