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 | LCSW-S 2026
Karen Carrillo is a Texas-based stand-up comedian and Licensed Clinical Social Worker-Supervisor, which means she spends her days helping people process their trauma and her nights turning hers into material. Known as The Blue Haired Social Worker, Karen brings her smart-ass, slightly inappropriate take to therapy, relationships, aging, sexuality, ADHD, and the general fuckery of being a human. After years of getting paid to listen to other people’s problems, she finally grabbed a microphone so everyone has to listen to hers.
Before taking her issues to the stage, Karen earned her Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Arkansas and her Master of Social Work from the University of Texas at Arlington. She is trained in Phases 1 and 2 of Brainspotting and has spent her career working in mental health, clinical practice, supervision, and nonprofit work. Because apparently one emotionally demanding career wasn’t enough, Karen later trained in stand-up comedy and storytelling at Dallas Comedy Club, where she learned to turn the things she’d normally process in therapy into things strangers will laugh at instead.
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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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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!