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• For more intensive treatment options than talk therapy alone, Lucent offers Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Programs, Individualized Transitional Services, and Mental Health Housing.

While this list is far from exhaustive, these are stepping stones into the world of nonmonogamy. If anything these texts would help you to begin deeper self reflection and start more intentional conversations with your partner(s) and yourself.

Relationship Bill of Rights

The Ethical Slut

• By Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easton

• Considered one of the formative texts on exploring nonmonogamy. I find it more helpful for gaining new terminology, having a framework for initial conversations and some insight into the start of the nonmonogamy journey.

Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships

• By Tristan Taormino

Radical Relating: A Queer and Polyamory-Informed Guide to Love Beyond the Myth of Monogamy

• By Mel Cassidy

The Anxious Person's Guide to Non-Monogamy

• By Lola Phoenix, LCSW

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

• By Jessica Fern

More Than Two, Second Edition: Cultivating Nonmonogamous Relationships with Kindness and Integrity

• By Eve Rickert

Multiamory Podcast

• A podcast that covers all kinds of nontraditional relationship styles

Entwined: Essays on Polyamory and Creating Home

• By Alex Alberto

Sex is a part of our lives whether we’re actively engaging in it or not. We’re humans! And yet, so much is left a mystery for many of us. Likewise, how did you learn what a relationship is and how to maintain a successful partnership long term? These experts have some real wisdom to share.

Come As You Are

• By Emily Nagoski

• Geared toward AFAB individuals, but useful for many.

Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections

• By Emily Nagoski

Disconnected: Portrait of a Neurodiverse Marriage

• By Eleanor Vincent

• Neurodiversity and conflict in relationships

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

• By John Gottman, PhD

Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

• By Dr. Sue Johnson EdD

By Esther Perel:

• The State Of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity 

• Mating in Captivity :How to keep desire and passion alive in long-term relationships

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

• By Emily Nagoski, PhD and Amelia Nagoski, DMA

• Specifically geared at AFAB individuals but is helpful reading for anyone who feels trapped in the burnout stress cycle.

Major Depressive Disorder

• National Alliance on Mental Illness

Depression and How Therapy Can Help

Neurodiversity Podcast

Your Brain's Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD

• By Tamara Rosier, PhD

A Feminist's Guide to ADHD: How Women Can Thrive and Find Focus in a World Built for Men

• By Janina Maschke

Boundaries and Self-Esteem with Terry Real

Relational LIfe Therapy

• RLT was developed for work within relationships but there are many principles that also align with individual therapy.

Attachment-Based Therapy

• Childhood experiences impact the way our adult brains interact with the world. That sounds simple enough, but it is a complicated web of perceptions, expectations and behaviors.

Hightop Health

Specialty Clinic of Austin

Integral Care