Karen Medlock, LCSW

Karen Medlock is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Texas with 27 years of practice. She brings long experience across settings and a history of working with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, addictions, sleeping and eating concerns, relationship and intimacy questions, parenting challenges, and anger.

Her background includes two master's degrees - social work and theology - and prior work as a certified teacher from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Those classroom years shaped how she explains things and supports teenagers and adolescents. She has also led group work and psychoeducational classes in correctional settings, which expanded her work with addiction and offender treatment populations.

Karen uses several therapy approaches in her work, including attachment-based methods, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused work, and existential ideas. Sessions tend to be straightforward and practical. She focuses on what people are experiencing and on steps they can try between meetings.

She has long experience with trauma and post-traumatic stress symptoms, including severe panic reactions, and with complicated grief and loss. Karen also lists attention to issues like ADHD, bipolar concerns, codependency, body image, and caregiving stress among her areas of focus.

Her style is relaxed and adaptive. She says she responds to where a person is in life and collaborates on next steps. People can expect clear conversation, practical coping strategies, and work on patterns that fuel anger, resentment, and repeated conflict.

Approaches used in online sessions and how they help