About Susan
Dr. Susan (Sue) Futeral is a licensed clinician in Maryland with 33 years of practice across medical and social work settings. She combines medical knowledge (MD) with social work expertise (LCSW-C) to help people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and related concerns.
She aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable and straightforward for people who are worried or uncertain. She focuses on common problems such as relationship strain, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, and addictions.
Background and approach
Phobias and obsessive or compulsive behavior are also areas she addresses. Her work includes issues tied to gender and sexual identity, first responder and veteran stresses, and major life changes. In sessions she fosters a calm, open space where people can speak without feeling judged.
Conversations are practical and directed toward small, usable steps. She helps people learn new ways to cope, change unhelpful patterns, and rebuild confidence over time. Her approach draws on methods like cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-based thinking, mindfulness, solution-focused steps, and hypnotherapy when appropriate.
These methods are used to address symptoms, habits, and emotional responses in day-to-day life. Sessions are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Therapy uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling follows a short matching questionnaire and the Start Therapy flow.
Approaches that fit online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online sessions can use this approach to help people notice relationship patterns and practice different ways of connecting and setting boundaries. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and testing small changes. It’s often used for anxiety, phobias, depression, and sleep or eating concerns and works well in video or phone sessions where homework and skill practice are reviewed together.Finding the right approach is a collaborative part of treatment. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try methods that seem promising, and adjust the plan over time. That ensures the work fits the issue at hand and the person’s comfort with different techniques.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone calls can fit a shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are helpful for brief updates, timely coaching, and people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules.
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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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