by Susie Rome | May 9, 2026 | Article, Couples Therapy, Relationships
Codependency and the Cost of Disappearing: How to Show Up in Relationships Without Losing Yourself Codependency is one of those terms that gets used broadly and imprecisely, which means many people who actually live with it do not recognize themselves in the...
by Susie Rome | May 5, 2026 | Article, Relationships
Setting Boundaries Without Guilt: Why Limits Are an Act of Love, Not Selfishness Few things generate as much discomfort in my clients as the subject of limits. The word itself has been absorbed so thoroughly into therapeutic language that it has lost much of its...
by Susie Rome | May 2, 2026 | Adolescent Therapy, Article, Depression and Anxiety
Social Anxiety in Teenagers: When Shyness Becomes Something That Needs Support Most teenagers feel some degree of social anxiety. The developmental task of adolescence is fundamentally social: forming an identity, finding belonging, navigating the complex currency of...
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 | 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...
