books we read

books we read

FOR ADULTS

Career Change

Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type by Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2011: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard N. Bolles

Discover What You’re Best At by Linda Gale

Depression

Overcoming Depression One Step at a Time by Michael Addis and Christopher Martell

The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression by Patricia J. Robinson and Kirk D. Strosahl

Emotion Dysregulation

Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life by Spradling, S.E.
Loving Someone with BPD by Shari Manning
Stop Walking on Eggshells by Paul T Mason and Randi Kreger
The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Living with BPD by Alex L. Chapman and Kim L. Gratz
The Buddha and the Borderline (memoire) by Kiera Van Gelder
DBT Skills Workbook by Matt McKay
Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder by Blaise Aguirre
Urban Mindfulness: Cultivating Peace, Presence, and Purpose in the Middle of It All by Jonathan S. Kaplan
Escaping the Emotional Roller Coaster by Dr. Zurita Ona

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (worry)

Mastery of Your Anxiety and Worry: Workbook (Treatments That Work) by Michelle G. Craske and David H. Barlow
Overcoming Generalized Anxiety Disorder – Client Manual: A Relaxation, Cognitive Restructuring, and Exposure-Based Protocol for the Treatment of GAD (Best Practices for Therapy) by Matthew McKay Ph.D. and John White
The Worry Cure by Robert Leahy
The Worry Trap by Chad Lejoune
The Worry Trick by David Carbonell
Be Mighty: A Womens Guide to Liberation from Anxiety, Worry and Stress Using Mindfulness and Acceptance

General Life Skills

The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt by Russ Harris
The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT by Russ Harris and Steven Hayes
ACT with Love by Russ Harris
Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) by Steven C. Hayes and Spencer Smith

Health Anxiety/Hypochondria

Overcoming Health Anxiety: Letting Go of Your Fear of Illness by Katherine Owens and Martin Antony
Overcoming Health Anxiety by David Veale

Hoarding

Stuff: Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Gail Steketee.
Hoarding by Michael Tompkins
Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding (Treatments That Work) by David Tolin, Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee

Mindfulness

Urban Mindfulness: Cultivating Peace, Presence, and Purpose in the Middle of It All by Jonathan S. Kaplan

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (ocd) and Related Conditions

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well by Fred Penzel
Freedom from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Personalized Recovery Program for Living with Uncertainty by Jonathan Grayson
Stop Obsessing by Edna Foa
Rewind, Replay, Repeat by Jeff Bell
The Thought that Counts by Jared Kant
OCD: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed by Michael Tompkins
The OCD Workbook: Your Guide to Breaking Free from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Bruce Hyman and Cherlene Pedrick
The Imp of the Mind by Ruth Baer
Dare to Challenge OCD by Joan Davidson
Living Beyond OCD by Dr. Zurita Ona
Is Fred in the Refrigerator?: Taming OCD & Reclaiming My Life by Shala Nicely
Everyday Mindfullness for OCD by Shala Nicely
Breaking the Rules of OCD by Kim Rockwell Evans

Online Dating

Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating by Dan Slater

I Can’t Believe I’m Buying This Book: A Common Sense Guide to Successful Internet Dating by Evan Marc Katz

Panic Disorder

When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life by David D. Burns

Pass Through Panic: Freeing Yourself from Anxiety and Fear by Claire Weekes

Anxiety and Avoidance: A Universal Treatment for Anxiety, Panic, and Fear Paperback by Michael A. Tompkins

Problematic Eating Behaviors

The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Bulimia: a Guide to Breaking Free from Bulimia Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Emily Sandoz, Kelly Wilson and Troy DuFrene

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life by Jenni Schaefer

Social Phobia

Dying of Embarrassment: Help for Social Anxiety and Phobia by Barbara G. Markway, C. Alec Pollard, Teresa Flynn and Cheryl N. Carmin
The Mindful Path Through Shyness: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Help Free You from Social Anxiety, Fear, and Avoidance by Steve Flowers and Jeffrey Brantley
Social Courage by Eric Goodman
The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Social Anxiety and Shyness by Jan E. Fleming and Nancy L. Kocovski

Specific Phobia

Mastering Your Fears and Phobias: Workbook (Treatments That Work) by Martin M. Antony, Michelle G. Craske and David H. Barlow

The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook (Anxiety & Phobia Workbook) by Edmund J. Bourne

Mastery of Your Specific Phobia: Client Workbook (TherapyWorks) by Martin M. Antony, Michelle G. Craske and David H. Barlow

Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Related Conditions

I Can’t Get Over It by Afrodita Matsakis
Finding Life Beyond Trauma by Victoria Follette and Jacqueline Pistorello

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder by Katharine A. Phillips
Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Mine and Yours: A Personal and Clinical Perspective by Scott M. Granet
The BDD Workbook: Overcome Body Dysmorphic Disorder and End Body Image Obsessions by James Claiborn Cherlene Pedrick

Stress

The Mindful Freakout by Eric Goodman

Panic

Panic Attacks Workbok by David Carbonell

FOR TEENS AND CHILDREN

Emotion Dysregulation

Stopping the Pain: A Workbook for Teens Who Cut and Self-injure by Lawrence Shapiro
Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens by Sheri Van Dijk
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills for helping You Manage Mood Swings, Control Angry Outbursts, and Get Along with Others by
How to Parent a Troubled Teen by Dr. Zurita Ona

Mindfulness

Sitting Still Like Frog: Mindfulness Exercizes for Kids (and Their Parents) by Eline Snel, Myla Kabat-Zinn and John Kabat-Zinn

Get out of Your Mind and into Your Life for Teens: J. Ciarrochi, Louise Hayes, and Ann Bailey

OCD

The ACT Workbook for Teens with OCD

Anxiety

The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Teens with Anxiety by Sheri L. Turrell

Worry

Outsmarting Worry: An Older Kid’s Guide to Manage Anxiety by Dawn Huebner

FOR PARENTS

For Parents: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Take Control of OCD: The Ultimate Guide for Kids With OCD by Bonnie Zucker

The Ray of Hope: A Teenagers fight against OCD by Ray St. John

Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Powerful, Practical Program for Parents of Children and Adolescents by Tamar Ellsas Chansky

Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser and A.J. Allen

Helping Your Child with OCD: A Workbook for Parents of Children With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Lee Fitzgibbons and Cherlene Pedrick

For Parents: Emotion Dysregulation

Parenting a Child with Intense Emotions by Pat Harvey

For Parents: General Parenting Skills

Parents And Adolescents Living Together: Part 1, The Basics by Gerald R. Patterson and Marion S. Forgatch
Parents and Adolescents Living Together by Gerald R. Patterson and Marion S. Forgatch

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testimonials

"Working with Patricia Zurita Ona has changed and saved my life. I have struggled off and on for years with sever anxiety disorder and OCD . I have been to therapy throughout the years and have found some helpful but nothing really got to the core of the problem. I often felt crazy and that my incredible fear and my phobias would remain with me thorough my life, I would not drive on the freeway, eat certain things and had constant catastrophic thinking, thus creating a lot of depression.

I needed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy which I saw advertised on many therapists’ websites. When I would call most of them they said they offered it and specialized with Anxiety Disorder/ OCD which was not the case. I had felt alone, hopeless and frustrated for the past 9 years. Never feeling like I was getting the help I needed. It was not until I started meeting with Patricia that I actually started to feel better and feel as if I had control over my life and started to live again ...

“Patricia and her team have completely changed my life! I cannot express my gratitude enough.

She helped me craft values and goals I wanted to have in my relationships, and walked me through each step of how to get there. Her methods are simple, manageable, and make sense when you are upset. I’ve been to therapists who have told me to take deep breaths, visualize calming colors, rip paper, go for a walk or scream in to a pillow when im angry. But in the moment, when im soooo angry, none of these world work. I would forget to do them, or I would already be so angry, that they were ineffective to help me calm down. Patricia’s methods are not only EXTREMELY effective, but they are easy to do, they make sense in the moment, and they bring about radical change when you apply them ...

“I do not know how it reflects on my credibility should I happen to brag about being a seasoned vet when it comes to therapists and mental wellness pursuits. Regardless, I am. And on top of that, I also happen to be a health care practitioner myself. This means, for the purposes of a review, that when I walk into a new Doctor’s office, there is an additional dimension of critiquing for me to process. I would never willingly put myself under the guidance and care of a Doctor who did not 1) Impress me as a capable and honest caregiver and 2) Impress me as a professional colleague.

– Empathy
– Knowledge
– Professionalism
– Respect

I think that these are the basic bulletpoints that strike me when I consider why I think so highly of Patricia. Dr. Zurita takes NOTHING more seriously than the pursuit of her profession. Except possibly you, the patient.

Some therapists really care.

Other therapists are extremely knowledgeable.

Very few therapists are both. Patricia Zurita Ona is one of those very few.”