by Susie Rome | Mar 14, 2026 | Addiction Counseling, Article
Addiction Is Not a Character Flaw: Understanding the Roots of Compulsive Behavior If you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, one of the most damaging things the culture surrounding that struggle will tell you is that it is a failure of willpower or moral...
by Susie Rome | Mar 7, 2026 | Article, Depression and Anxiety
Grief Without a Timeline: How Therapy Helps When Loss Refuses to Follow the Rules Grief does not move in the tidy, sequential stages that our cultural shorthand suggests it should. It loops. It resurfaces without warning, sometimes years after a loss, triggered by...
by Susie Rome | Feb 21, 2026 | Adolescent Therapy, Article
What Teenagers Need Most: A Therapist’s Perspective on Adolescent Mental Health in Calabasas Adolescence is one of the most demanding developmental passages a human being moves through. In the span of a few years, a young person is simultaneously navigating the...
by Susie Rome | Feb 14, 2026 | Article, Couples Therapy, Relationships
Love Is a Practice: Building a Relationship That Grows Stronger Over Time We absorb a particular story about love from the culture we grow up in: that it is primarily a feeling, something that either exists or does not, something that arrives unbidden and, if we are...
by Susie Rome | Feb 7, 2026 | Article, Relationships, Trauma Therapy
Attachment and Trauma: How Early Wounds Shape the Way We Love as Adults There is a question that comes up, directly or indirectly, in nearly every therapy I conduct: why do I keep repeating the same patterns in my closest relationships? Why do I find myself attracted...
