Bipolar XL Book by Therapyhead®
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The Adventures of a Therapist with Bipolar II Disorder
A Solution-Focused approach to life.
By Allyson Tomchin, LCSW aka Therapyhead®
#1 Best Seller on Amazon
Top 10 Must-Read for Bipolar Disorder in 2025
Recognized by BP Hope, Bipolar XL earned the #5 spot on their Top 10 Must-Read Books on Bipolar Disorder for 2025 list. This honor reflects the book’s real, unfiltered perspective and its message that living with bipolar disorder doesn’t mean living small.
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Can you be both a mental health professional and someone who struggles with mental illness? Absolutely!
In this bold and deeply personal memoir, Allyson Tomchin, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker shatters stigmas by sharing her own journey with bipolar disorder—all while successfully running a business, raising a family, and leading a fulfilling life. With humor, honesty, and a refreshingly unfiltered voice, she challenges the mental health field to practice what it preaches—that people with mental illness are not only capable but can thrive.
This book is a call to embrace authenticity and reject the pressure to appear “fine.” With a Solution Focused Approach, it helps us recognize that solutions lie in acknowledging our struggles while leveraging our strengths. Through a mix of heartfelt and humorous stories, Allyson weaves together resilience, adaptation, and the power of self-acceptance—universal lessons for anyone navigating life’s challenges.
Insightful and uplifting, this memoir is more than just one woman’s story—it’s a movement toward greater understanding, compassion, and growth.
Meet Allyson Tomchin, LCSW
She started Therapyhead® to show what therapy could be. It is possible for therapy to be enjoyable and helpful.
Allyson has over 30 years of experience helping others get through many situations in life. Before starting her practice, she worked in Social Services in Substance Abuse and Gang Prevention. Working in private practice as a Licensed Psychotherapist for the past 22 years she has worked with clients aging from 14 to 80.
Allyson has been on the street, in the courtroom, in the classroom at FAU, at multiple events as a Public Speaker, done a TEDx talk, YouTube Talk Show, contributed to South Florida Parenting Magazine and was named 100 Outstanding Women of Broward County.
She has worked with well over 1000 people over her dynamic career in the private and public sector as a psychotherapist and public speaker.