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- Grief and shame work
- Trauma-informed care
- Adolescent to adult
About Blanche
Blanche Sumner, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Montana, has nine years of clinical experience. She works predominantly with Indigenous people and with adolescents through transitional-age adults. Her practice addresses grief, shame, LGBTQIA2S+ related concerns, trauma, and a range of other issues clients bring to sessions.
Sumner emphasizes awareness of a person's internal world as a step toward regaining control. She frames therapy around mutual respect and supports clear treatment goals. She also describes herself as a supporter of clients' progress and recovery efforts.
In sessions she talks through feelings and patterns that keep clients stuck. She offers practical ways to notice thoughts, feelings, and triggers so people can respond differently. This can include looking at relationships, identity-related stress, and reactions to loss or past harm.
Her work often focuses on coping skills for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns. She also addresses substance use, eating and body-image issues, and anger. For people dealing with relationship or intimacy-related struggles she helps clarify communication and boundaries.
Sumner has experience with attachment and abandonment issues, blended family challenges, and effects of disaster or violence. She lists a broad range of presenting concerns, including dissociation, DMDD, bipolar and depressive symptoms, and compassion fatigue. Her approach is practical and goal-oriented, aiming to help people notice internal experience and make changes that fit their lives.
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How her approaches translate to online work
Blanche describes using evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on noticing thoughts and feelings and building practical coping skills. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches concrete tools for managing anxiety, stress, and mood swings. This helps with day-to-day symptoms and provides short-term strategies for emotional regulation.Another common method focuses on trauma-informed care, which involves identifying how past harm affects current functioning and developing safer ways to respond. That approach is useful for people dealing with grief, shame, identity-related harm, and reactions to violence or loss.
Finding the right way to work together is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Clients and the therapist adjust methods over time based on what helps most.
Confirm the therapist's available session formats before booking, since the biography does not list specific options. Online work can make scheduling easier and reduce travel time. It can also allow shorter check-ins on busy days, let someone choose a camera-off option when preferred, and help fit sessions around school or work commitments.
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Experience
9+ years
Listed in
Montana
Languages
English
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Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address?
She works with grief, trauma, shame, LGBT issues, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, and related areas listed in her profile.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She emphasizes awareness of internal experience, mutual respect, and practical steps to regain control and reach treatment goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has nine years of professional experience as a counselor.
What credential does she hold and where is she licensed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) licensed in Montana.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or work internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not specify session formats; confirm current session options with the practice before scheduling.
How does costing work for sessions?
Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule the first session after matching.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, call 911, or call or text 988.