Susan "Jill" Hedges, LPCC

Susan "Jill" Hedges is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) practicing in Kentucky. She brings 16 years of experience helping people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, ADHD, and life transitions. Her work is focused on practical steps people can use day to day.

Jill uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside person-centered care to help clients notice unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. She favors straightforward strategies that people can try between sessions. Her background also includes approaches that attend to relationships and emotional experience.

She prefers a collaborative style. Sessions often begin by identifying a few immediate goals. From there Jill and the client try small changes and track what helps. She leans on clients' strengths and past successes to build new coping skills.

Jill has long worked with people affected by adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, autism and caregiving stress. She also supports those processing loss, burnout, identity questions, and the aftermath of abuse or disaster. Practical problem solving and clearer emotional understanding are common focuses.

Her approach is calm and accepting. Jill aims to make the therapy space simple and steady so clients can speak openly and try new ways of coping. She will work with each person to find what fits their life and goals.

How Jill Uses Therapy Approaches Online

Jill often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts that get in the way and try concrete behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and learning new coping habits.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept difficult feelings while clarifying values and taking committed steps toward what matters. ACT can support people facing grief, stress, and feelings of emptiness.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jill will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then together they decide which methods to try. That process is collaborative and may shift over time as needs change.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between meetings. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people use the format that fits their daily life.