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,...
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...
