by Susie Rome | Aug 18, 2026 | Article, Couples Therapy, Relationships
Lonely in a Long-Term Relationship: What to Do When You Feel Alone Inside Your Marriage There is a particular kind of loneliness that is more confusing and, in some ways, more painful than ordinary solitude: the loneliness of feeling fundamentally alone inside a...
by Susie Rome | Aug 11, 2026 | Adolescent Therapy, Article, Depression and Anxiety
Preparing Your Teenager for the Transition Back to School: A Therapist Perspective As August arrives, a particular kind of tension begins to build in many households. Summer’s unstructured ease is giving way to the anticipation of a new school year, and for some...
by Susie Rome | Aug 4, 2026 | Article, Depression and Anxiety
Perfectionism Is Not a Virtue: How the Pursuit of Flawlessness Quietly Damages Your Life Perfectionism is one of the few psychological patterns that is routinely offered as a credential. People describe themselves as perfectionists in job interviews as a way of...
by Susie Rome | Jul 21, 2026 | Article, Couples Therapy, Relationships
Individual Therapy vs. Couples Therapy: How to Know Which One You Actually Need One of the most common questions people bring to an initial consultation is whether to pursue individual therapy, couples therapy, or both simultaneously. It is a reasonable question and...
by Susie Rome | Jul 14, 2026 | Article, Depression and Anxiety, Family Therapy
The Sandwich Generation: Caring for Aging Parents While Raising a Family of Your Own There is a period in many people’s lives, typically in their forties and early fifties, when the demands of caregiving converge from two directions simultaneously. Children are...
by Susie Rome | Jul 7, 2026 | Article, Depression and Anxiety
Shame and the Stories We Tell Ourselves: How Therapy Helps You Rewrite the Narrative Shame is one of the most universal human experiences and one of the least discussed, partly because the nature of shame is to keep itself hidden. Unlike guilt, which says “I did...
by Susie Rome | Jun 20, 2026 | Article, Depression and Anxiety
The Practice of Self-Compassion: Learning to Treat Yourself the Way You Treat the People You Love Most of the people I work with in Hidden Hills and Calabasas would never speak to a friend, a child, or a partner the way they speak to themselves. They are kind,...
by Susie Rome | Jun 18, 2026 | Article, Depression and Anxiety, Relationships
Men in Therapy: Dismantling the Myth That Asking for Help Is Weakness Men are significantly less likely than women to seek mental health support, and the reasons for this disparity are not mysterious: most men have absorbed, at a very young age, a set of messages...
by Susie Rome | Jun 13, 2026 | Article, Couples Therapy, Relationships
When Relationships Become Exhausting: Recognizing and Recovering From Emotional Burnout as a Couple There is a particular kind of relational exhaustion that does not make the news and does not usually bring people to a crisis point, but quietly erodes the quality of a...
by Susie Rome | Jun 11, 2026 | Article, Depression and Anxiety, Relationships
Anger Is Not the Enemy: Understanding What Your Anger Is Trying to Tell You Of all the emotions people bring to therapy, anger is the one most often accompanied by shame. People describe their anger as a problem, a flaw, something that needs to be managed, controlled,...
