About Susan
Dr. Susan (Sue) Futeral is a Maryland clinician with 33 years of professional experience. She holds an MD and is licensed as an LCSW-C.
Sue focuses on anxiety and stress along with related concerns such as trauma, relationship problems, eating issues, and depression. Her approach is straightforward and conversational. She creates space for people to say what they are feeling without judgment.
Sessions aim to be practical and doable for a busy life.
Background and approach
In therapy she uses methods that help clients notice patterns and try different responses. She works with thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Mindfulness and solution-focused ideas are often woven into sessions to build small, steady change.
Sue also draws on attachment-focused approaches to look at how early relationships shape current struggles. Hypnotherapy may be considered when it fits a person’s goals and comfort level. She explains options and helps clients choose what feels right.
People come for help with many challenges, including sleep difficulties, grief, anger, self-esteem, career stress, addiction-related behaviors, and ADHD. The work is collaborative: she listens, offers practical techniques, and adjusts the plan as needed to match each person’s situation.
Approaches you can use online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and connections. Online sessions can help identify these patterns and practice new ways of relating to others in daily life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and obsessive patterns because it teaches clear skills to try between sessions.
Mindfulness techniques teach simple ways to notice the body and mind without getting swept up in worry. These skills can reduce stress and improve focus, and they translate well to short practices between video or phone meetings.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will discuss options, explain how different methods work, and tailor the plan to the client’s goals and preferences. Clients try techniques and give feedback so the work can be adjusted over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and interactive tools. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing accountability between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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