Author Khara Croswaite Brindle

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The Empowerment Model of Clinical Supervision: The supervision relationship redefined for successful navigation through the complexities of community mental health (2019, 1st Ed., 2023 2nd Ed.)

A book for mental health leaders and clinical supervisors that introduces a modern model for clinical supervision. Check out 40+ clinical vignettes for supervisors and supervisees!

As we know, there is often times poor leadership in community mental health settings.

This book is a modern approach to supervision that looks at how important and unique the decisions of leadership and supervision can be in community mental health settings.

The vignettes support critical thinking and can be used as a teaching tool for organizations and supervisees to grow professionally when serving diverse clients in mental health.
— Paulina, Amazon 5-Star Review
 

Perfectioneur From Workaholic to Well-Balanced: One Therapist’s Guide to Get You There (2020)

Available in English and Spanish, this Amazon #1 Best-Seller gives driven professionals 22 tools for work-life balance! Check out the workbook (below) which is also available on Amazon to experience each exercise!

If you are an entrepreneur like me, the drive that helps you succeed can also lead you into burnout. This book is a perfect resource to help yourself out of burnout and to prevent getting there in the first place. The author uses her own experiences to motivate you to strive for balance in your life, and helpful ideas to get you there. And if you are considering going into business for yourself, the sooner you read this and incorporate the author’s suggestions, the better you will succeed overall. I can’t recommend this book strongly enough!
— Cathy, Amazon 5-Star Review
 

Helpers with Hashimoto’s: The Rise of Thyroid Conditions in Helping Professionals and What We Can Do About It (2021)

Exploring the connection between helping professionals’ compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma with the rising number of thyroid conditions, this book gives tools for wellness and burnout prevention.

 
I read this book about a year ago and it still sticks with me. The lessons and tools the author shares are so valuable, and it just felt like someone finally understood my symptoms. The chapter on stress and information on gut and nutrition was particularly helpful. Great book, I refer back to it often!
— Amazon Customer, 5-Star Review
 

The Density of Satisfaction: Gluttonous and Gluten-Free High-Altitude Baking (2023)

Celebrating our love for desserts, this cookbook features 20 family recipes that are delicious and gluten-free! Enjoy baked treats that are gooey, buttery, chocolately, and so flavorful that they taste as good or better than the gluten originals!

This cookbook is amazing! Every recipe so far has come out so perfect and delicious! Highly recommend (even if you need to use regular flour)!!! Perfect book for anyone who has a sweet tooth and wants amazing gluten free recipes to enjoy!
— Laura, Amazon 5-Star Review
 

Understanding Rupture in Mother-Daughter Relationships: Guiding the Adult Daughter’s Healing Journey Through the Estrangement Energy Cycle (2023)

Featuring therapeutic tools for any stage of the adult daughter’s journey, this book explores the causes of mother-daughter relationship rupture and estrangement. Access the tools, warning signs quiz, and clinical competencies checklist, available for download at estrangemenetenergycycle.com.

A compassionate approach to an issue that is too often seen as taboo and uncomfortable, Khara Croswaite Brindle’s book is an essential guide and must-read for clinicians, therapists, life coaches, and other mental health professionals who work with adult daughters estranged from their mothers. Understanding Ruptured Mother-Daughter Relationships thoroughly explores the aptly named Estrangement Energy Cycle through the experiences of several of the author’s clients and offers therapeutic tools and practices. This book will also be helpful to anyone who knows, cares about, or loves an adult daughter who is estranged from her mother.
— Karen C. L. Anderson, author of Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration; and the upcoming You Are Not Your Mother: Releasing Generational Trauma & Shame
 

Penny McGee’s Family Tree: Talking to kids about family estrangement (2024)

Helping parents, therapists, and family members talk to elementary-aged kids about family estrangement, this story takes readers through Penny’s homework assignment and a compassionate conversation on family with her parents.

This book is an invaluable resource for parents who are uncertain how to broach the complex subject of estrangement with their children. Little minds want to understand what is going on when their family dynamics get disrupted, and this book provides an accessible resource for developing children at a level they can integrate. As both a clinician myself and a parent of little ones, I highly recommend this book.
— Amazon reviewer
 

Moving from ALERT to Acceptance: Helping Clinicians Heal from Client Suicide (2024)

For clinicians and mental health leaders, this book covers suicide assessment and safety planning in measurable and empowering ways that takes away some of the fear of asking about suicide when working with clients of diverse backgrounds. Experience a modern, compassionate take on suicide assessment in this book through client stories, and explore how you can adopt the ALERT suicide assessment framework into your own client work. With a predicted 1 in 4 mental health professionals losing a client to suicide sometime in their career, this book also serves to explore this life-altering event, including an in-depth look at the personal and professional impact on clinicians through therapist stories, the mental health leadership and support needed to heal, and tools that encourage a purposeful transition from crippling anxiety and grief towards post-traumatic growth and meaning.

Too often, the mental health difficulties we experience as therapists are kept hidden, left unspoken. A therapist may fear that others will think they are ‘a bad therapist’ if a client dies by suicide, or even when a therapist is struggling to heal from it. This holds true for many of the difficulties we have, particularly those that have any level of shame or stigma attached to them. Moving from ALERT to Acceptance: Helping Clinicians Heal from Client Suicide is a raw and unfettered look at what happens in a therapist’s heart when a client dies by suicide, and it maps a journey towards healing after such a painful experience. As a clinician myself, I am grateful that Ms. Croswaite Brindle has the courage to share this experience; it is a relief to really know that others in our therapist community feel this, and that there is a way to move through the darker times in our work.
— Cathy Wilson, LPC, ACS, counselor; educator; author of One Last Act: A Mental Health Clinician’s Guide to Professional Wills, The Emotional Impact of Being Scammed and How to Recover, and Boundaries of Steel: A Workbook for Managing and Recovering from Toxic Relationships

Helping Clinicians Heal from Client Suicide - A Workbook (2024)

Are you seeking tools to heal from client suicide? Do you have a colleague, employee, or supervisee needing additional support? This workbook is crafted by two Clinician Survivors to help others on their healing journey. Learn more about our intentions and hopes for our community in the video below!

Are you looking for a digital copy? Grab it here.

 

Your Enneagram and Money: Transforming Enneagram Edges and Money Challenges into Money Healing and Financial Freedom (Early 2025)

Available in early 2025, explore the intersection of your Enneagram type and financial behaviors to discover a better relationship with your money!

The connection of The Enneagram with one’s relationship to money, has had little focus and certainly not to the extent that these two authors have done. This book will enable those who are fans, or practitioners, of The Enneagram to gain a completely new understanding of how these personality types affect our relationship with money. We are excited to be able to help bring this much needed work into the Enneagram space
— Journey Institute Publisher, Michael Jenet

Check out Khara’s Easy-to-download E-Books Too!

Catalysts in Counseling: Strategies to Strengthen Your Practice (written for mental health professionals)

Building Better Boundaries: Navigating the ‘No’ to Improve Physical, Relational, and Emotional Wellness (written for everyone!)

Human in the Helper: Interview Series first found on our blog, this e-book features 20 inspiring stories of other mental health professionals and leaders who’ve overcome adversity in private practice

Understanding the Impact of Adverse Psychological Events (APEs) in Mental Health Practice —May 28, 2024 Version