About Karen
Karen Medlock is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 27 years of practice. She holds Texas and Louisiana LCSW credentials and brings long experience supporting people through hard transitions. Her work is direct and straightforward, and she meets clients where they are in life.
She uses a holistic outlook shaped by years in social work and theology. That background informs how she listens and asks questions about values, meaning, and everyday struggles.
How Karen works
Sessions aim to build on strengths and practical steps rather than jargon. Karen has worked across many settings, including schools and correctional programs, which gave her hands-on experience with addiction, group work, and teaching psychosocial topics. She has supported people coping with trauma, post-traumatic stress symptoms, severe panic, and complicated grief.
Her clinical approaches include attachment-based work, client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, and emotionally-focused ideas. She draws on these to tailor sessions to each person's needs and goals. Conversations may address stress, anxiety, relationships, parenting, mood concerns, ADHD, eating and sleeping issues, and career challenges.
People can expect a relaxed, nonjudgmental tone in session. Karen emphasizes collaboration and practical tools to manage symptoms and life changes. She works with diverse sexual orientations and cultural backgrounds, aiming to support people as they navigate difficult moments and build on what already works for them.
Karen lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Karen works with
The areas below are the ones Karen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early connections affect current relationships and emotional patterns. Online sessions can help identify those patterns and practice new ways of relating in everyday life. Client-centered therapy centers the person's experience and priorities; the therapist follows the client's lead and offers empathy while helping clarify goals and next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Karen will work together with each person to choose which methods fit best based on needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process can be revisited over time as concerns change.
Online therapy offers multiple ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not convenient, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, school, or caregiving duties, and to use different formats for skill practice, follow-up, or deeper conversation.
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