Discover which mental health books topped the list this year!

If you’re like most people, you probably have a lot of questions about mental health. But where do you turn for answers? One great resource is books. Here are some of our favorite mental health books for you to check out and use in your therapy practice.

Mental Health Books on Anxiety:

• Don’t Feed the Monkey Mind: How to Stop the Cycle of Anxiety, Fear, and Worry
• The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
• Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry
• The Monkey Mind Workout for Perfectionism: Break Free from Anxiety and Build Self-Compassion in 30 Days!

Mental Health Books Toxic and Other Difficult Relationships:

• Out of the FOG, into the CLEAR; Journaling to Help You Heal from Toxic Relationships
• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
• Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect

Mental Health Books Dating/Partnerships/Marriage:

• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert
• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find–and Keep– Love
• Wired for Dating: How Understanding Neurobiology and Attachment Style Can Help You Find Your Ideal Mate

Mental Health Books Motherhood & Maternal Mental Health:

• Mommy Burnout: How to Reclaim Your Life and Raise Healthier Children in the Process
• How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids
• To Have and to Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma
• From One Mom to a Mother: Poetry & Momisms (Jessica Urlichs: Early Motherhood Poetry & Prose Collection Book 1)
• All I See Is You: Poems and Proses on Motherhood (Jessica Urlichs: Early Motherhood Poetry & Prose Collection Book 2)
• My After All: Poetry & Prose for Mothers (Jessica Urlichs: Early Motherhood Poetry & Prose Collection Book 3)
• The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom’s Guide to Style, Sanity, and Success After Baby

Mental Health Books Parenting:

• Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids
• The Montessori Baby: A Parent’s Guide to Nurturing Your Baby with Love, Respect, and Understanding 
• What’s Going on in There?: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life

Mental Health Books on Boundary Setting:

• Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
• Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy

Mental Health Books on Trauma Response:

• What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
• Transforming The Living Legacy of Trauma: A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
• A Therapist’s Guide to EMDR: Tools and Techniques for Successful Treatment 

Mental Health Books on Self Compassion:

• Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself 
• The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A Proven Way to Accept Yourself, Build Inner Strength, and Thrive
• Embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body (and quiet that critical voice!)

Mental Health Books on Motivation:

• The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months
• The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life – Before 8AM
• The Dip

Mental Health Books on Highly Sensitive People

• The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When The World Overwhelms Them
• The Highly Sensitive Parent: Be Brilliant in Your Role, Even When the World Overwhelms You
• The Highly Sensitive Person’s Workbook
• The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You
• The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

Mental Health Books on Mindfulness:

• A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

Mental Health Books on Grief:

• The Grief Recovery Handbook, 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses including Health, Career, and Faith 

Mental Health Books about Understanding Emotions:

• Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
• The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connection, and Courage  

Mental Health Books on Anger:

• The Anger Control Workbook (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

Mental Health Books about Self Care:

• Tapping In: A Step-by-Step Guide to Activating Your Healing Resources Through Bilateral Stimulation
• Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success
• Simple Self-Care for Therapists: Restorative Practices to Weave Through Your Workday
• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
• Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships with Your Partner, Your Parents & Your Children
• Tapping In: A Step-by-Step Guide to Activating Your Healing Resources Through Bilateral Stimulation
• Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World

Mental Health Books on Building a Strong Money Mindset:

• The Laws of money, The Lessons of Life by Suze Orman
• Love your Life not Theirs by Rachel Cruze
• Million Dollar Habits by Brian Tracy
• The Money Answer Book by Dave Ramsey
• The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey

Progress Note Planners

• The Child Psychotherapy Progress Notes Planner
• The Adolescent Psychotherapy Progress Notes Planner
• The Adult Psychotherapy Progress Notes Planner
• The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Progress Notes Planner

Treatment Planning Planners

• The Family Therapy Treatment Planner
• The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner
• The Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Planner
• The Addiction Treatment Planner
• The Child Psychotherapy Treatment Planner
• The Couples Psychotherapy Treatment Planner
• The Parenting Skills Treatment Planner
• The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Treatment Planner
• The Crisis Counseling and Traumatic Events Treatment Planner
• The Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment Planner
• The Family Therapy Treatment Planner
• The Group Therapy Treatment Planner
• The Social Work and Human Services Treatment Planner
• The Suicide and Homicide Risk Assessment and Prevention Treatment Planner
• The Veterans and Active Duty Military Psychotherapy Treatment Planner
• The Juvenile Justice and Residential Care Treatment Planner