Relationships > Couples/Couples Therapy
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Jessica Fern Polywise
A Deeper Dive into Navigating Open Relationships Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern and restorative justice facilitator David Cooley share the insights they have gained through thousands of hours working with clients in consensually non-monogamous relationships. Using a grounded theory approach, they explore the underlying challenges that non-monogamous individuals and partners can experience after their first steps, offering practical strategies for transforming them into opportunities for new levels of clarity and intimacy. Polywise provides both the conceptual framework to better understand the shift from monogamy to nonmonogamy and the tools to navigate the next steps.
$33.95
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Jessica Fern Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate secure monogamous relationships. What if, like many people, you're striving for secure, happy attachments with more than one partner? Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern breaks new ground by extending attachment theory into the realm of consensual nonmonogamy. Using her nested model of attachment and trauma, she expands our understanding of how emotional experiences can influence our relationships. Then, she sets out six specific strategies to help you move toward secure attachments in your multiple relationships. Polysecure is both a trailblazing theoretical treatise and a practical guide.
$26.95
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Sue Johnson The Hold Me Tight Workbook: A Couple's Guide for a Lifetime of Love
A companion workbook to Dr. Sue Johnson's million-copy bestseller Hold Me Tight, packed with exercises, conversation prompts, and activities to help couples strengthen their bond, deepen their intimacy, and cultivate a lifetime of love. Drawing on the latest developments in Emotionally Focused Therapy, a field pioneered by Dr. Johnson, The Hold Me Tight Workbook is packed with sage wisdom and science-backed advice, as well as compelling conversation prompts, exercises, activities, and resources to help couples work through conflict and achieve greater levels of intimacy. Whether you're celebrating your 50th anniversary or your first, The Hold Me Tight Workbook is an invaluable guide to cultivating a deeper connection - and more fulfilling relationship - with the person you love most.
$35.99
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Emily Nagoski Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections
From the New York Times bestselling author of Come as You Are and co-author of Burnout comes an illuminating exploration of how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship. In her first book, Emily Nagoski, PhD, revolutionized the way we think about women's sexuality. Now, she takes on a fundamentally misunderstood subject: sex in long-term relationships. Nagoski dispels the myths we've been taught about sex - for instance, the belief that sexual satisfaction and desire are highest at the beginning of a relationship and that they inevitably decline the longer that relationship lasts. This book isn't about how much we want sex, or how often we're having it; it's about whether we like the sex we're having. Break down the obstacles that impede you from enjoying sex - from stress and body image to relationship difficulties and gendered beliefs about how sex "should" be; learn the best ways to overcome them. With scientific rigor, humor, and compassion, Nagoski shows us what great sex can look like, how to create it in our own lives, and what to do when struggles arise.
$27.99
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Janis Spring After the Affair, Third Edition: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful
This book offers proven strategies for surviving the crisis and rebuilding the relationship. This revised and updated version brings the groundbreaking classic into the 21st century, with a section dealing with online affairs in cyberspace. For women who are struggling in their marriage-and for clinicians, psychology academics and readers fascinated by of popular psychology-this is essential reading.
$29.50
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Dr. Richard C. Schwartz You Are The One You've Been Waiting For
Applying Internal Family Systems to Intimate Relationships Do loving relationships end because couples lack communication skills, struggle to empathize, and fail to accommodate each other's needs? That's a common belief within and outside of the therapeutic world but what if it's all wrong? In You Are the One You've Been Waiting For, Dr. Richard Schwartz, the celebrated founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, offers a new way a path toward courageous love that replaces the striving, dependent, and disconnected approach to solving relationship challenges. The breakthrough realization of IFS is that our psyche contains multiple parts, each with a life of its own. Most problems in relationships arise because we unknowingly burden our partner with the task of caring for our disowned and unloved parts. In this book, you'll discover essential insights and tools to foster healthy dialogue with your parts and your partner.
