Richard Heller, LCPC

Richard Heller is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 20 years of counseling experience. He helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, grief, depression, relationship concerns, and life changes. He also supports work on parenting, career questions, ADHD, and caregiver stress.

Richard favors Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a core method and pairs it with client-centered work and solution-focused steps. In sessions he focuses on practical skills and clearer thinking. He helps people spot patterns that fuel anger or anxiety and then tests small changes to see what works.

Before becoming a counselor he spent many years in pastoral ministry and has over two decades serving as an on-call chaplain. That background shaped his comfort with grief, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and caregiver stress. He brings that experience to sessions when people are facing loss or big life transitions.

Richard uses straightforward conversation, thought-and-behavior tools, and short-term problem solving. He also draws on Internal Family Systems ideas to help people understand parts of themselves that drive unhelpful reactions. Sessions tend to be practical and focused on what someone can try between meetings.

People choose him when they want a calm, experience-based approach to getting a handle on anger, rebuilding strained relationships, or moving past depression and grief. To start he asks about current concerns, what has been tried, and simple goals for change.

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