Susan "Jill" Hedges

Susan "Jill" Hedges is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) practicing in Kentucky. She brings 16 years of experience helping people cope with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, ADHD, and life changes. Her work emphasizes the client’s strengths and personal goals. Jill uses a human-centered, compassionate approach and believes people can grow and change.

She blends practical therapies to meet real problems. Jill draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns and build new skills. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help people accept difficult feelings while moving toward what matters to them.

Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused approaches inform how she supports relationships and emotional connection. Those methods can help when past hurts affect current relationships or when stronger bonds are needed. Jill also practices Client-Centered therapy, offering a respectful, nonjudgmental space for people to be heard.

Her additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, caregiver stress, intellectual disability, and post-traumatic stress. She works with concerns such as parenting strain, codependency, career stress, grief, and life purpose.

Jill favors clear, practical steps in sessions. She helps people build coping skills, develop routines, and try small experiments between meetings. The aim is steady progress toward more manageable days and clearer choices.

To begin, prospective clients follow the site process to match and schedule a first appointment. Jill accepts international clients and holds her Kentucky LPCC credential.

How Jill’s Approaches Guide Online Work

Jill uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. That work often involves setting small practice tasks between meetings and tracking what changes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is also part of her toolkit; ACT helps people accept difficult feelings while choosing actions that match their values. Attachment-Based Therapy is used when past relationships affect how someone connects today, focusing on improving emotional communication and safety in relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Jill treats therapy as a collaboration and will help decide which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences. She may try one method first and adjust based on what feels most helpful and practical.

The practical benefits of online therapy can include easier scheduling, fewer travel demands, and the ability to fit sessions into busy days. Online work can make it simpler to continue skill practice between sessions and to involve different communication styles when needed. Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm the specific options available when you book. The focus is on making therapy usable and relevant to everyday life rather than on any single delivery method.