Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Depression
How Karen works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Louisiana, Texas
- Years in practice
- 27
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Karen
Karen Medlock is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 27 years of experience. She holds two master’s degrees, one in social work and one in theology, and practices from Texas. Her background includes classroom teaching and correctional settings, which shaped a practical, down-to-earth approach to care.
Karen keeps sessions straightforward and person-focused. She listens first, then helps people identify manageable steps. Her style is relaxed and adaptable so conversations follow where the client is right now.
Background and approach
She emphasizes respect for diverse identities, including different cultures and sexual orientations. Her past work included teaching kindergarten through high school and providing treatment and groups in a prison setting. Those roles built skills in addiction work, group facilitation, and delivering psychoeducational classes on practical topics.
That experience informs how she supports people coping with trauma, grief, and panic attacks. Karen uses several therapeutic approaches to match a person’s needs, often blending them so sessions feel useful and relevant. She helps people tackle stress, anxiety, anger, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, sleep and eating concerns, and life changes.
She also supports those working through self-esteem, career questions, and ADHD-related challenges. People can expect an encouraging, strengths-focused partnership. Karen helps clients name realistic goals, practice new skills between sessions, and build on small successes.
Her aim is to make therapy manageable and practical for everyday life.
What Karen works with
Everything Karen lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Karen's practice.
- 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.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice how they relate to others and build more supported ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on emotions in close relationships and helps people express needs clearly and repair bonds.Choosing the right approach is often a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face-to-face when schedules or distance make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a good fit when bandwidth is low. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick reflections, brief coaching, or ongoing check-ins between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work and family life while still using evidence-informed approaches.
Questions people ask about Karen
What kinds of concerns does she address?
Karen works with many issues including stress, anxiety, grief, depression, anger, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, sleep and eating concerns, and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapy style?
She uses a relaxed, person-centered approach and aims for practical steps. Sessions focus on listening, setting realistic goals, and practicing skills between meetings.
What experience does she bring?
She has 27 years of experience that include classroom teaching and work in correctional settings, which supported group work, addiction treatment, and trauma care.
What credentials and region apply?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - licensed in Texas. Her practice is based in Texas.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to work together.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.