Recommended Resources
Couples/Relationship
Hold Me Tight
The Hold Me Tight book written by Dr. Sue Johnson is a groundbreaking program that helps couples explore the reasons for negative interactions and helps them move from disconnection to connection.
Hold Me Tight Workshops
The Hold Me Tight online program helps couples learn about the reasons they get stuck in conflict and helps them have new conversations to create deeper intimacy and bonding.
Hold Me Tight live 2 day workshops are offered all over the world and provide couples with a chance to spend focused, dedicated time to their relationship. Upcoming workshops can be found here.
Created for Connection
Dr. Sue Johnson and Kenneth Sanderfer share the Hold Me Tight program for Christian couples that focuses on creating a stronger and more secure relationship as a couple and with God.
Secure Love
Secure Love is a crash course in understanding how you show up in a relationship and guides you on getting out of negative cycles to find safety in one another.
US
At a time when toxic individualism is rending our society at every level, bestselling author and renowned marriage counselor Terrence Real sees how it poisons intimate relationships in his therapy practice, where he works with couples on the brink of disaster.
Fierce Intimacy
Terry Real’s approach to relationship is called “full-respect living”―to skillfully and honestly assert your needs while also honoring your partner’s needs. In these six sessions, he presents invaluable training for individuals and couples on developing the skills necessary for this authentic way of connecting.
Sexual Intimacy
Foreplay Radio Podcast
A couples and sex therapy podcast with experts having the real conversations about love and sex . . . that you’ve always wanted to have.
Come As You Are
Emily Nagoski’s Come As You Are, which used groundbreaking science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them.
Trauma
The Body Keeps the Score
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk is a leading researcher and educator on the impact of trauma on the mind and body.
Learn about EMDR tools
The creator of EMDR therapy, Francine Shapiro, PhD shares tools from the EMDR process that help manage feelings of overwhelm.
The Deepest Well
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris helps you understand the impact that adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress have on health later in life.
Parenting/Attachment
Attachment in the early years
An excellent resource on understanding how attachment is formed in the early years of life and ways insecure attachment can be resolved later in life.
Parenting and Attachment
Learn how to navigate parent triggers and responses during the parenting years to maintain a strong, safe bond.
Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
The teen years can be challenging for both parents and teens. This workshop for teens and their parents helps families understand relationship and attachment needs during this unique phase.