About Karen
Karen Medlock is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who combines nearly three decades of experience with a practical, down-to-earth style. She holds two master's degrees and has worked in a range of settings, from classrooms to correctional facilities. Karen focuses on meeting people where they are and helping them take the next steps toward feeling more steady and capable.
She uses a holistic approach that brings together emotional, relational, and practical pieces of life.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear, manageable steps and time to talk through what matters most. Karen draws on experience running groups, offering psycho-social classes, and supporting people through addiction and trauma recovery. Her background includes teaching across K-12 grades and doing sexual offender treatment and addiction work in a prison setting.
Those roles shaped her skills in managing intense emotions, panic attacks, and grief. She also has experience with relationship concerns, intimacy issues, parenting strain, and identity topics related to sexual orientation. Karen describes a relaxed, companionable style in sessions.
She aims to help people identify strengths and build coping tools that fit everyday life. She pays attention to attachment patterns and relationship dynamics while keeping conversations straightforward and goal-oriented. Clients can work with her on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, eating and sleep problems, self-esteem, ADHD, and major life transitions.
Karen offers video, phone, chat, and text formats to suit different schedules and preferences.
How her approaches guide online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. It can help when relationship patterns, trust, or connection feel stuck. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist, offering a nonjudgmental space to talk and be heard; this helps when someone needs a calm place to sort thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and works on practical changes that reduce distress and improve coping.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and try methods that fit those needs. That process is collaborative, with adjustments made as progress and challenges become clear.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and reading body language, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and text messaging supports short updates or reflection between sessions. These options allow flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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