Karen Medlock, LCSW

Karen Medlock is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Texas and Louisiana with 27 years of clinical experience. She works with common life struggles including stress, anxiety, grief, parenting concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, depression, bipolar disorder, attention concerns, and coping with life changes. Sessions are in English and her practice includes a broad set of concerns people bring to therapy.

She holds two master’s degrees, one in social work and one in theology, and earlier worked as a certified teacher for kindergarten through grade twelve. That classroom background informs how she talks with adolescents and teenagers and how she structures learning in sessions. Her experience also includes running group programs and psycho-social classes on topics such as addiction and coping skills.

Medlock has worked in correctional settings providing sexual offender treatment and addiction-related programming. Those roles expanded her skills with trauma, severe panic reactions, grief, and loss. She describes people she’s worked with as having problems left unaddressed from the past and uses that perspective when addressing present concerns.

Her therapeutic style is relaxed and straightforward. She listens for where a person is in life and then helps them build on practical strengths. Conversations can include skill practice, discussion of attachment and patterns, and making plans for day-to-day coping.

Practical issues like work, caregiving duties, and scheduling are taken into account when planning care. To begin, a short intake and scheduling step is used so sessions can match the client's goals and timing.

How her approaches translate to online work