$26.99
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Stan Tatkin Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship
Wired for Love is a complete insider’s guide to understanding your partner’s brain and enjoying a romantic relationship built on love and trust. Synthesizing research findings on how and why love lasts drawn from neuroscience, attachment theory, and emotion regulation, this book presents ten guiding principles that can improve any relationship.Strengthen your relationship by:Creating and maintaining a safe “couple bubble” Using morning and evening rituals to stay connected Learning to fight so that nobody loses Becoming the expert on what makes your partner feel loved By learning to use simple gestures and words, readers can learn to put out emotional fires and help their partners feel more safe and secure. The no-fault view of conflict in this book encourages readers to move past a "warring brain" mentality and toward a more cooperative "loving brain" understanding of the relationship. This book is essential reading for couples and others interested in understanding the complex dynamics at work behind love and trust in intimate relationships.While there’s no doubt that love is an inexact science, if you can discover how you and your partner are wired differently, you can overcome your differences to create a lasting intimate connection.
$29.95
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What Makes Love Last?
How to Build Trust and Avoid Betrayal In this insightful book, celebrated research psychologist and couples counselor John Gottman plumbs the mysteries of love and shares the results of his famous Love Lab: Where does love come from? Why does some love last, and why does some fade? And how can we keep it alive? Based on laboratory findings, this book shows readers how to identify signs, behaviors, and attitudes that indicate a fraying relationship and provides strategies for repairing what may seem lost or broken.
$26.00
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Mira Kirshenbaum Too Good To Leave, Too Bad To Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship
There are many books that promise to help you fix a bad relationship. This groundbreaking bestseller is the first one to help you choose whether you should even try—or if you need to go.Psychotherapist Mira Kirshenbaum draws on years of research and her work with real-life couples to help you make the right decision. She shows you how to diagnose your unique situation with self-analysis and questions like these, which get to the very heart of your problems:• What sins are forgivable and which ones are unpardonable?• Is your partner questioning your opinions to the point where you doubt yourself?• What is your sex life really like, and how important is it?• Is there real love left between you, and how does it stack up against all that you find unlovable?Mira Kirshenbaum provides expert guidelines that are the key to making all your choices, concrete steps that you can implement right now, and the ultimate way to determine your personal bottom line—what you need to be happy. This remarkably insightful and probing guide offers advice that lets you see the truth about your relationship—and with wisdom and compassion, it helps you act with the confidence of knowing that whether you decide to go or stay, you are doing the very best thing.
$27.99
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Gary Chapman The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate
Are you and your spouse speaking the same language? While love is a many splendored thing, it is sometimes a very confusing thing, too. And as people come in all varieties, shapes, and sizes, so do their choices of personal expressions of love. But more often than not, the giver and the receiver express love in two different ways. This can lead to misunderstanding, quarrels, and even divorce. Quality Time, Words of Affirmation, Gifts, Acts of Service and Physical Touch are the five basic love languages. Dr. Gary Chapman identifies these and guides couples towards a better understanding of their unique languages of love. Learn to speak and understand your mate's love language, and in no time you will be able to effectively love and truly feel loved in return. Skillful communication is within your grasp!
$16.99
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Dr. John M. Gottman Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work Revised
A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert Here is the culmination of John Gottman's work: the seven principles that guide couples on a path toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship. Straightforward yet profound, these principles teach partners new approaches for resolving conflicts, creating new common ground, and achieving greater levels of intimacy. Gottman offers strategies and resources to help couples collaborate more effectively to resolve any problem, whether dealing with issues related to sex, money, religion, work, family, or anything else.
