- Years in practice
- 27
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Louisiana, Texas
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Grief
About Karen
Karen Medlock is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 27 years of experience. She practices in Texas and brings a wide background in social work and theology to her sessions. Karen is calm and approachable, and she meets people where they are in life.
She has worked across many settings, including schools and correctional facilities, and has experience running groups and addiction-focused programming. Those roles shaped how she teaches coping skills and structures practical steps for change.
Background and approach
She has supported people through trauma, PTSD symptoms, panic attacks, grief, and loss. Her style is relaxed and person-centered. Sessions are conversational and focused on the issues a client brings.
Karen helps people identify strengths and build skills for managing anxiety, depression, parenting stress, relationship concerns, and life transitions. Karen uses a mix of approaches based on the person in front of her. She draws on attachment ideas to look at relationship patterns, cognitive-behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and emotionally focused work to address closeness and intimacy issues.
Together she and the client decide what fits best. Practical support is part of the work. She teaches strategies for sleep, mood, anger, and addiction recovery, and offers coaching for career or parenting challenges.
Sessions can include skill practice, gentle exploration of past hurts, and step-by-step plans for moving forward.
What Karen works with
Everything Karen lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Karen helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Karen lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice how they connect, react, and seek closeness, and it can be useful for intimacy or relationship concerns. Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in the room and emphasizes listening, empathy, and pacing the work to a client's comfort; it helps when someone needs a steady, supportive space to sort things out. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with concrete exercises and strategies, which helps with anxiety, mood, sleep, and coping skills.Choosing the right approach is often part of the first few sessions. Karen will collaborate with each person to decide which combination of methods fits their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying strategies, reviewing what works, and adjusting the plan together over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows for face-to-face conversation from wherever you are. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when screen breaks are needed. Live chat and messaging make it possible to share short check-ins, practice skills between sessions, or fit support into a busy day. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into life.
Questions people ask about Karen
What concerns does Karen commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and many related concerns.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her approach is relaxed and person-centered, with conversational sessions that focus on practical strategies and building strengths.
What background does she bring to sessions?
Karen has 27 years of experience including work in schools and correctional settings, group programming, and grief and trauma care.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds LCSW credentials and practices in Texas.
Can sessions be held in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does pricing work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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