Anger Is Not the Enemy: Understanding What Your Anger Is Trying to Tell You

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,...

The Empty Nest: What Happens to Your Identity When the Children Leave Home

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...

Midlife and the Question You Are Finally Ready to Ask Yourself

by Susie Rome | May 16, 2026 | Article, Depression and Anxiety

Midlife and the Question You Are Finally Ready to Ask Yourself Midlife does not always arrive with a sports car and an affair, as the cultural caricature suggests. More often, it arrives as a quiet but insistent internal pressure. A question that surfaces in the...

Burnout Is Not a Badge of Honor: What Chronic Stress Is Costing High-Achieving Professionals

by Susie Rome | May 12, 2026 | Article, Depression and Anxiety

Burnout Is Not a Badge of Honor: What Chronic Stress Is Costing High-Achieving Professionals There is a particular kind of suffering that is almost invisible in high-achieving communities because it looks, from the outside, like success. The person who never stops...

Social Anxiety in Teenagers: When Shyness Becomes Something That Needs Support

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...

Parenting Through Your Own Anxiety: How to Stay Present When You Are Struggling Too

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...