Katie Richardson
Psychotherapy

Recommended Reads
(Last Updated: May 28, 2024)
ADHD
- Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100 Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You! by Sasha Hamdani
- Taking Charge of Adult ADHD (2nd Ed) by Russell A. Barkley
- Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed For You by Jenara Nerenberg
Executive Functioning Support
- For breaking down tasks: Magic ToDo
- For motivation: BeeMinder
Attachment
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
- The Emotionally Absent Mother: How to Recognize and Heal the Invisible Effects of Childhood Emotional Neglect by Jasmin Lee Cori
- Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, and our Society Thrive by Marc Brackett
- Set Boundaries Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab
Autism
- Self-Care for Autistic People by Dr. Megan Anna Neff
- Unmasking Autism by Devon Price
- Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed For You by Jenara Nerenberg
Burnout
- Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100 Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You! by Sasha Hamdani
- Self-Care for Autistic People by Dr. Megan Anna Neff
- Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
- Set Boundaries Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab
Depression/Existentialism
- The Illustrated Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living by Russ Harris
- No Self No Problem: How Neuropsychology is Catching Up to Buddhism by Chris Niebauer
- Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- To Have or To Be? The Nature of the Psyche by Erich Fromm
Social Neurosis (Social Commentary)
- Mad World by Micha Frazer-Caroll
- Unlearning Shame by Devon Price
- The Sane Society by Erich Fromm
- Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
Parenting
- Parenting From The Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive by Daniel J. Siegel and Mary Hartzell
- The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired 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 by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
- The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
- The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
- The Explosive Child: A new Approach For Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Ross W. Greene
Trauma
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
- Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Lewis Herman