About Scott
Scott Herman is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Illinois. He has three years of professional experience supporting people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, and depression. He communicates with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Scott aims to make the first steps easier for people who are trying therapy for the first time or returning after a break. He focuses on conversations that are practical and specific. Scott works with clients to identify what feels most urgent and builds a simple plan together.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear goals, everyday coping skills, and ways to reduce overwhelming thoughts and feelings. Scott adapts his style to each person's needs. He listens first, then suggests small changes that can fit into a person's daily life.
He also helps people handle family strain, relationship concerns, parenting stress, and workplace pressures when these are causing distress. He also supports people facing grief, trauma or abuse, anger, challenges with intimacy, and life transitions. Scott works with those managing attention differences such as ADHD and with people affected by obsessive or phobic worries.
He offers care in English and Spanish. Scott uses a collaborative approach to shape sessions and treatment plans. He encourages questions, checks progress often, and adjusts strategies based on what is or isn't working.
The goal is to help people build tools they can use outside of sessions.
Approaches that fit life online and in-session
Scott uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and practical change. One common approach emphasizes identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts, then learning new ways to respond to anxious or low mood. This helps people notice patterns and try different thinking or behavior in daily life. Another approach concentrates on building small, manageable coping skills - such as breathing strategies, activity scheduling, and stepwise exposure to feared situations - to reduce avoidance and increase confidence.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Scott will work with each person to understand their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they pick strategies that fit the person’s day-to-day reality and adjust them over time based on progress and feedback.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions or fit support into busy schedules. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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