$24.95
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Julie Menanno Secure Love: Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime
What does a healthy relationship look like?A good question, in theory, but couple’s therapist Julie Menanno wants you to consider: what does a securely attached relationship feel like? The answer to this question is the ultimate goal in Secure Love, an “incredibly wise and helpful guide” (Jen Sincero, New York Times bestselling author of You Are a Badass) to understanding secure attachment in adult relationships. While attachment theory has grown in popularity to explain the relationship between children and their caregivers, it’s also the closest science has come to making sense of our adult romantic connections. 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. In doing so, “you’ll be armed with eternal wisdom for strengthening your relationship” (Dr. Sue Johnson, founder of Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples and bestselling author of Hold Me Tight) and establish a secure attachment with your partner to create the bond you’ve been longing for.
$36.99
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Science of Trust
Emotional Attunement for Couples In this new work, Dr. Gottman presents his newest findings on trust, trustworthiness and betrayal in a breakthrough approach to understanding and helping couples. Based upon empirical data from five studies across the life course, Gottman reveals the dynamics in everyday couples’ interactions that either build or erode trust. And there are surprising results. For example, the relationship process that dissolves trust has nothing to do with the process that finally ends in betrayal - they are two separate processes. Most important, Gottman shows clinicians how to block the avalanche towards betrayal by teaching clients the fine art of emotional attunement, and if trust has already fallen prey to poor relationship skills or betrayal, how to reconstitute trust and renew commitment.
$72.99
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Relationship Skills Workbook: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to a Thriving Relationship
Dr. Julia B. Colwell presents a practical guide for building a conscious partnership based on communication, cooperation, and trust-offering a much-needed guide for helping couples disarm the explosive conflicts that most commonly break apart relationships. "While relationships often seem mysterious,"she says, "there are a few elegantly simple concepts that can help any couple through the most difficult spots." Here is a friendly and easy-to-use resource of proven tools for getting unstuck from power struggles, ending the blame game, creating win-win agreements, using on-the-spot crisis and conflict first aid, healing and forgiving after clashes, and much more.
$25.99
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Married To Distraction
Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic connections, and interrupted moments. Edward M. Hallowell, the bestselling co-author of Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction, teams up with his wife, Sue George Hallowell, a couples therapist, to explain the subtle but dangerous toll todays overstretched, under nurtured lifestyle takes on marriage. Just thirty minutes of effort a day for thirty days can restore and repair communication and connection, resurrect long-buried happiness and romance, and strengthen, or even save a marriage.
$23.95
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Dr. Sue Johnson Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships
Every day, we hear of relationships failing and questions of whether humans are meant to be monogamous. Love Sense presents new scientific evidence that tells us that humans are meant to mate for life. Dr. Johnson explains that romantic love is an attachment bond, just like that between mother and child, and shows us how to develop our "love sense"--our ability to develop long-lasting relationships. Love is not the least bit illogical or random, but actually an ordered and wise recipe for survival. Love Sense covers the three stages of a relationship and how to best weather them; the intelligence of emotions and the logic of love; the physical and psychological benefits of secure love; and much more. Based on groundbreaking research, Love Sense will change the way we think about love.
$39.00
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Interpersonal Problems Workbook
ACT to End Painful Relationship Patterns Here are evidence-based techniques for strengthening relationships in all areas in life - at home, at work, with a significant other, a parent, or a child. Based in both schema therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), it's designed to help you connect and communicate effectively with those around you. ACT skills include present moment awareness, diffusion, and flexibility-all of which will help you to improve your relationships with others. Learn what your schema is, and how to act on your values to communicate and get along with others. This book presents powerful, effective tools for change.
$35.95
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Toni Herbine-Blank, Martha Sweezy Internal Family Systems Couple Therapy Skills Manual: Healing Relationships with Intimacy From the Inside Out
The IFS Couple Therapy Skills Manual presents clinicians with a powerful, non-pathologizing approach to helping couples better understand themselves, their differences, and the underlying reasons for their suffering. Working from the lens of Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO), the authors provide a highly successful therapy that allows couples to feel understood, to decrease shame, and to reestablish loving connections. Inside you'll find: step-by-step techniques, case examples, experiential exercises, clear treatment explanations, and downloadable worksheets.
