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...
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...
