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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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,...
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 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 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...
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...
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 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....
The power of our breath You know how we always tell kids to “relax and calm down”?? Well, I can guarantee you that the last thing a kid is going to do when you tell them to relax and calm down, is actually relax and calm down. And it’s not because they are being...
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...
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 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 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...
When Vacation Isn’t All Good: An Honest Post About Expectations and Reality By Joree Rose, LMFT I want to be honest with you about something. We’re sold a very particular image of what vacation is supposed to be — sun-drenched, restorative, full of...
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...
Stop Multitasking — It’s Making You Less Productive and More Stressed By Joree Rose, LMFT Multitasking feels productive. It feels like you’re getting more done, covering more ground, making better use of limited time. It’s practically a badge of...
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...
The Benefits of Giving — and Why It Might Be the Most Underrated Wellbeing Practice By Joree Rose, LMFT We talk a lot about self-care. About filling your own cup. About protecting your energy and learning to receive. All of that matters, and I mean it when I say it....
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 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 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 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: 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! 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 — 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 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: 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,...
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? 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...
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...
The Journey of Becoming You By Joree Rose, LMFT There’s a version of personal growth that gets talked about a lot — the kind that’s linear, progressive, and arrives at a destination. You do the work, you heal the wounds, you become your best self, and then...
Thanks-Giving, and Why It Matters All Year Long By Joree Rose, LMFT There’s something I love about having a day set aside specifically for gratitude. A cultural pause — however imperfect, however complicated its history — that invites people to stop and...
To Everything There is a Season: The Wisdom of Living With Change By Joree Rose, LMFT There is something that happens in autumn that I find quietly instructive. The trees don’t fight the change. They don’t hold desperately to their leaves, trying to...
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...
What’s the difference between an AI coach and therapy? In short: an AI coach gives you real-time, in-the-moment support for self-awareness, communication, and emotional skills, available 24/7. Therapy is licensed clinical care delivered by a trained professional...
Can AI actually help your relationship? Used well, yes. An AI couples coach will not replace the depth of sitting with a skilled therapist, but it can do something therapy cannot: it can be there in the exact moment your relationship needs support — in the...
Can an AI coach actually help with burnout and boundaries? In my experience as a therapist and mindfulness teacher, the honest answer is yes — a well-built AI coach can genuinely help, especially in the moments between sessions when you feel the overwhelm...
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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