Books like How to Be Your Own Therapist

How to Be Your Own Therapist by Patricia Farrell reads as practical, empowering. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Feeling Good

David D. Burns · 1980

Both explore cognitive behavioral therapy & mental health

73% genome match

Control Your Mind and Master Your Feelings

Eric Robertson · 2019

Both explore emotional regulation & cognitive behavioral therapy

78% genome match

Rewire Your Anxious Brain

Catherine M. Pittman · 2014

Both explore cognitive behavioral therapy & mental health

84% genome match

Drive yourself sane!

Susan Presby Kodish · 1993

Both explore mental health & emotional regulation

82% genome match

A guide to rational living

Albert Ellis · 1961

Both explore cognitive behavioral therapy & emotional regulation

76% genome match

Women Who Think Too Much

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema · 2003

Both explore mental health & coping mechanisms

72% genome match

The depression workbook

Mary Ellen Copeland · 1992

Both explore mental health & coping mechanisms

72% genome match

Love is never enough

Aaron T. Beck · 1988

Both explore cognitive behavioral therapy

70% genome match

Depression

Dorothy Rowe · 1991

Both explore mental health & coping mechanisms

69% genome match

Handbook of self-help therapies

Patti Lou Watkins · 2007

Both explore mental health & self-improvement

66% genome match

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

Julie Smith · 2022

Both explore mental health & coping mechanisms

76% genome match

Self-esteem

Matthew McKay · 1986

Same self-help feel

60% genome match