Metropolitan Counseling Services
Address: 2801 Buford Hwy NE #470, Atlanta, GA 30329
Phone: (404) 321-1794
www.mcsatlanta.org

Care and Counseling Center of Georgia
Address: 1814 Clairmont Rd, Decatur, GA 30033
Phone: (404) 636-1457
www.cccgeorgia.org

Mercer Family Therapy Center
Address: 1938 Peachtree St NW #107, Atlanta, GA 30309
Phone: (678) 547-6789
www.medicine.mercer.edu/mftc/atlanta

The Link Counseling Center
Address: 348 Mount Vernon Hwy NE, Atlanta, GA 30328
Phone: (404) 256-9797                                              www.thelink.org

Emory Outpatient Psychotherapy Training Program
Address: 12 Executive Park Drive NE, Atlanta, GA 30329
Phone: (404) 778-5526

Emory University Psychological Center
Address: 36 Eagle Row #270, Atlanta, GA 30322
Phone: (404) 727-7438  www.psychology.emory.edu/home/about/psychological-center/index.html

Resources for ADHD / Attention

Time Management for the Creative Person: Right-Brain Strategies for Stopping Procrastination, Getting Control of the Clock and Calendar, and Freeing Up Your Time and Your Life
- Lee Silber, 1998

Making the System Work for Your Child with ADHD
- Peter S. Jensen, MD, 2004

Mastering Your Adult ADHD: A Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program Client Workbook (Treatments That Work)
- Steven A. Safren (Author), Susan Sprich (Author), Carol A. Perlman & Michael W. Otto, 2005

Resources for Couples and Marriages

Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
- Sue Johnson, 2008

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
- John Gottman, 2015

Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships
- Sue Johnson, 2013

The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
- Gary D. Chapman, 2015

The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate
- Gary Chapman, 2004

The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate
- Harriet Lerner, 2002

Resources on Codependency

Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
- Melody Beattie, 1986

Codependent No More Workbook
- Melody Beattie, 2011

I Hate You Don’t Leave Me
- Jerold Kreisman, MD and Hal Straus, 1991

Love is a Choice: The Definitive Book on Letting Go of Unhealthy Relationships
- Paul Meier M.D., Dr. Frank Minirth, Dr. Robert Hemfelt, 2003

The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations for Codependents
- Melody Beattie, 1990

Resources on Trauma

The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, 20th Anniversary Edition
- Ellen Bass, 2008

The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
- Laura Davis, 1990

Voices of Courage: Inspiration from Survivors of Sexual Assault
- Michael Domitrz, 2005

Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy
- Tricia Rose, 2004

Resources on Anxiety and Depression

The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
- Edmund Bourne, 2015

Overcoming Depression: A Cognitive Therapy Approach Workbook (Treatments That Work)
- Mark Gilson, PhD, 2009

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation and Distress Tolerance
- Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood, and Jeffrey Brantley, 2007

Resources on Disordered Eating

Anorexia Nervosa: A Survival Guide for Families, Friends and Sufferers
- Janet Treasure, 1997

Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and StoryTelling
- Anita Johnston, PhD, 2000

Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder
- James Lock, MD / PhD and Daniel La Grange, 2015

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
- Jenni Schaefer, 2009

Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
- Jenni Schaefer, 2003

Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Guidance and Reflections on Recovery from Eating Disorders
- Aimee Liu, 2011

Resources on Self Reflection and Self Esteem

The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem: The Definitive Work On Self Esteem by the Leading Pioneer in the Field
- Nathaniel Branden, 1995

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
- Elizabeth Gilbert, 2015

The Four Agreements - A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
- Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997

Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny
- Hill Harper, 2007

Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny
- Hill Harper, 2009

The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean my Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle and Generally Have More Fun
- Gretchen Rubin, 2011

The Dance of Fear: Rising Above Anxiety, Fear and Shame to Be Your Best and Bravest Self
- Harriet Lerner, 2005

The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
- Elaine Aron, 1997

The Highly Sensitive Person’s Workbook
- Elaine Aron, 1999

Resources for Adults with Difficult Childhoods

Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self (Revised Edition)
- Alice Miller,1996

The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self
- Alice Miller, 2002

The Glass Castle: A Memoir
- Jeannette Walls, 2006

Brene’ Brown Books

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead - 2012

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are - 2010

Rising Strong - 2015

I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t): Making the Journey From “What Will People Think?” to “I Am Enough” - 2007

Resources for Parents

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
- Sean Covey, 2014

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families
- Sean Covey, 1998

How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
- Adele Faber, 2012

How to Talk so Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk
- Adele Faber, 2006

Walking on Eggshells: Navigating the Delicate Relationship Between Adult Children and Parents
- Jane Isay, 2008

Resources for Women

Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
- Harriet Lerner, 2014

Women Who Run with the Wolves
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés PhD, 1996

Bad Feminist
- Roxane Gray, 2014

Love in My Language
- Alexandra Elle, 2014

Resources on Mindfulness and Acceptance

Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Steven Hayes, 2005

Wherever You Go, There You Are
- Jon Kabat-Zin, 1994

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation and Distress Tolerance
- Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood, and Jeffrey Brantley, 2007

A Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Workbook
- Bob Stahl, 2010

Resources on Black Culture

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race
- Beverly Daniel Tatum, 2007

Between the World and Me
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015

Americanah
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2014

Resources For Black Women

Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy
- Tricia Rose, 2004

Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
- Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden, 2004

Stolen Women: Reclaiming Our Sexuality, Taking Back Our Lives
- Gail Wyatt, 1998

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought
- Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Editor), 1995

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America
- Melissa Harris-Perry, 2013

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
- Alice Walker, 2003

The Black Woman, An Anthology
- Toni Cade Bambara (Editor), 2005

Resources on Black Mental Health

Black Suicide: The Tragic Reality of America's Deadliest Secret
- Alton R. Kirk, 2009

Black Man Emerging: Facing the Past and Seizing a Future
- Joseph L. White, 2013

Standing In the Shadows: Understanding and Overcoming Depression in Black Men - John Head, 2004

Black Families in Therapy: Understanding the African American Experience
- Nancy Body-Franklin, 2006

Resources on Grief and Death

On Grief & Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss 

- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, David Kessler, 2014

On Death & Dying: What the Dying have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Ira Byock, 2014

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Great Lesson

- Mitch Albom, 2002

Mental Health Organizations

American Psychological Association (APA)
www.apa.org

American Psychiatric Association
www.psychiatry.org

National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI)
www.nami.org

Association of Black Psychologists
www.abpsi.org

National Institute of Mental Health – Health Info
www.nimh.nih.gov/health/index.shtml

Black Mental Health
www.OurselvesBlack.com

Georgia Psychological Association (GPA)  www.gapsychology.org

Depression and Suicide

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
www.dbsalliance.org

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
www.SuicidePreventionLifeline.org
1-800-273-8255

The Jed Foundation
www.jedfoundation.org