About Susan
Dr. Susan (Sue) Futeral is a clinician based in Maryland with 33 years of professional experience. She holds an MD and is licensed as an LCSW-C.
Her practice focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and a wide range of other concerns. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about thoughts and feelings. Sessions aim to be practical and clear.
She encourages small, achievable steps so progress feels manageable.
How Susan works
Dr. Futeral uses approaches that match each person's needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. She draws on methods that help people understand patterns in relationships, change unhelpful thoughts or behaviors, and build coping skills after trauma.
Her work includes support for people dealing with grief, eating concerns, addictions, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem struggles. She also focuses on issues such as body image, first responder stress, immigration challenges, and post-traumatic stress. In sessions she combines goal-oriented techniques with attention to emotional connection and safety.
Conversations often include practical tools, short-term goals, and ways to handle daily stresses. Dr. Futeral aims to make therapy understandable and useful from the first visit.
Susan lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Susan works with
The areas below are the ones Susan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCSW-C |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 33 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-based therapy looks at patterns in how people connect and form bonds. Online sessions can use conversation and exercises to identify these patterns and practice new ways of relating, which helps with relationship and intimacy-related concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It uses concrete exercises and between-session practice that work well over video, phone, or text to reduce anxiety, depression, and compulsive behaviors.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt methods to a person’s situation. That collaborative process helps match tools to issues such as trauma, stress, or sleep problems.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues and practice interactive exercises. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging can provide brief check-ins, written reflections, or guidance between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and use therapeutic tools in everyday life.
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