Orion Block, LICSW, LCSW

Orion Block is a licensed clinical social worker with eight years of direct therapy experience and more than 15 years of community organizing and education rooted in an intersectional approach to race, women’s, and LGBTQIA+ issues. Orion holds both LICSW and LCSW credentials, which are clinical social work licenses authorizing practice as a therapist in Rhode Island and Nevada. Their practice centers on the belief that the person in therapy is the expert on their own life, and the therapist’s role is to support increased independence and well-being using the client’s existing strengths, beliefs, and capacities.

Warmth, respect, sensitivity, and honest feedback inform Orion’s work, which blends trauma-informed and strengths-based perspectives to address a wide range of concerns. Orion works with people experiencing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem struggles, eating and body-image issues, chronic pain or illness, caregiver stress, and complicated family dynamics. Additional focuses include gender dysphoria, LGBT-related concerns, intimacy and relationship difficulties, attachment and abandonment issues, adoption and foster care, hoarding, and alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink.

Orion also provides coaching-oriented support for life transitions and decision-making, and frequently assists those navigating identity, relationship configuration, and communication challenges. They approach each person with compassion and practical tools to help move toward clearer values and more effective coping.