About Blanche
Blanche Sumner is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Montana with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, grief, trauma, mood concerns, and issues tied to identity and relationships. Blanche aims to create a respectful, steady presence so people can start making small changes that matter.
She encourages awareness of how thoughts and feelings show up in day-to-day life. That awareness is a first step toward feeling more in control.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to match each person's needs and comfort level. Blanche emphasizes practical steps alongside emotional processing. Her work addresses a wide range of concerns including stress, depression, bipolar mood challenges, addictions, eating and body image struggles, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people facing attachment and abandonment wounds, communication and commitment struggles, and the fallout from separation or domestic violence. Blanche takes a straightforward, supportive approach. She aims to meet clients where they are rather than push a single method.
She helps people set clear goals, try out manageable strategies, and adjust plans based on what works in real life. People meet her for both short-term problem work and longer-term healing. Her style blends active listening with practical suggestions.
The goal is not only to talk through difficulties but also to build habits and choices that improve everyday functioning.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Evidence-based techniques Blanche uses focus on clear, practical tools people can use day to day. One approach emphasizes building awareness of thoughts and feelings and then testing small behavior changes to reduce distress; it helps with anxiety, mood swings, and stress-related problems. Another approach centers on processing traumatic memories and their effects on current life by gradually addressing difficult memories while building coping skills; this supports recovery from trauma, abuse, and shame.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Blanche will discuss options, listen to priorities, and adjust methods as treatment proceeds. Together the therapist and client set goals, try strategies, and shift plans based on what helps most in real life.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let you work face to face when a fuller conversation is needed. Phone sessions can fit shorter check-ins or times with lower bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or communicate when writing feels better. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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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
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