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...
by Susie Rome | Apr 4, 2026 | Article, Depression and Anxiety
Self-Worth Without the Conditions: Learning to Value Yourself Beyond Achievement In communities where achievement is a primary language of value, a particular kind of suffering is very common and very rarely named. It is the suffering of people who have done...
by Susie Rome | Mar 21, 2026 | Article, Family Therapy, Relationships
Blended Families and the Work of Building Something New Together Blended families are among the most complex family systems there are, and yet they are often formed with the expectation that love and goodwill alone will smooth the transition. The couple has found each...
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...
