About Susan
Susan "Jill" Hedges is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, LPCC, working from Kentucky. She has 16 years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, grief, trauma, depression, or life changes. Jill focuses on practical steps and hands-on work that connect thoughts, feelings, and the body.
Her approach is straightforward and warm. She blends somatic awareness with talk-based tools so people can notice how stress shows up in their bodies.
Background and approach
She also uses methods that help people name feelings, shift unhelpful thoughts, and try small experiments between sessions. Jill often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take action even when emotions are hard. She draws on attachment ideas to improve how people relate to others and to themselves.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used when patterns of thought and behavior need clear strategies to change. Clients can expect a respectful, person-centered space where the therapist listens more than lectures. Sessions include verbal reflection and exercises that may involve body awareness, breathing, or small tasks to practice at home.
The emphasis is on using each person’s strengths to find workable solutions. Jill has worked with a wide range of concerns including ADHD, adoption and foster care issues, caregiving stress, and post-traumatic stress. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients.
Practical tools, steady support, and collaboration guide her work with each person.
How Jill’s Approaches Work Online
Somatic work helps people notice how stress and emotion show up in the body through breath, posture, and movement. In online sessions this often means guided attention to physical sensation and simple exercises you can try during the call to reduce tension. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking action in that direction despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, life transitions, and when people want practical steps tied to their values. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and how those patterns affect current functioning. It helps people understand relational habits and build more supported ways of relating to others and to themselves. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Jill will work with each person to try methods that fit their needs and goals. If something doesn’t fit, she will adjust the plan so the work feels useful and manageable. Online therapy offers flexibility and access to consistent care. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and body-based exercises, while phone, live chat, and text messaging give options for shorter check-ins or when schedules are tight. These formats make it easier to keep therapy part of everyday life and practice new skills between sessions.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Hearing impaired
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English