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Susan "Jill" Hedges, LPCC

  • Experience16 years
  • LocationKentucky
  • Focus areasStress and Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, and Grief
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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About Susan

Susan "Jill" Hedges is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) practicing in Kentucky with 16 years of experience helping people navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, ADHD, and related life challenges. She approaches care from a humanistic, client-centered stance that emphasizes each person’s strengths and capacity for growth.

Background and approach

Her background includes training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Internal Family Systems, and she brings expressive and experiential techniques when they fit a client’s needs. Hedges frames therapy as a collaborative process focused on building a supportive therapeutic relationship and fostering practical skills as well as deeper personal meaning.

She works with concerns that range from everyday stress and life transitions to attachment-related issues, adoption and foster care matters, and post-traumatic stress. In sessions she balances evidence-informed strategies with empathic listening and creative methods that help clients explore feelings, improve coping, and pursue clearer life direction.

Approaches That Guide Online Care

Internal Family Systems focuses on understanding the different parts that make up a person’s internal experience and aims to help those parts communicate more harmoniously; this approach can be useful for addressing trauma responses, persistent inner conflict, and emotional patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches skills for noticing thoughts and feelings without getting entangled by them while identifying values and committed actions, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes how early relationships shape emotional needs and interpersonal patterns and supports building healthier connections and emotional regulation.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to explore goals, preferences, and symptoms and then combine elements from these methods to fit the individual’s situation rather than prescribing a single path. This helps tailor sessions to practical change as well as deeper understanding.

Online therapy offers flexible access to licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to schedule around work, caregiving, or mobility constraints. Those formats allow ongoing skill work, check-ins between sessions, and multiple ways to engage so therapy can adapt to different communication styles and life rhythms.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of difficulties does she address?
She works with a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, ADHD, family and parenting issues, self esteem, career questions, and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is humanistic and client-centered, combining empathic listening with evidence-informed interventions such as CBT and Internal Family Systems to tailor support to each person.
What is her clinical background?
She has 16 years of professional experience working with trauma, bereavement, anxiety, depression, ADHD, autism, and related concerns.
Where is she licensed and able to practice?
She holds the LPCC credential with licence KY LPCC 103474 and practices in Kentucky.
Does she work with clients outside the United States?
International clients are accepted and she provides services in English to eligible individuals regardless of country of origin.
What formats are available for sessions?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different preferences and needs.
How are fees and subscriptions handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What is the first step to begin therapy?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyTrauma and abuseGriefDepressionADHD

Also works with

Family conflictsParenting issuesSelf esteemCareer difficultiesCoping with life changesCoaching

Additional focus areas

Adoption and foster careAttachment issuesAutism and Asperger SyndromeBlended family issuesCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCoping with natural or human-caused disasterEmptinessForgivenessHearing impairedIntellectual disabilityLife purposeNarcissismPost-traumatic stress

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Jungian TherapyMindfulness TherapyNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapySomatic TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

16+ years

Licensed

Kentucky

Languages

English