Richard Heller
Compassionate CBT-focused counselor
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Richard
Richard Heller is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and related concerns. He offers straightforward, respectful care and focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions. His approach centers on listening to what matters most to each person and working together to find useful ways forward.
Clients can expect sessions that emphasize clear goals and small, achievable changes.
Background and approach
He uses CBT to identify patterns of thinking that contribute to distress and to try alternative ways of responding. He also draws on client-centered habits of listening and empathy to tailor work to each person’s needs. Richard brings 20 years of experience as a licensed clinician in Illinois.
He has helped people facing trauma, loss, life changes, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem issues, and workplace stress. He also addresses concerns such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, eating problems, and compassion fatigue. In practice he often combines solution-focused steps with broader exploration when needed.
That can mean setting short-term targets, then returning to deeper patterns with methods like Internal Family Systems when helpful. The result is practical support paired with attention to what matters in a person’s life. Sessions are offered in English and include video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Costs vary by location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
How Richard’s Approaches Work Online
Richard relies on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; this approach is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes. He also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers on listening and responding to each person’s experience so sessions reflect what matters most to them.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. He discusses goals and preferences with each person and then recommends methods to try together. That collaborative process helps tailor short-term steps while keeping longer-term aims in view.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and let people connect from home or another suitable space. The variety of formats also allows follow-up or brief check-ins between longer appointments, supporting continuity of care while maintaining flexibility.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
Next step
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