Phyllis Books

Dr. Phyllis Books is a pioneering clinician and the founder of Books Neural Therapy®, a multi-level brain-body methodology developed over nearly forty years of research and hands-on practice with thousands of children and adults. Her work integrates cutting-edge neuroscience, somatic intelligence, trauma resolution, cranial sacral therapy and developmental neurology into a precise, whole-system approach for restoring clarity, learning, emotional regulation, and resilience.

A holistic doctor and lifelong explorer of human potential, Dr. Books has helped reverse learning and behavioral challenges — including dyslexia, ADHD, anxiety, and trauma-related patterns — in clients ranging from young children to high-performing adults to elders in their seventies and eighties. Her clinical outcomes have frequently confounded traditional expectations and contributed to shifting conversations around neuroplasticity across the lifespan.

Dr. Books is the author of Reversing Dyslexia and Books Neural Therapy: Retraining Brains to Learn Faster and Easier, and her forthcoming prescriptive memoir In the Whispers, which traces her own journey from adversity to healing and the origins of her methodology. Her latest work, Beautiful Brain, Beautiful Life, synthesizes four decades of clinical mastery with emerging science and offers readers a practical roadmap for reclaiming their innate brain potential.

Across her career, Dr. Books has served as teacher, mentor, and guide to practitioners, parents, and educators worldwide. She has worked individually with high-level politicians, ex-NFL football players, movie stars, entrepreneurs, and always her first love, children. Now, at seventy-nine, she writes and teaches with the urgency and generosity of someone committed to ensuring that her lifetime of discoveries continues to help future generations.

Her life’s mission is simple and profound: to help people of all ages access the brilliance, resilience, and creativity — and to do so in a way that ripples positive change through families, communities, and the world.