Helpful Resources

Below are some helpful books about the brain: how it's developed, how traumatic information is processed and stored, and how this impacts human behavior.  They are listed in the order in which the educational content builds off of each other.  Beneath these are helpful articles that provide a backdrop of understanding regarding the structure of Adrienne's sessions, her clinical approach to healing the brain, and other insightful information.

The Whole Brain Child

Dan Siegel, MD

Parts Work

Tom Holmes

Getting Past Your Past

Francine Shapiro, Ph.D.

It Didn't Start With You

Mark Wolynn

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog

Bruce Perry, MD, Ph.D.

Waking the Tiger

Peter Levine

The Body Remembers

Babette Rothschild, MSW

Selling Bad Therapy to Trauma Victims

Jonathan Shedler, Ph.D.

Ninety Minute Therapy Sessions

Isadora Alman, MFT, CST

What is EMDR and How Does it Work?

Sarah Thacker, LPC

Why a Bottom-Up Approach to Trauma Therapy is So Powerful

Robyn E. Brickel, MA, LMFT

TRAUMA, Transformation, and Healing!

Heena Kumari

How Dealing With Past Trauma May Be The Key To Breaking Addiction

The Guardian

Ego State Therapy

Resource Therapy International

Research Overview of EMDR

Various publications

EMDR International Association

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