About Karen
Karen Medlock is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 27 years of experience. She practices in Texas and brings a broad background to sessions, including social work and theological studies. Karen aims to meet people where they are and help them move forward at a steady, manageable pace.
She uses a direct but relaxed style. Sessions focus on everyday problems like stress, anxiety, grief, depression, parenting concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, and phobias.
Background and approach
Karen also supports people wrestling with addiction, ADHD, eating or sleeping concerns, anger, self-esteem, and life transitions. Her prior work includes group programs, addiction treatment, and psychoeducational classes in correctional settings, which shaped her practical approach to behavioral change. She has also worked with grief, trauma, and severe panic, helping people learn skills to cope and rebuild routines.
Karen draws on attachment-based ideas and client-centered listening to create a steady therapeutic relationship. She brings cognitive-behavioral tools and emotionally-focused ways of addressing relationship patterns when useful. Sessions are collaborative and aim to strengthen coping, communication, and decision-making.
People who prefer a calm, persistent guide tend to fit well with her style. Karen values cultural and sexual orientation diversity and supports clients navigating major life changes, caregiving stress, body-image concerns, and challenges stemming from abandonment or attachment wounds.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on connection and patterns between people. Online sessions use discussion and reflection to notice how attachment needs show up in relationships and decision-making. This can help with intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and attachment wounds.Client-centered therapy prioritizes listening and the client's own goals. In this style the therapist follows the person's pace, validates experience, and encourages self-directed problem solving, which can reduce anxiety and build confidence.
Cognitive behavioral ideas are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Practical exercises and homework can be adapted for video, phone, or text formats to build coping skills for panic, phobias, or sleep problems.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Karen will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and daily life. She adjusts methods as progress and needs change.
Online formats offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a brief break. Live chat or text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, homework review, or people who prefer writing over speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules.
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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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