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Orion Crook, Psychotherapist

Orion Crook holds a Master of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of West Georgia, a Humanistic Praxis Certificate, and is a member and former scholar of the American Academy of Psychotherapists. They are a Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York.

For them, the practice of psychotherapy is an art form deeply engaged with the science of psychology. Their training spans a broad range of theories and techniques—such as DBT, CBT, dual diagnosis treatment, existential, Gestalt, relational, somatic, and expressive arts therapies—with an emphasis on a Humanistic approach to both therapy and living.

They believe that showing up authentically—open, direct, and present—helps clients feel safe enough to do the same. Expression in all its forms becomes a bridge to explore who you are, how you’ve been shaped, and what you’re ready to create next in your life. Their active art practice centers around one of their therapeutic techniques, Re-encountering the Core—a body of work chronicling their own journey toward the core self and its intricate relationship to the psyche’s complexities amid reality.

Outside of therapy and art, Orion is an avid lover of aquariums, passionate about activism, enjoys gardening, and is dedicated to building intentional community. SInce 2016, they founded and ran a Therapeutic Artists Residency that in 2023 became the nonprofit, Therapeutic Artist’s Resource that works at the intersection of art and healing, making both more accessible, creative, and interactive.

A client I have worked with for over a year and half wrote this for me to post on this site. Maybe it can help guide you:

A Client’s Letter

Trust the Process

Re-encountering the Core MeditationTM

In psychology, the core symbolizes an individual’s internal essence, comprising their values and beliefs. In today’s unfathomable times, as a psychotherapist, I observe clients feeling trapped in capitalism, losing hope in our corporatocratic government, questioning the core of our shared humanity, and grappling with the enormity of human atrocities. In response, I’ve crafted a therapeutic method where individuals can symbolically lock in an imaginal object into their somatic experience, centralizing a consistent core that supports psychological resilience and well-being. This new corporeal organ functions as a savoring storage unit and place to ground or charge up the nervous system. Over time I work with them to manifest it through making art, charms, altars to their core self, and to practice feeling the felt sense of it in their body.

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Our Revolutionary Core

A Revolutionary Activation version of the same technique — all the components, less of a meditation. Recommended unless you're seeking something deeper.
Let's alter the timeline and catalyze our most radical center. One by one, we establish a steadfast object at the center of our nervous system — forming a collective web, a shared core language, a network that pulses and holds: a net that functions as a liberated front.
Right now, we need an internal place to return to: to ground, to activate, to savor our blissings. Together, let's re-establish the core of humanity, one nervous system at a time. The revolution needs our fight. And it needs us to keep it together.
Our Revolutionary Core
A Revolutionary Activation version of the same technique — all the components, less of a meditation. Recommended unless you're seeking a deeper mediation although this does have a mediation component.
Let's alter the timeline and catalyze our most radical center. One by one, we establish a steadfast object at the center of our nervous system — forming a collective web, a shared core language, a network that pulses and holds: a net that functions as a liberated front.
Right now, we need an internal place to return to: to ground, to activate, to savor our blissings. Together, let's re-establish the core of humanity, one nervous system at a time. The revolution needs our fight. And it needs us to keep it together.

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