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...