Resources
"As long as you're wanting to be thinner, smarter, more enlightened, less uptight, or whatever it might be, somehow you're always going to be approaching your problem with the very same logic that created it...that you're not good enough."
- Pema Chodron -
Books
Relationships
Passionate Marriage by David Schnarch
Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
10 Lessons to Transform Your Marriage by John Gottman
Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist by Margalis Fjelstad
The Rough Patch: Midlife and the Art of Living Together by Daphne de Marneffe
Gender Identity
Just Add Hormones by Matt Kailey (memoir)
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (fiction)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (fiction)
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth
Family Relationships
Leaving Home by David P. Celani
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed by Jessica Lahey
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis by Nancy McWilliams
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy by Nancy McWilliams
Mindfulness
Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron
The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
Making Changes
Motivational Interviewing by William R. Miller & Stephen Rollnick
Depression & Self-Esteem
Self-Esteem by Matthew McKay & Patrick Fanning
Anorexia Workbook by Michelle Heffner & Georg H. Eifert
Health Care
For a comprehensive list of resources related to gender transition, please contact me directly.
Audio Learning & Podcasts
Great Ideas in Psychology and The Story of Psychology
To the Best of Our Knowledge – Transgender Identity
Low-Cost & Sliding Fee Scale Therapy
For low-cost, high quality individual therapy, meet my clinical supervisee, Ali Takata.
HIV/AIDS & STI Services
All are low cost or free and LGBTQ friendly unless otherwise noted.
Mental Health & Psychiatric Emergencies
Psychiatric Emergency Services
512-472-HELP
911 – Ask for a Mental Health Officer – they have special training in assessing mental health conditions and can help connect you to appropriate services.
Shoal Creek Hospital
Austin Lakes Hospital
Austin State Hospital (ASH) – a resource if you do not have health insurance
Trevor Lifeline, a suicide prevention hotline for young people – 866-488-7386
In-School Mental Health Resources
Gender Identity & Sexual Orientation-Related Resources
Central Texas Transgender Health Coalition
Gender and Sexuality Center at UT
“About a Boy” by Margaret Talbot in The New Yorker Magazine, March 18, 2013.