Therapist profile
Blanche Sumner, LCPC
Montana
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - Anger and Trauma
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- CredentialsLCPC
- LicenseLCPC, Montana / BBH-LCPC-LIC-55464
- NPI1104342880
- Experience9 years
- LanguagesEnglish
- LocationMontana
About
- LGBTQIA2S+ concerns
- Grief and shame
- Stress and anxiety
About Blanche
Blanche Sumner is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Montana with nine years of clinical experience. She has worked largely with Indigenous people and with adolescents through transitional-age adults. Her practice includes grief, shame, LGBTQIA2S+ related concerns, trauma, and a broad range of other issues clients bring forward, including anger and stress.
She focuses on helping people notice their internal experience so they can make different choices. That often starts with identifying patterns of thought and feeling that keep someone stuck. Sessions are conversational and direct. Blanche prioritizes mutual respect and clear treatment goals.
Her work often addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, family and blended-family strains, and problems around communication and control. She also works with concerns such as addiction, eating and body-image struggles, depression, and bipolar mood challenges.
Blanche brings experience supporting people through grief, dissociation, abandonment and attachment difficulties, and responses to trauma or disaster. She helps people develop coping strategies for anxiety, stress, and compassion fatigue. Practical skills and moment-to-moment awareness are common parts of the work.
People who come for anger-related concerns can expect help recognizing triggers, noticing escalating signs, and practicing alternative responses. Blanche encourages collaborative planning so each person has clear next steps between sessions. The approach aims to be straightforward and useful for day-to-day life.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online care
Blanche describes her work as focused on awareness of internal experience and practical skill-building. Two evidence-based approaches that fit that description are cognitive-based techniques and trauma-informed care. Cognitive-based techniques help people notice patterns of thought that feed anger or anxiety and then try small, concrete experiments to shift those patterns. Trauma-informed care focuses on safety, pacing, and understanding how past events shape current reactions, which helps when anger ties back to older hurts or shame.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Blanche works collaboratively to decide whether to emphasize cognitive steps, trauma-aware pacing, or a mix of methods based on each person’s goals and preferences. She helps set clear short-term goals and practical homework so progress is visible between sessions.
Confirm the available session formats before booking, since the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - shorter check-ins around work breaks, not needing travel time, or choosing sessions that don’t require being on camera. Therapists generally adapt techniques so skills can be practiced and reinforced between appointments.
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Experience
9+ years
Listed in
Montana
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with grief, trauma, shame, LGBTQIA2S+ concerns, anger, anxiety, depression, addictions, and related relationship and family stresses.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses conversational, practical sessions that focus on noticing internal experience and learning skills to change unhelpful patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She has nine years of clinical experience working primarily with Indigenous people and with adolescents to transitional-age adults.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She holds the LCPC credential and practices in Montana.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as specific formats are not listed in the biography.
How does cost work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is unsafe, use the crisis numbers.