About Us
Our mission is to accelerate the global development of safe and effective medical therapeutics
Karen Carillo
LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER
BSW UofA 2013 | MSW UTA 2015 | LMSW 2019 | LCSW 2023
Karen Carrillo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of Texas and
founder of both A Sisters Legacy nonprofit and The Blue Haired Social Worker,
PLLC. Her passion for mental health was birthed as a response to personal loss, experience, and family challenges.
Through her work at A Sisters Legacy, she and her team create
beautiful jewelry as a way to fundraise to sponsor hundreds of therapy
sessions each year. Karen uses Brainspotting as a major modality in her
therapeutic practice and aims to create a safe space where clients can feel
comfortable and safe to truly be themselves.
Jill Nastasia
Born and raised in Stratford, CT, Jill was a Midwesterner for 15 years and now calls downtown Dallas home. She loves Dallas and enjoys connecting to the community and putting herself out there to learn and try new things (improv comedy, animal rescue and fostering, and mentoring, just to name a few)! Although she hasn’t found the perfect northeastern-style pizza in DFW yet, Jill loves her life and feels that she’s exactly where she’s supposed to be.
If you’ve talked to Jill, you know she’s all about relationships – whether it’s her relationship with clients, her relationship with her team, or her relationships in her personal life. Since founding MDPM Consulting in 2010, she’s had the pleasure of working with dental professionals and entrepreneurs across the country to grow their businesses to reach their goals AND – in turn – create jobs within their communities. As a small business owner herself, she loves to create jobs for others and help her employees grow and reach their full potential.
In 2019, Jill founded her 501(c)3 nonprofit organization FearLess Dallas. As a teen in Bridgeport, CT, Jill aged out of foster care, and while she had the street smarts and skills necessary to survive, she found herself and women like her struggling to thrive due to a lack of Life 101. Over time, she realized that it was the other women in her community who helped her survive and learn how to navigate adulthood, and when COVID-19 hit, she noticed it was not just women fresh out of the foster system who needed this service. Women+ of all ages were hitting walls, wondering what their next chapter would be.
Why choose us
Lived Experience
he team at TBHSW considers lived experience to be an integral part of what we do. We are living examples that you can go from surviving to thriving.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Social Workers are not just CPS workers! Social Workers are trained professionals who help people of all backgrounds address their needs and overcome challenges. Their primary goal is to improve human well-being, especially for people who are vulnerable, oppressed, or living in poverty. Social Workers can help individuals, families, and communities. In a clinical setting, Social Workers can assess, treat, and diagnose mental health conditions.
TBHSW is working on being paneled with Medicare and Medicaid at this time.
During your first session, you can expect to go through the new client agreement and any expectations. The first couple of sessions for therapy are typically a time where the client and therapist get to know each other and determine if they want to work together and what the plan will be.
In the first session with your teen, your therapist may invite you both into the session at the beginning, then ask to see the teen by themselves. The therapist and parent will discuss the most appropriate structure of future counseling sessions with buy in from your teen.
Each individual therapy session is 50 minutes in length. How many sessions you need depends on your situation and can be discussed with your therapist. After the first 1-2 sessions, you and your therapist will come up with a game plan so you can set goals and work together on achieving them.Many factors can influence the length of therapy including the issues you are seeking help with, the coping strategies you already use, your support network and previous counseling you may have had.
Are you a new therapist struggling with what direction to take sessions with a client in a certain group? Are you wondering why all you learned in school was theory and you’re struggling to apply it? These courses may be helpful for you!