About Blanche
Blanche Sumner is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Montana with nine years of clinical experience. She has spent much of her career helping people process grief, shame, and trauma while addressing concerns related to sexual orientation and gender diversity. Blanche focuses on clear, practical steps that help people feel more in control of their inner world.
She centers sessions on respect and meeting people where they are emotionally.
How Blanche works
Blanche encourages awareness of thoughts, feelings, and body responses so clients can make choices that match their values. She also offers support for anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, stress, and substance-related issues. Her work often involves talking through relationship and intimacy-related challenges, communication problems, attachment and abandonment issues, and struggles with body image or eating.
Blanche also supports people navigating major life changes, separation, and the aftermath of violence or disaster. She addresses anger, dissociation, and mood regulation concerns such as Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder when these come up in sessions. Blanche favors an evidence-based approach and helps people build skills for coping, emotional regulation, and healthier patterns of relating.
She balances practical strategies with compassionate encouragement as clients try new ways of coping. Her style is collaborative and straightforward, with an emphasis on small steps that lead to steadier progress. Blanche conducts sessions in English and works with people across a range of ages and backgrounds.
Her practice aims to make therapy understandable and usable, especially for someone feeling overwhelmed and unsure where to begin.
What Blanche works with
The areas below are the ones Blanche selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Montana |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online care
Blanche uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on building awareness and practical skills. One approach emphasizes tracking thoughts, feelings, and bodily reactions to help people notice patterns and try new responses; this is useful for anxiety, depression, and trauma-related symptoms. Another approach centers on skills for emotional regulation and coping - teaching concrete tools to manage strong emotions, reduce reactivity, and handle stress or mood swings.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Blanche will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they adjust methods and try exercises that fit the person’s pace and needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is helpful for face-to-face dialogue and practicing skills in real time, while phone can work when bandwidth is lower or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow ongoing support and brief exchanges between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work on goals from wherever the client happens to be.
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