Recommended Reading for Anxiety
A small collection of books we often recommend to clients.
These books can help you better understand anxiety, why certain patterns keep showing up, and how real change happens.
Some are more practical. Others go deeper into how the mind and brain work. You do not need to read all of them. Start with what stands out to you.
Books we often recommend to clients
by Richard Schwartz
No Bad Parts
A clear introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) and the idea that different “parts” of you are trying to help, even when they create anxiety.
Radical Acceptance
by Tara Brach
Explores how self-judgment and resistance create suffering, and how acceptance and compassion can shift your relationship with anxiety.
DARE
by Barry McDonagh
A practical approach to working with anxiety and panic by changing how you respond to it in the moment.
Getting Past Your Past
by Francine Shapiro
Explains how past experiences continue to affect present reactions and how EMDR can help process and resolve them.
Mindfulness Workbook for OCD
by Jon Hershfield & Tom Corboy
A structured, practical guide for understanding and working with OCD using mindfulness-based tools.
You are the One You've Been Waiting For
by Richard Schwartz
A guide to understanding relationships and emotional patterns through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS).
The Brain Science Behind Lasting Change
These books explore memory reconsolidation, the brain process believed to underlie lasting emotional change. This is the foundation for how approaches like IFS and EMDR can help update old emotional patterns so anxiety no longer shows up in the same way.
by Alur Parry
How to Remove Trauma Response
A practical guide to memory reconsolidation and how emotional patterns can be updated so old trauma and anxiety responses no longer feel automatic.
Unlocking the Emotional Brain
by Bruce Ecker
A deeper look at Memory Reconsolidation and how lasting emotional change happens at the level of the brain.
