About Richard
Richard Heller is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois. He brings two decades of counseling experience and a calm, person-focused approach to conversations about stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and ADHD. He centers sessions on what matters most to each person.
That often means practical strategies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy combined with listening that aims to make sense of feelings and patterns. Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented, with time spent on tools that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
Richard also draws on long experience in pastoral ministry and chaplaincy work. Those roles shaped his way of listening to loss, trauma, and life transitions. He uses that background to support people facing cancer, hospice and end-of-life concerns, caregiving strain, and aging-related stress.
People often seek his help for relationship worries, parenting strain, career questions, anger, and identity concerns such as guilt, shame, or emptiness. He supports those coping with bipolar symptoms, eating concerns, or compassion fatigue and helps clarify next steps when life changes feel overwhelming. Richard aims to create a respectful, sensitive space where practical steps and personal values meet.
He works collaboratively to set short-term goals, build coping skills, and track progress in ways that make sense for each person.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's priorities. The therapist follows the person's lead, helping them clarify values and goals while offering empathy and reflection. This approach often helps with grief, loneliness, relationship concerns, and life purpose issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses clear, practical exercises and short-term goals to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress and to build coping skills that can be used between sessions.
Finding the best approach is a shared process. The therapist will work together with the person to decide which techniques to try first, check how they are working, and adjust plans based on goals and preferences. That collaborative pacing helps make sure sessions stay focused and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and varied needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing expressions matters. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break from work. Live chat and text-based messaging give shorter, frequent check-ins and quick coaching between appointments. These options make it simpler to keep momentum while working on goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- 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
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