Important Books to Read for Mental Health Counselor’s and Marriage & Family Therapists

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The following list of books was shared with me by a mentor, Tyler Fitzgerald, LMFT.  I hope this list proves as useful to others.

DSM-5-TR


On Becoming A Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy


Drama of the Gifted Child – Alice Miller


Co-Dependent No More – Melanie Beatty


Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous 4th Edition 


Nursing Book of Medications 2025-2026


Theories of Personality


Treatment Planning for Psychotherapy


Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy – Irvin D. Yalom


On Death and Dying – Elizabeth Kubler Ross


Beginning to Heal: A First Book for Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused As Children – Ellen Bass


Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent’s Guide to the New Teenager, Revised and Updated – Anthony E. Wolf


I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline PersonalityJerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus  https://amzn.to/2CGhr4q


Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder – Paul T. Mason & Randi Kreger


Straight Parents, Gay Children: Keeping Families Together – Robert A. Bernstein, Robert MacNeil, and Betty DeGeneres


Making Peace with Your Parents – Howard Bloomfield


How to Survive the Loss of a Love – Melba Colgrove


The Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment


Adult Children of Alcoholics by Gravitz & Bowden