About Scott
Scott Heise is a licensed mental health clinician with 14 years of experience in community mental health. He holds an IL LCPC and has worked extensively with adults facing anxiety, depression, addiction, mood concerns, and trauma. He offers a calm, direct style that aims to help people find practical ways forward.
He focuses on clear goals and simple tools you can use between sessions. Scott draws on client-centered methods so conversations stay focused on what matters to each person.
Background and approach
He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and DBT skills for managing intense emotions. Clients often bring concerns like stress, grief, sleep problems, anger, work issues, and challenges with self-esteem. He has experience supporting people coping with ADHD, bipolar disorder, and complex medical or caregiving stress.
He also works with those dealing with substance use and patterns rooted in family of origin problems. Scott can include discussions of faith when a client wants that perspective, and he aims to be respectful of each person’s beliefs. Sessions are practical and collaborative, with homework or skill practice when it will help progress.
He offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging options to fit different schedules and needs. People looking for structured, goal-focused support with room for personal values often find his approach a good fit.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a strong working relationship, helping people set their own goals and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches specific strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which work well in short exercises and between-session practice. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides concrete skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance, useful when managing intense feelings or impulsive actions.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as progress is made. That collaborative process helps match tools to what the person actually needs and prefers.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video sessions let you talk face-to-face, phone calls need less bandwidth, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging helps when a shorter written update is better. These options make it possible to keep continuity of care and practice skills between meetings, while fitting sessions into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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What this counselor works with
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- 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