About Raven
Raven O'Rourke earned a Master of Social Work and a Master of Public Health from Tulane University. She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Tennessee and has eight years of experience supporting people facing mood disorders, trauma, and family conflict. Raven focuses on present concerns and practical steps.
She listens with empathy and gives clear feedback and suggestions when they help. Sessions aim to build coping skills and manageable strategies for daily life.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, panic, and stress. She also supports people dealing with grief, addiction, compassion fatigue, and long-term effects of trauma. Raven has experience helping people navigating HIV or AIDS related issues and the emotional fallout from disasters.
She is comfortable talking about relationship and intimacy concerns, including non-monogamous arrangements, polyamory, BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture. Family of origin issues, divorce and separation, guilt, shame, and questions of life purpose are also within her focus. Raven blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools and solution-focused strategies.
She uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people translate insight into action. Her style is straightforward and nonjudgmental, aimed at helping clients find realistic change. Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
Sessions follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time and are limited to people living in Tennessee.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Raven commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused work to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build practical habits. CBT helps identify patterns that fuel anxiety or depression, while solution-focused work narrows attention to small, doable steps and immediate goals.She also draws on client-centered and mindfulness methods to create a calm, listening space. Client-centered work centers the session on the person nd what matters most to them, while mindfulness exercises can help reduce reactivity and ground someone during stress or panic.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and Raven treats it as a collaboration. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try approaches out, and adjust strategies based on what works best for them.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues and richer interaction matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Chat and text messaging are good for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or fitting therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to maintain momentum and fit therapy into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English