Women’s Therapy | Couples Counseling | Intensive Therapy

Therapy for Women & Couples in California | Joree Rose, LMFT Something Needs to Change — and You Already Know It Joree Rose, LMFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Danville, CA specializing in individual therapy for women and couples counseling. She...

Exploring MDMA in Couples Therapy: Benefits, Risks, and the Latest Research

MDMA-Assisted Couples Counseling: Promise, Cautions, and Current Evidence By Dr. John Schinnerer Many couples go in to counseling with high hopes of restoring their relationship, only to find themselves stuck in the same patterns of anger, disagreements and...

The Best Online Courses to Master Anxiety in 2025

The Best Online Courses To Alleviate Anxiety In 2025 Anxiety is a huge hurdle to a happy, thriving life – painful, annoying, exhausting, even embarrassing. It keeps you from being social, from working to your potential and from enjoying life. If only you could...

Love Letter from an Anxiously Attached Partner

To my love: I’ve started and stopped writing this letter more times than I can count. Every time I try to find the words, I get scared—scared of saying too much, of being too much. But silence has only ever made the ache louder, and I don’t want to keep hiding what’s...

Love Letter From An Avoidant Attachment Style To His Partner…

A Love Letter from an Avoidantly Attached Man: Breaking Through the Barriers of Insecure Attachment By Dr. John Schinnerer | LoveIsntEnough.net — My Dearest Love, There are things I should have said long ago—words that remained unspoken, buried in the quiet...

Master Your Mindset: The Hidden Key to Transforming Relationships

Your Mindset Is Running the Show — Here’s How to Take the Wheel Most of us don’t realize how much our mindset is quietly directing everything — our relationships, our stress levels, how we respond when things get hard, and whether we believe change is...

Top 10 Podcasts Every Woman Over 30 Should Be Listening To

Top 10 Podcasts for Mastering Love & Relationship in 2025 (Without Losing Your Cool!) Let’s be honest: love is one of the most beautiful and rewarding parts of being human—and also one of the most challenging. It can be joyful, deeply fulfilling, confusing,...

How to Live Without Regret: What The Elderly Wish They’d Learned Sooner

Wise Elders Share Their Biggest Regrets — Every One Should Hear These (To Avoid Them Later In Life) I’m a huge fan of tapping into our elders for wisdom. I want to be able to look back on my life upon my deathbed with no regrets. So I asked my male clients over 50...

What a Shrink Does When Depressed: Tools from a Psychologist Who’s Mastered It

What A Shrink Does When Feeling Depressed? Top Tips From A Psychologist Who’s Dealt With It Dr. John Schinnerer, Guide To Self Depression is the world’s worst houseguest. It shows up uninvited, eats all your emotional snacks, drains your energy, steals what you once...

People-Pleasing: Why Saying “Yes” When You Mean “No” Is Hurting Your Relationship

People-Pleasing Is Killing Your Sex Life (And Your Relationship). Here’s How to Stop By Dr. John Schinnerer Let’s get real for a second: many of us—especially the chronic overachievers and conflict-avoiders—suck at setting boundaries. We say “yes” when we mean “no...

The One Simple Shift That Can Deepen Your Relationship Connection

Bids for Connection: The Small Moments That Make or Break a Relationship By Joree Rose, LMFT There’s a concept in couples therapy that sounds almost too simple to matter — and yet in my experience working with couples, it’s one of the most revealing things...

Jealousy: A Tender Signal, Not a Death Sentence

Understanding Your Partner’s Jealousy — and What to Do With It By Joree Rose, LMFT Jealousy is one of those emotions that almost nobody wants to admit they’re feeling — and almost everybody has felt at some point in a relationship. It’s uncomfortable...
Mental and Emotional Self-Care

Mental and Emotional Self-Care

Mental and Emotional Self-care It’s so easy in our modern life to glorify busyness. And it’s legit. We all have stuff to do. Important stuff to do. The problem is when we don’t have balance and that lack of balance gets in the way of our mental and emotional health....
I’m Being Aware – Now What??

I’m Being Aware – Now What??

I’m Being Aware — Now What? By Joree Rose, LMFT One of the most common things I hear from people who are new to mindfulness goes something like this: “Okay, I’m noticing my thoughts. I’m aware of my feelings. I can see the pattern. But then...
My First Heart-Opener

My First Heart-Opener

The first time I did a heart-opener, I burst into tears. I was at Esalen, which is a spiritual retreat center in Big Sur, and it literally is, hands-down, my most favorite place on earth. Nestled into an expansive property overlooking picturesque cliffs of the Pacific...
7 Tips to Being a More Patient Mom

7 Tips to Being a More Patient Mom

7 Tips for Being a More Patient Mom (From a Therapist Who Knows It’s Hard) By Joree Rose, LMFT Patience with our children is one of those things most of us deeply want and regularly struggle with. We know what kind of parent we want to be — present, calm,...
How’s About Some Self-Kindness, eh?

