About Blanche
Blanche Sumner is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Montana with nine years of clinical experience. She has focused on grief, shame, trauma, and LGBTQIA2S+ related concerns while helping people manage anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. Blanche centers on meeting people where they are and respecting their goals as they work toward change.
She uses straightforward conversation to help people notice their inner world so they can regain a sense of control.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort. Blanche also offers practical tools for coping with stress, cravings, mood shifts, and difficult memories. Blanche has worked across a wide range of issues including addiction, eating and body image concerns, anger, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people dealing with attachment wounds, abandonment, blended family challenges, and communication or commitment problems. Her approach aims to break down big problems into manageable steps. In therapy she emphasizes mutual respect and clear goals.
That often looks like setting small, concrete tasks between sessions and checking progress together. She encourages people to practice new skills in real life and to bring what works back to session for refinement. Blanche draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor support to each person’s needs.
Her style is direct but warm, with an emphasis on safety and steady progress. People who want practical strategies and steady encouragement tend to find this approach helpful.
Evidence-based tools and online therapy options
Blanche uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on helping people understand feelings and change behavior. One common approach she uses helps people track troubling thoughts and behaviors, then try new responses to reduce anxiety or low mood. This method is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday challenges.Another approach focuses on processing trauma and painful memories at a steady pace. It guides people to notice physical reactions and learn skills to manage intense emotions so memories become less overwhelming. This approach often helps with grief, trauma, and dissociation-related concerns.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Blanche will work with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, comfort level, and life demands. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods as progress is made so clients remain active partners in care.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are helpful when face-to-face conversation matters, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share updates between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this counselor works with
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- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English