About Susanna
Susanna Armstrong, MD, LCPC, helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, and self-esteem struggles. She works with clients who are dealing with life changes, relationship strain, sleep problems, anger, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and trauma. Her style is straightforward and practical, aiming to find workable steps that fit a person's daily life.
She draws on body-focused somatic techniques alongside talk-based methods. That means sessions may include attention to physical sensations and movement as well as verbal processing.
Background and approach
Susanna also uses Client-Centered approaches to follow a person's pace, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help change unhelpful thoughts and habits. With 14 years in the field and a long history in addiction work, she often helps people untangle co-occurring issues. This includes mood disorders, drug and alcohol addiction, process addictions like gambling or problematic sexual behavior, and post-traumatic stress.
She pays attention to how these concerns interact rather than treating them in isolation. Susanna takes an integrative view that may bring in lifestyle elements such as nutrition and movement when helpful. Sessions focus on building coping skills, reducing symptoms that get in the way, and discovering personal strengths.
The aim is to create achievable, concrete steps clients can use between visits. She practices in Maryland and conducts sessions in English. Susanna's professional credentials are MD and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, license number LC4001.
People who want to begin are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session that fits their timing.
How somatic and talk work translate to online care
Somatic work brings attention to body sensations, posture and breathing to help people notice how stress shows up physically. In an online setting this can mean guided breath work, body scans, and noticing physical responses while talking through situations. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following a person's pace so sessions concentrate on what matters most to the client right now. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify patterns of thought and behavior and replace them with concrete alternatives to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with clients to try methods that fit their needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative work may mix somatic techniques with CBT or a client-centered pace depending on how someone responds.
Online sessions via video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging offer flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. Video allows real-time visual cues for somatic awareness, while phone or text can feel easier for short check-ins or focused skill practice. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, school and family life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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