by Susie Rome | Jun 6, 2026 | Adolescent Therapy, Article, Family Therapy
Summer, Transition, and the Emotional Weight of Change for Families in Calabasas Summer carries a particular emotional weight for families, one that is often obscured by its surface brightness. The end of the school year is a genuine transition, and transitions, even...
by Susie Rome | Jun 4, 2026 | Article, Depression and Anxiety, Family Therapy
The Empty Nest: What Happens to Your Identity When the Children Leave Home Parents spend years, sometimes the better part of two decades, organizing the rhythms of their daily lives around the needs of their children. The school drop-off, the dinner timing, the...
by Susie Rome | May 26, 2026 | Article, Family Therapy, Relationships
Co-Parenting After Divorce: How to Raise Healthy Children When the Marriage Has Ended Divorce ends a marriage. It does not end a family. For parents, that distinction matters enormously, because the relationship between them does not conclude when the legal...
by Susie Rome | May 16, 2026 | Article, Depression and Anxiety
Midlife and the Question You Are Finally Ready to Ask Yourself Midlife does not always arrive with a sports car and an affair, as the cultural caricature suggests. More often, it arrives as a quiet but insistent internal pressure. A question that surfaces in the...
by Susie Rome | May 12, 2026 | Article, Depression and Anxiety
Burnout Is Not a Badge of Honor: What Chronic Stress Is Costing High-Achieving Professionals There is a particular kind of suffering that is almost invisible in high-achieving communities because it looks, from the outside, like success. The person who never stops...
by Susie Rome | May 9, 2026 | Article, Couples Therapy, Relationships
Codependency and the Cost of Disappearing: How to Show Up in Relationships Without Losing Yourself Codependency is one of those terms that gets used broadly and imprecisely, which means many people who actually live with it do not recognize themselves in the...
by Susie Rome | May 5, 2026 | Article, Relationships
Setting Boundaries Without Guilt: Why Limits Are an Act of Love, Not Selfishness Few things generate as much discomfort in my clients as the subject of limits. The word itself has been absorbed so thoroughly into therapeutic language that it has lost much of its...
by Susie Rome | May 2, 2026 | Adolescent Therapy, Article, Depression and Anxiety
Social Anxiety in Teenagers: When Shyness Becomes Something That Needs Support Most teenagers feel some degree of social anxiety. The developmental task of adolescence is fundamentally social: forming an identity, finding belonging, navigating the complex currency of...
by Susie Rome | Apr 18, 2026 | Article, Depression and Anxiety, Family Therapy
Parenting Through Your Own Anxiety: How to Stay Present When You Are Struggling Too Anxious parents often produce anxious children, not out of negligence or bad intent, but because children are exquisitely sensitive to the emotional climate of the adults they depend...
by Susie Rome | Apr 11, 2026 | Article, Couples Therapy, Relationships
Intimacy After Loss of Trust: How Couples Rebuild Connection Following Betrayal Trust, once broken in a relationship, does not simply repair itself with time. Time alone tends to produce one of two outcomes: a kind of numbness in which both partners go through the...
