About Orion
Orion Block is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with licenses in Rhode Island and Nevada. Orion brings eight years of therapy experience and more than 15 years of community organizing and education. They combine practical skills with an understanding of gender and sexuality concerns to help people move forward.
Orion emphasizes a client-centered approach. Sessions focus on the person in front of them - their values, strengths, and goals.
Background and approach
Orion aims to help people build skills to manage stress, anxiety, depression, and mood shifts, and to make decisions that fit their life. They also work with issues around gender identity, sexual identity, and intimacy. This includes people exploring transgender or gender non-conforming identity, kink and alternative sexual culture, asexuality, and related relationship concerns.
Orion draws on experience with LGBT communities and an intersectional perspective from years of community work. Therapy can address trauma, grief, family of origin concerns, attachment and abandonment issues, and eating or body-image difficulties. Orion uses straightforward techniques from cognitive behavioral work, mindfulness, and acceptance-based approaches alongside motivational conversation to set practical goals and track progress.
People who choose Orion can expect a respectful, direct, and nonjudgmental tone. They aim to clarify what matters to each person, reduce unhelpful cycles, and strengthen coping during life transitions and chronic stresses. Orion practices in Rhode Island and holds the credential LICSW and the LCSW license in Nevada.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Orion uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take action in line with those values. ACT combines noticing unhelpful thoughts with small practical steps to build a meaningful life. They also use Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the person’s experience and priorities; the therapist follows the person’s lead and offers empathy and reflective listening to help people find their own direction.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Orion will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs and then choose techniques that fit. Sessions often blend methods so the work matches the person rather than a single protocol.
Online therapy with Orion is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, while phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone needs to fit a session into a busy schedule. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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