Susanna Armstrong, LCPC

Susanna Armstrong is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Maryland with 14 years of experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, anger, and related mood and attention concerns. She also supports those facing relationship strain, sleep problems, self-esteem issues, and life changes.

She uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. Sessions are practical and focused on skills people can use between meetings. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also uses Client-Centered methods to keep the work collaborative and grounded in the person’s goals.

Her background includes more than a decade working in addiction services, and she has notable experience supporting people with process addictions, drug and alcohol problems, and co-occurring mood disorders. That experience informs how she handles cravings, relapse risk, and concurrent issues like depression or PTSD.

Mindfulness practices are offered to help with stress, anger, and sleep disruption. Motivational Interviewing is used when people want to change substance use or other habitual behaviors but feel uncertain about how to start. Psychodynamic ideas may be brought in to look at repeated patterns that show up across relationships.

Susanna emphasizes straightforward goal setting and measurable steps. She asks clients to consider nutrition and movement as part of overall coping when those elements seem helpful. Sessions are conducted in English and based in Maryland.

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