About Chad
Chad Scott is a licensed professional clinical counselor in Minnesota with more than 20 years of experience. He focuses on stress, anxiety, self-esteem, career concerns, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes. Chad approaches sessions with straightforward language and practical steps to help people feel more capable in daily life.
Chad believes clients know their stories best and builds on existing strengths. He encourages small, doable changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to make difficult problems easier to manage, one step at a time. He has a Ph.D. in counseling and has taught psychology at Bemidji State University. That background informs a clear, research-aware style while keeping conversation accessible and direct.
Outside of therapy, Chad writes and contributes to local newspapers about mental health. He is also a best-selling Amazon author and enjoys travel, aviation, SCUBA diving, hiking, and golf. Chad works with a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety, including mood disorders, seasonal affective disorder, social anxiety and phobia, and life-purpose questions.
He also supports people facing career stress, fatherhood issues, first responder stress, chronic illness or pain, and the impacts of divorce and separation.
Approaches that guide online care
Chad uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and symptom relief. One common approach he employs emphasizes building coping skills for anxiety and stress through step-by-step practice. This method teaches tools people can use between sessions to manage worry, reduce avoidance, and improve daily functioning.Another approach centers on addressing mood regulation and motivation by identifying patterns that keep problems going and testing small behavioral changes. That kind of work helps with low mood, bipolar mood swings, and rebuilding routines that support better energy and focus.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Chad will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and day-to-day realities, then try methods that fit those needs. He adjusts the plan as progress is made and as life circumstances change.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and a more traditional session feel, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, travel, or a busy family life and let licensed professionals provide consistent care in different formats.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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