About Sacra
Sacra Durandisse is a licensed clinician with an MD, LCPC, and LMHC and 27 years of professional experience. She practices in Maryland and offers supportive, practical therapy for people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and self-esteem struggles. She approaches each person with respect and an emphasis on their strengths and choices.
She believes clients are the experts on their own stories. Sessions focus on clear goals and real skills that can be used between meetings.
How Sacra works
The work is collaborative - she listens, reflects what she hears, and helps build a plan that fits daily life. Over her career she has helped people handle big life changes, process past abuse, and rebuild motivation and confidence. She also supports people dealing with communication problems, control issues, workplace stress, and financial worries.
Practical coping tools and steady encouragement are common parts of her approach. Sacra brings calm, direct guidance and a focus on small, achievable steps. She talks through how habits, thoughts, and relationships affect mood and behavior.
The aim is to strengthen skills for lasting change while honoring each person’s pace. Sessions are offered in English and Sacra welcomes international clients. She works through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can find the format that fits their life.
What Sacra works with
The areas below are the ones Sacra selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques often focus on teaching concrete skills and changing unhelpful patterns. One common approach emphasizes building coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breath work, grounding exercises, and step-by-step behavioral experiments to reduce avoidance. This helps people regain control over daily routines and reduce overwhelm.Another useful approach targets processing trauma and its aftereffects through paced, supportive conversations and skills to manage strong feelings. That work aims to reduce the hold of past events on current mood and relationships and to increase emotional stability and safety in everyday life.
Choosing the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods that match those needs. This is a collaborative process and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quicker check-ins, and messaging supports short updates between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family, or travel schedules while keeping care consistent and accessible.
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