About Orion
Orion Block is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Rhode Island. Orion has eight years of clinical therapy experience alongside over a decade of community organizing and education around race, women's issues, and LGBTQIA+ concerns. Orion uses a client-centered approach that treats each person as the expert on their life.
Orion focuses on anxiety and stress alongside depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
They also support people working through gender and sexuality questions, body image and eating issues, and the emotional impact of chronic illness or caregiving. Everyday problems such as communication struggles, commitment worries, and feelings of abandonment are also part of Orion's practice. In sessions Orion draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and client-centered methods.
Sessions tend to be practical and grounded - identifying values, testing small behavior changes, and learning ways to manage distress. The aim is to build skills the client can use outside appointments. Orion brings an intersectional lens from years of community work to how they approach identity, power, and stress.
They emphasize respect, sensitivity, and straightforward feedback while helping clients lean on their existing strengths. Progress is paced to the person's goals and comfort. Orion works in Rhode Island and offers sessions in English.
Their background blends clinical experience with community education, which shapes a collaborative and rights-aware approach to care.
How Orion's approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are hard. In practice this often means learning simple exercises to accept difficult thoughts and commit to actions that match personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Clients learn practical strategies to change reactions and build predictable routines. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, respect, and collaboration so clients steer the pace and focus of sessions while the therapist reflects and supports their choices.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Orion works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That may mean using ACT exercises one week and CBT skill practice the next, or keeping sessions grounded in client-centered conversation while introducing focused techniques over time.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a lighter option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging support brief check-ins and ongoing coaching between appointments. These options increase flexibility for scheduling, help people balance work or caregiving demands, and allow continuity of care across locations.
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What this therapist works with
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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Nevada, Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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