$43.95
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Imago Relationship Therapy
Perspective on Theory The author created Imago Relationship Therapy. Their concept of the conscious marriage introduced a new paradigm for understanding the dynamics of couples. This groundbreaking book offers an overview of the highly successful Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) and the relationship of IRT with preceding schools of thought such as psychoanalytic theory, family systems theories, affect theory, and self-psychology. At the heart of IRT is a three-step process involving mirroring (reflecting) the partner's feelings, validating the partner's point of view, and the expressing empathy toward the partner's feelings. The book also presents some of the ideas of prominent Imago thinkers, such as the central role of connectivity and the problem of envy in committed relationships.
$47.00
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David Richo How to Be an Adult in Relationships
This beloved book has touched hundreds of thousands of lives with its profound and actionable advice. Retaining the core message of becoming more mindful in our relationships, this edition includes new and revised material that addresses how we live and love today. A new preface touches on David Richo's experience with the book over time and outlines the key updates, including attention to online dating and modern communication styles as well as new perspectives on anger and ending relationships. Key concepts include: Becoming conscious of our relationship patterns and how they relate to childhood Recognizing and attracting someone who can show adult love Understanding the phases relationships go through Creating and maintaining healthy boundaries Overcoming fears of abandonment and engulfment Expressing anger and other emotions in adult and loving ways
$25.95
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Elaine N. Aron The Highly Sensitive Person In Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You
This book offers practical help for highly sensitive people seeking happier, healthier romantic relationships. Every aspect of highly sensitive people in relationships is covered, from low-stress fighting to sensitive sexuality. Included are self-tests and case studies--and the results from the first survey ever done on sex and temperament. With wonderful advice on making the most of all personality combinations in relationships, Aron offers a wealth of insights for non-highly sensitive people as well.
$24.95
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Alan Fruzzetti The High-Conflict Couple: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy, and Validation
You hear and read a lot about ways to improve your relationship. But if you've tried these without much success, you're not alone. Many highly reactive couples—pairs that are quick to argue, anger, and blame—need more than just the run-of-the-mill relationship advice to solve their problems in love. When destructive emotions are at the heart of problems in your relationship, no amount of effective communication or intimacy building will fix what ails it. If you're part of a "high-conflict" couple, you need to get control of your emotions first, to stop making things worse, and only then work on building a better relationship. The High-Conflict Couple adapts the powerful techniques of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) into skills you can use to tame out-of-control emotions that flare up in your relationship. Using mindfulness and distress tolerance techniques, you'll learn how to deescalate angry situations before they have a chance to explode into destructive fights. Other approaches will help you disclose your fears, longings, and other vulnerabilities to your partner and validate his or her experiences in return. You'll discover ways to manage problems with negotiation, not conflict, and to find true acceptance and closeness with the person you love the most.
$29.95
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Healthy Relationships Bingo Adults
Teaches the skills needed for a healthy relationship and examines key topics like Things to Look For, Red Flags, Green Flags, Obstacles, and Healthy Relationship Skills. Engaging and educational! This game is also part of the BINGO! for Adults Set of 7 Bingos. To learn more about this set go to search and type Bingo.
$62.95
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Getting The Love You Want: A Guide for Couples
20th Anniversary Edition. Divided into three sections, the book covers "The Unconscious Marriage," which details a marriage in which the remaining desires and behavior of childhood interfere with the current relationship; "The Conscious Marriage," which shows a marriage that fulfills those childhood needs in a positive manner; and a 10-week "course in relationship therapy, " which gives detailed exercises for you and your partner to follow in order to learn how to "replace confrontation and criticism... with a healing process of mutual growth and support." The text is occasionally dry and technical; however, the information provided is valuable, the case studies are interesting, and the exercises are revealing and helpful. By utilizing his program, Hendrix hopes you too will be able to solve your marital difficulties without the expense of a therapist.
$24.99
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