About Susanna
Susanna Armstrong, MD, LCPC, helps people who are dealing with stress and anxiety, addiction issues, low self-esteem, mood shifts, and trouble sleeping. She offers straightforward support for coping with life changes, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, and other overlapping difficulties such as bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and substance or process addictions. She uses a blend of approaches and keeps sessions practical.
Conversations focus on clear goals, learning coping skills, and building insight into patterns that get in the way.
Background and approach
She often combines talking therapies with attention to movement, nutrition, and body-centered strategies when those things fit a person's goals. With 14 years of experience and a background in addiction work, she has worked with people facing depression, post-traumatic stress, seasonal mood changes, self-harm behaviors, and co-occurring conditions. That background guides how she notices connections between substance use, mood, and coping habits.
Sessions are intended to be collaborative. She works alongside people to set realistic steps, try tools like cognitive restructuring and mindfulness, and adjust the plan as needed. Motivational interviewing is used when people are making changes around substances or habits.
Her practice is based in Maryland and sessions are offered in English. She sees young adult issues among her focus areas and brings lived experience from years in addiction treatment to conversations about recovery and relapse prevention.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and working at the client’s pace to build trust and clarify goals. It helps when someone needs someone who will follow their lead and focus on what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It provides clear tools for managing anxiety, sleep problems, and mood changes by testing unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. It can be helpful for stress, anxiety, and managing cravings or urges related to addictions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more accessible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for in-depth work, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and chat or messaging offer brief check-ins or ongoing written support. These options aim to make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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