About Scott
Scott Heise is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 14 years of experience based in Illinois. He earned a master's degree in counseling psychology and has spent over a decade working in community mental health settings. Heise focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, addiction concerns, mood challenges, and problems with sleep and self-esteem.
He works in a straightforward, empathetic way and helps people set clear goals. Sessions are collaborative and practical.
Background and approach
He uses tools from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and skills-based approaches to tackle daily problems and long-standing difficulties. Scott often helps people facing trauma, grief, and the fallout from substance use. He also supports those coping with life transitions, career questions, ADHD, and relationship tensions tied to family of origin.
His additional interests include caregiver stress, chronic illness, attachment concerns, and issues that can follow disaster or violence. When it fits, he will incorporate values and spiritual perspectives at a client's request. He emphasizes a nonjudgmental space, where humor and direct conversation are part of the practice.
The aim is to leave each session with something practical to try. Clients can expect a mix of talking, skill practice, and goal planning. He explains ideas in plain language and helps people track small changes over time.
Scott’s background in community mental health informs a focus on solutions that work in everyday life.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, respect, and tailoring each session to what the person needs. It helps when someone wants a supportive space to talk through choices and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change patterns that feed anxiety, depression, or sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills that help with intense moods, anger, and impulse challenges.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with a person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as needed based on progress and feedback.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, while phone sessions can fit a shorter break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, homework support, or ongoing accountability between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent despite busy schedules or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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