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,...
