- Client-centered support
- Gender and sexuality focus
- Practical coping tools
About Orion
Orion Block is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Rhode Island. Orion draws on eight years of clinical experience and more than 15 years of community organizing and education focused on race, women’s, and LGBTQIA+ issues. They aim to meet people where they are and help them build independence through therapy.
Orion uses a client-centered style that treats the person in the room as the expert on their life. Sessions focus on the client’s strengths, values, and beliefs to guide practical next steps. The approach is direct but compassionate, with attention to honesty and respect.
They work with a wide range of concerns including depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and challenges around gender and sexuality. Orion also supports people dealing with eating and body image concerns, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, and hoarding.
Additional focuses include adoption and foster care issues, attachment and abandonment concerns, BDSM and kink matters, gender dysphoria, and shame or guilt. Orion integrates tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative work to match interventions to the person’s needs.
Clients can expect collaborative planning that aims to build coping skills and clearer priorities. Orion welcomes conversations about identity, relationships, and life transitions, and works to create a space where people can name what matters and take steps toward it.
Orion uses a client-centered style that treats the person in the room as the expert on their life. Sessions focus on the client’s strengths, values, and beliefs to guide practical next steps. The approach is direct but compassionate, with attention to honesty and respect.
They work with a wide range of concerns including depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and challenges around gender and sexuality. Orion also supports people dealing with eating and body image concerns, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, and hoarding.
Additional focuses include adoption and foster care issues, attachment and abandonment concerns, BDSM and kink matters, gender dysphoria, and shame or guilt. Orion integrates tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative work to match interventions to the person’s needs.
Clients can expect collaborative planning that aims to build coping skills and clearer priorities. Orion welcomes conversations about identity, relationships, and life transitions, and works to create a space where people can name what matters and take steps toward it.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.