Resources
Free Mental Health Self-Assessments
and Resources.
Below you will find a thoughtful collection of self-assessments and educational content, some created by me, some pointing you toward help beyond what I offer.
Self-Assessments
Curious about yourself? Try these free quizzes.
Each takes about 5 minutes and provides a personalized results profile.
Assessment
Which Part of You Is Running the Show?
Identify whether your heart, your head, or your body has become your default home base. A starting point for understanding why you do what you do.
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When Your Nervous System Takes Over
Discover your dominant survival responses: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn, and how they show up in your relationships and daily life.
Take the Assessment →Recommended Reading
Books I recommend to clients.
Here is a list of books I share with clients and think is worth your time, grouped by what they help with.
Trauma & Nervous System
Mindsight
Siegel introduces “mindsight” as the brain’s capacity to observe and reshape its own patterns. Essentially the ability to see your mind clearly enough to change it.
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Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox
A practical collection of body-based exercises and grounding tools designed to build emotional awareness, nervous system regulation, and mind-body connection.
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Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
A somatic approach to trauma healing focused on how the body holds survival responses and how nervous system regulation can support recovery.
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Attached
An accessible introduction to attachment styles and how they influence emotional needs, communication patterns, and relationship dynamics.
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Set Boundaries, Find Peace
A practical guide to developing healthier boundaries, reducing people-pleasing patterns, and communicating your needs more clearly.
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Hold Me Tight
A framework for understanding the emotional patterns that shape romantic relationships, with tools for building deeper connection, safety, and intimacy.
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Nonviolent Communication
A practical framework for communicating with more clarity, empathy, and emotional awareness. Useful for conflict resolution, expressing needs, and reducing reactive patterns.
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The Upward Spiral
Neuroscientist Alex Korb explains how depression and depletion are self-reinforcing brain patterns, and how small, strategic behavioral changes can reverse the spiral.
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Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
Robert Sapolsky uses sharp wit and rigorous biology to explain how chronic psychological stress is uniquely destructive to the human body and brain.
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Burnout
Emily and Amelia Nagoski use stress biology to explain why high-achievers get stuck in incomplete stress cycles, and what it takes to physiologically complete them.
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Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman reframes the problem of time and productivity through the lens of mortality. A philosophical and practical case for making peace with your limits and choosing what actually matters.
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The Wisdom of the Enneagram
A comprehensive map of the nine personality types that uses the Enneagram as a tool for psychological and spiritual self-understanding and growth.
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The Complete Enneagram
Beatrice Chestnut expands beyond the nine basic types into 27 subtypes, offering a more precise and nuanced framework than most Enneagram books.
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The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram
Sandra Maitri traces each Enneagram type back to its essential spiritual nature, exploring how fixations are distortions of deeper soul qualities.
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If you need immediate support.
If you are in crisis, in danger, or need immediate mental health support, please use the resources below.
If you are in immediate danger, call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room.
National
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
Call or text 988. Available 24/7, free and confidential. Chat online at 988lifeline.org.
Crisis Text Line
Text HOME to 741-741. Available 24/7.
California
Contra Costa Crisis Center
Call or text HOPE to 20121. 24/7 crisis counseling and support, based locally in Walnut Creek.
Contra Costa County 24-Hour Access Line
1-888-678-7277. Available 24/7 for connection to mental health services.
Psychiatric Emergency Services
Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, 2500 Alhambra Avenue, Martinez, CA 94553. Available 24/7 in person.