Orion Block
Adolescent & Adult Therapist
Pronouns: Hir/Ze
Licensure: Therapist
Location: Rhode Island & Nevada
Language: English
Fee:
Sliding Scale: Available
Insurance:
Accepting New Clients: Yes
Specialties:
ADHD, Anxiety, Bipolar & PTSD
Adolescents, Anger & Highly Sensitive People
Grief, Trauma & Life Transitions
LGBTQIA+, Gender Identity & Gender-Affirming Care
Relationships: Couples, Polyamory & Non-Monogamy
Cultural Identity, Systemic Oppression & Holistic Coaching
ABOUT ME
Orion Block has been working as a therapist for 4 years and has over 15 years of community organizing and educating with an intersectional lens on race, women's, and LGBTQIA+ community issues.
Hir therapy style is client focused, with the idea that YOU are the expert of your own life experience and ze is here to assist you to become independent. Ze believes in treating all with respect, sensitivity, compassion, and honesty. Ze is a therapist that will utilize your strengths, beliefs, and abilities to help guide the focus of therapy to reinforce self healing.
Orion enjoys working with a wide variety of people and issues that include PTSD/trauma, anxiety, borderline, disability, depression, abandonment, suicidality, self harm, hoarding and family issues. Hir specialty is gender and sexuality which encompasses transgender and gender non-conforming folx and those having challenges in their sexual identity or relationship issues that include asexuality, kink, poly etc.
Ze’s clinical approaches include: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Standpoint theory.
Why I Do This Work
“I chose this work because I have seen how healing deepens when it is rooted in culture, language, and lived experience. My passion is in creating safe spaces for people whose stories and identities may not have always been honored.”
— Orion Block
My Approach in Practice
In our sessions, I might invite you to pause and check in with your body, noticing any sensations or emotions present in the moment. From there, we could explore what comes up using Internal Family Systems, perhaps meeting and listening to different parts of yourself with curiosity and compassion. Some days, we might use art-making or narrative exercises to give voice to experiences that feel difficult to put into words. Other times, somatic grounding or breathing practices can help you feel safe and regulated before moving into deeper work. My goal is to co-create a space where you feel supported to explore at your own pace, with room for both vulnerability and growth.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Compassion Focused, Culturally Responsive/Affirming, Family Systems Feminist Therapy, Group Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy , Strength-Based
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BDSM/ Kink/ Poly-Positive, Disability Justice, Free Gender-Affirming Care Letter Provider for Transgender People (fully pro-bono process) Gender-Affirming Care Access Advocate (TGNB), Gender-Affirming Care Knowledgable (TGNB), HIV Ally, Sex Positive, Sex Worker Ally, Transgender Justice,
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How We Can Work Together
Clients often reach out when they are:
Facing significant life changes and want to build stability and supportive routines.
Exploring or reconnecting with their identity, including cultural roots, values, and self-understanding.
Feeling stuck in unhelpful patterns and wanting to uncover triggers and practice new ways of responding.
Living with the effects of trauma or dissociation and seeking skills for nervous system regulation and resilience.
Navigating eating disorders or disordered eating and wanting a more compassionate, sustainable relationship with food and their body.
No matter the reason, my focus is on creating a collaborative process that moves at your pace and honors your lived experience.
