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The honeycomb lattice of α-RuCl₃ is a potential candidate to study the Kitaev model. The predicted ground state for such a model is a Quantum Spin Liquid. There is significant interest in studying the Kitaev interaction in α-RuCl₃, which orders antiferromagnetically below 6 K. Within a single layer, the honeycomb lattice exhibits a small distortion in the b direction, causing the symmetry to be reduced from hexagonal to orthorhombic. The possible effects of this broken in-plane honeycomb symmetry on the Kitaev interactions are not well understood. To this end, we utilize Raman spectroscopy to study the distortion by identifying splittings of the phonon modes. The polarization-resolved phonon spectra of α-RuCl₃ as a function of the crystal orientation, both with the polarization parallel and perpendicular to the quasi-honeycomb plane will be described. Subtle shifts in the phonon peak frequencies were observed as a function of the orientation angle that can be explained by the distortion. A combination of group theory analysis and Laue X-ray diffraction were performed to determine the symmetry of each phonon mode. This methodology uniquely confirms that the point group of α-RuCl₃ is 2/m.