About Orly
Orly Avidor is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She brings an engaged, down-to-earth style and mixes warmth, clear direction, and a touch of humor. Orly works in Illinois and holds LCSW credentials in Illinois and New Jersey.
She speaks English and Hebrew. Orly describes herself as a generalist with a spiritual edge. She has worked with many people facing depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and substance or process addictions.
How Orly works
Her practice also addresses grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, bipolar symptoms, and career or life transitions. In sessions she aims for a strong therapeutic partnership. She listens closely, asks direct questions, and helps clients turn insight into practical steps.
Her style balances emotional support with clear problem-solving so clients leave with concrete plans they can try between sessions. Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, client-centered principles, cognitive behavioral strategies, and mindfulness practices. Orly helps people work through codependency, communication problems, guilt and shame, and compassion fatigue by combining these methods to fit each person’s needs.
She encourages people to be honest about where they are and to take gradual steps toward change. Orly helps clients identify core values, reduce unhelpful behaviors, and build motivation for healthier routines. Her goal is to help people feel more capable when facing life’s hard choices.
Orly lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Orly works with
The areas below are the ones Orly selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English, Hebrew |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small committed actions toward those values while accepting uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and patterns like avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and trying practical experiments to change them; it is useful for anxiety, sleep and eating issues, and many mood challenges. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and emotional reactions and can help with intimacy, communication, and trust issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss these methods with each person and decide collaboratively which ones to use based on the client's goals, needs, and preferences. Plans can be adjusted over time as progress and priorities change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text-based messaging can support ongoing check-ins and quick problem-solving between sessions. These formats make it easier to schedule appointments, use different ways of communicating, and continue therapy from wherever the client is located in Illinois.
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