How’s About Some Self-Kindness, eh?

How’s about some kindness, eh? So, I guess we all share the same problem – that is the loud voice inside your head that tells you mean things, has a harsh tone of voice, criticizes you and treats you worse than your own worst enemy. Can you relate? Do you know what...
Do You Ever Feel Stuck In Your Life?

Do You Ever Feel Stuck In Your Life?

Do You Ever Feel Stuck in Your Life? By Joree Rose, LMFT There’s a particular kind of discomfort that’s hard to name and harder to explain to people who aren’t feeling it. It’s not crisis. Nothing is dramatically wrong. You’re functioning...

How Do I Let My Sh*t Go??

How Do I Let My Sh*t Go? By Joree Rose, LMFT If you’ve ever said those words — or at least thought them — you’re not alone. Letting go is one of the most universally wanted and universally difficult things we ask of ourselves. We know we should let go of...

Gratitude is More Than Just A Feel-Good Sort of Thing

Gratitude is More Than Just a Feel-Good Sort of Thing By Joree Rose, LMFT Gratitude has gotten a bit of a reputation as soft self-help advice — the kind of thing well-meaning people suggest when they don’t know what else to say. Count your blessings. Look on the...

Be Your Own Best Friend: The Art of Self-Compassion

Be Your Own Best Friend: The Practice of Self-Compassion By Joree Rose, LMFT Think about how you talk to your best friend when she’s struggling. When she makes a mistake, falls short of a goal, or is going through something hard — what do you say to her? How do...

You Need An Attitude…An Attitude of Gratitude!

You Need an Attitude of Gratitude — Here’s How to Actually Build One By Joree Rose, LMFT Gratitude gets a lot of airtime. Gratitude journals, gratitude lists, gratitude apps — it’s everywhere. And yet for something so widely recommended, it’s...

How To Build a Meditation Practice That Sticks

How to Build a Meditation Practice That Actually Sticks By Joree Rose, LMFT I’ve been teaching mindfulness and meditation for years, and the question I hear most often isn’t about technique. It’s some version of: I know I should meditate, but I can...

The Light in the Dark

The Light in the Dark: Finding Your Way Through Difficult Seasons By Joree Rose, LMFT There are seasons in life that are simply dark. Not metaphorically dark — genuinely, persistently, disorienting dark. Seasons where the familiar markers of how you usually navigate...

Just Be There…It’s Almost Enough

Just Be There…it’s almost enough!  Wouldn’t it be so much easier if there was a direct go-to manual for how to handle every kind of parenting situation?? I mean, I suppose you can do a Google search, and you’ll instantly reveal lots of solutions to your present issue,...

The Most Constant Thing is…Change!

The Most Constant Thing is Change — and How to Make Peace With It By Joree Rose, LMFT We know, intellectually, that change is constant. The seasons change, children grow, relationships evolve, careers shift, the body ages. Nothing stays the same — not for long, and...
How Mindfulness Helps You Manage Difficult Emotions

How Mindfulness Helps You Manage Difficult Emotions

How Mindfulness Helps You Manage Difficult Emotions By Joree Rose, LMFT Difficult emotions are not the problem. The way we relate to them usually is. Most of us learned early on that certain emotions weren’t welcome — that anger was dangerous, sadness was...

Don’t Change That Radio Station!

Don’t Change That Radio Station: Working With Your Inner Emotional Landscape By Joree Rose, LMFT Imagine your emotional life as a radio. Dozens of stations are available at any given moment — anxiety, contentment, irritability, warmth, grief, joy, restlessness,...

Parenting Doesn’t Come With a Rule Book

Raise Your Hand if You Wish Parenting Came With a Rule Book By Joree Rose, LMFT If parenting came with a rule book, I’m pretty sure every parent I’ve ever worked with — and I include myself in this — would have read the entire thing cover to cover before...

How Can I Manage My Stress?

How Can I Manage My Stress? Practical Tools That Actually Work By Joree Rose, LMFT Stress is one of those things almost everyone is experiencing and almost no one feels like they’re managing well. We know it’s affecting our health, our relationships, our...

Your Presence Is Your Present

Give Your Presence as Your Present: The Most Meaningful Gift You Can Offer By Joree Rose, LMFT In a season that tends to center on giving and receiving, I want to make a case for the gift that costs nothing and means more than almost anything else you could offer the...

How Can I Get My Husband to Consider Couples Counseling?

How to Get Your Husband to Consider Couples Therapy (Without Pushing Him Away) Use Attachment Theory To Make Him Feel Safe Enough To Explore The Possibility You Want to Feel Closer. He Just Wants to Avoid a Fight. If you’ve brought up couples therapy to your...

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