Montanna Clendening, LPC

Montanna Clendening is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Idaho who supports individuals and families through significant life transitions and personal growth. With a focus on family dynamics and communication, she helps clients untangle relationship patterns, strengthen communication skills, and build greater self-esteem while navigating changes. Her practice also concentrates on grief, attachment challenges, and caregiver stress, offering a compassionate, strength-based approach to emotional healing.

Montanna has experience working with young adults and blended families, addressing issues such as guilt, shame, impulsivity, and the search for life purpose. She emphasizes practical strategies and collaborative work to help clients develop resilience, improve interpersonal functioning, and cultivate deeper self-understanding. Her approach draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor interventions that meet each person where they are.

As an LPC - a credential that denotes professional training and licensure to provide counseling services - Montanna aims to create a supportive environment where clients can explore difficult experiences, process loss, and move toward more fulfilling relationships and daily functioning. Her work centers on empowering clients to identify strengths, learn new coping skills, and pursue meaningful change over time.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care

Montanna utilizes evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical skills and emotional processing. She emphasizes skills-based interventions that teach communication, problem solving, and coping strategies to help clients manage relationship tensions, caregiver stress, and changing life roles. These techniques aim to provide clear tools clients can use in daily life to improve interactions and reduce distress.

She also incorporates attachment-informed and grief-sensitive approaches that help clients explore relationship patterns, process loss, and rebuild connection with themselves and others. These methods support work on self-esteem, guilt and shame, and the emotional consequences of life transitions.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Montanna works with clients to identify their goals, preferences, and challenges, and then tailors therapeutic work to fit their needs. Together they evaluate what techniques feel most helpful and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers flexible options including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and access regular support from a licensed professional without geographic constraints.