If money is a barrier. I recommend borrowing books from your local library.

Clients/Lay People

• SHAME: Should Have Already Mastered Everything: How Unresolved Shame Gets in the Way of Our Humanity

• The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships by Diane Poole Heller

• Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

• The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color

• The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

• Leaving Home: The Art of Separating From Your Difficult Family

• Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing by Daniel Foor

• Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships by Nedra Glover Tawwab

• Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab

• Getting Unstuck from PTSD: Using Cognitive Processing Therapy to Guide Your Recovery

• It's Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self By Hilary Jacobs Hendel

• Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Sue Johnson

• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson

• Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Daily Life by Jamie Marich

• Not the Price of Admission: Healthy Relationships after Childhood Trauma By Laura Brown

• The Drama of the Gifted Child: The by for the True Self By Alice Miller

• Kissing the Limitless: Deep Magic and the Great Work of Transforming Yourself and the World

• Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair

• Understanding the Borderline Mother by Christina Lawson

• Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem

• Complex PTSD: From Surviving To Thriving by Pete Walker

• What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo

• What Happened To You? By Bruce Perry

• A Practical Guide to Complex PTSD by Arielle Schwartz

• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness by Richard Schwartz

• The Deepest Well by Nadine Burke

• The Drama Of The Gifted Child by Alice Miller

• Running On Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect by Jonice Webb

• The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron

• Codependent No More by Melody Beattie

• Becoming Safely Embodied by Diedre Fay

• My Grandmother’s Hand by Resmaa Menakem

• Emotional Inheritance by Galit Atlas

• Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal by Belleruth Naparstak

• Man’s Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl

• Journey Through Trauma by Gretchen Schmelzer

• The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller

• Ambiguous Loss by Pauline Boss

• It’s Okay That You’re Not Okay by Megan Devine

• Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience by Sheila Wise Rowe

• When The Body Says No by Gabor Mate

• It’s Not Me: Understanding Complex Trauma, Attachment, and Dissociation

• 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery by Babette Rothschild

• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron

• Boundaries After a Pathological Relationship by Cheri Huber

Clinicians

• Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services

• Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans by David Eng & Shinhee Han

• Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino - American Postcolonial Psychology by E.J.R. David

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

• Healing the Soul Wound: Counseling with American Indians and Other Native People by Eduardo Duran

• The Cost of Racism for People of Color: Contextualizing Experiences of Discrimination

• Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation: A Practical, Integrative Approach by Kathy Steele

• Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma by Babette Rothschild

• How Connections Heal: Stories from Relational-Cultural Therapy by Maureen Walker

• The Power of Connection: Recent Developments in Relational-Cultural Theory by Judith Jordan

• The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are by Daniel Siegel

• Healing Developmental Trauma by Laurence Heller

• Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child By Alice Miller

• Trauma and the Soul: A psycho-spiritual approach to human development and its interruption by Donald Kalsched

• Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing by Suzanne Methot

• Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy

• The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

• Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman

• The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization

• The Trauma Treatment Handbook by Robin Shapiro

• Easy Ego State Interventions: Strategies For Working With Parts

• Healing Trauma by Peter Levine

• Healing The Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors by Janina Fisher

• The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe By Steven Porges

• Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual: Trauma-Informed Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, PTSD & Substance Abuse

• Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems by Frank Anderson

• Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development

• Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society by Bessel van der Kolk

• Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families by Sue Johnson

• The Interpersonal World Of The Infant by Daniel Stern

• Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity by Stephen Mitchell
  

Complex Trauma Book Resources

Forums

• Out of the Storm

Facebook

• Nate Postlethwait

• Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle

• Subtle Asian Mental Health

• Trauma Informed Parent

• Survivors of CPTSD

• Healing Path To CPTSD

• Child Abuse Survivor

• CPTSD Sufferers & Support

• CPTSD

• CPTSD Foundation

• CPTSD & Me

Discord

• CPTSD & PTSD Support

Reddit

• Reddit: A support community for those affected by C-PTSD

• Reddit: CPTSD Next Steps. A sister subreddit of /r/CPTSD. This community is meant for those in the intermediate and late stages of recovery, offering a place for sharing insights and techniques for recovery, as well as space for more nuanced and open conversations.

• Asian Parent Stories: A community where people can share their experiences of growing up with Asian parents, specifically, those who are strict, abusive, or have impossible expectations.

• Raised By Narcissists: This is a support group for people raised by abusive parents (with toxic, self-absorbed or abusive personality traits, which may be exhibited by those who suffer from cluster B personality disorders).

Quora

• Quora: C-PTSD Support space
  

ACES (Kaiser Study)

• Adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, are traumatic events that occur in childhood (0-17 years).
  Experiences include: Physical or emotional abuse, neglect Observing violence in the community Caregiver with mental illness

Neuroplasticity

• Neuroplasticity can be viewed as a general umbrella term that refers to the brain's ability to modify, change, and adapt both structure and function throughout life and in response to experience.

Post Traumatic Growth

• What is posttraumatic growth? It is a positive change experienced as a result of the struggle with a major life crisis or a traumatic event. Although we coined the term posttraumatic growth, the idea that human beings can be changed by their encounters with life challenges, sometimes in radically positive ways, is not new. The theme is present in ancient spiritual and religious traditions, literature, and philosophy. What is reasonably new is the systematic study of this phenomenon by psychologists, social workers, counselors, and scholars in other traditions of clinical practice and scientific investigation.
  

The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation

• An international non-profit, professional association organized to develop and promote comprehensive, clinically-effective and empirically-based resources and responses to trauma and dissociation and to address its relevance to other theoretical constructs.

PTSD: National Center for PTSD (VA)

• The Veterans Health Administration is America’s largest integrated health care system, providing care at 1,321 health care facilities, including 172 medical centers and 1,138 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics), serving 9 million enrolled Veterans each year.

• What Is Complex Trauma: A Resource Guide for Youth and Those Who Care About Them

• Complex Trauma Spotlight Report – Living with and Healing from Complex Trauma – Digital Download

• NAMI

• Pay What You Can Peer Support

• CPTSD Safe Groups

• Adult Survivors of Child Abuse

• Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families

Apps

• PTSD Coach: Mobile App

• Mindfulness Coach: Mobile App

• What’s Up?

Websites

• PTSD Coach Online

• Make a Safety Plan

• Out Of The Storm

Guides

• PTSD and CPTSD self-help guide

Tests

• Attachment Style Quiz

• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

• Healing & CPTSD

• Alice Miller’s Childhood Trauma Blog/Reader’s Mail

• Complex Trauma.Org

• Out of the Storm

• NICABM

• Beauty After Bruises

• Psych Alive

• Brown Girl Trauma

• Echo Training

Click here to find a list of trauma specialists. Scroll down to the second module titled "Specialists".