About Orion
Orion Block is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Rhode Island. Orion brings eight years of clinical therapy experience together with over a decade of community organizing and education on race, women's, and LGBTQIA+ issues. They use a client-focused approach that centers each person's experience and goals.
Orion aims to help people rely on their strengths and values. Sessions emphasize respect, honesty, and practical steps toward independence.
How Orion works
Orion works to make therapy a collaborative process where the client's knowledge of their life guides the work. In practice Orion addresses stress, anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. They also focus on gender and sexuality concerns, including gender non-conformity and a range of sexual identity questions.
Other areas of focus include trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, and relationship concerns. Orion brings experience supporting people coping with eating and body image concerns, chronic pain and illness, caregiver stress, and family of origin issues. They also work with people facing abandonment, attachment struggles, and hoarding.
The goal is to use practical strategies that fit into everyday life. Therapy draws on a mix of approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral work, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and client-centered techniques. Orion offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and routines.
Orion lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Orion works with
The areas below are the ones Orion selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LICSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Rhode Island |
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Online support options
How evidence-based approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and builds a trusting working relationship to support growth and self-direction.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Orion will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That collaborative process guides whether ACT, CBT, client-centered methods, mindfulness practices, or motivational interviewing become the focus.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for shorter check-ins, coaching-style support, or fitting therapy into a busy day. These options give flexibility to match therapy to routines and needs.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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