About Karen
Karen Medlock is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 27 years of experience. She holds two master's degrees and has practiced in Texas and Louisiana. Karen draws on a long career that includes classroom teaching and corrections work to guide her approach.
She uses a down-to-earth style in sessions. Conversations are practical and paced to where the person is in life. Karen aims to help people build strengths and find workable steps forward.
Background and approach
Her background includes classroom teaching from kindergarten through twelfth grade, which she says informed how she connects with adolescents and teens. She also ran sexual offender treatment and group programs in a corrections setting, which contributed to her experience leading groups and offering addiction-related support.
Karen has worked with a broad range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addiction, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, and ADHD. She has particular experience with trauma, post-traumatic symptoms, panic attacks, and complicated grief. Her clinical work combines attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, and cognitive-behavioral techniques.
Sessions often include talking through patterns, practicing new ways of coping, and setting concrete goals. Karen describes her manner as laid-back and collaborative. She offers sessions using video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling is set after completing a short matching questionnaire.
How Karen's Approaches Translate to Online Work
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds and emotions. In an online session this approach helps identify recurring patterns in relationships and to practice different ways of connecting and responding in close relationships.Client-centered therapy centers on listening and on the person's own goals. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects what comes up, and helps people name their priorities and make decisions that feel right for them.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. Online CBT sessions often include short skills practice between meetings, such as tracking thoughts or trying a new behavior, which can help with anxiety, mood, and attention-related concerns like ADHD.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karen will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most useful, and she adjusts techniques based on the client's goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful when visual cues help the conversation. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching reminders, or when a written record of the conversation is helpful. These options make scheduling more flexible and can help therapy fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Texas
- Languages
- English
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