Olga Naroditskaya, LCSW

About Me

Hi, I’m Olga — therapist, recovering overfunctioner, and soft-spoken nervous system anarchist. I help people stop contorting themselves into burnout-proof shapes and start building a relationship with their bodies that doesn’t require a monthly breakdown to feel alive.

I work with people who “look fine.” The high-functioning hot messes. The masked-up medical pros. The shadow artists with perfectionism in one hand and a bottle of melatonin in the other. The ones who hold it all together — until they’re Googling “how to quit capitalism without disappointing everyone.”

Most of my clients are neurodivergent (diagnosed, self-diagnosed, or too tired to care anymore), deeply sensitive, and absurdly skilled at pushing through. Their inner critic often sounds like a retired Soviet gymnastics coach who lights a cigarette and mutters, “You call that boundary? Try again. This time with discipline. And better posture.”

Therapy with me is somatic, parts-based, gently irreverent, and built for the nervous system you actually have — not the one productivity culture keeps trying to upgrade. We’ll get curious about the parts of you that fawn, freeze, micromanage, and disassociate into the fridge light. We’ll build new ways to live, not just survive — with more boundaries, more breath, and maybe an emotional support squirrel or two. (Metaphorical. Probably.)

Trainings:

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Online Circle (2023)
PESI

Somatic Practitioner Training (2025)
Holistic Life Navigation

Performance Psychology (2025)
CE Training Workshops

Why I Do This Work

I became a therapist because I’ve lived it. The pressure. The collapse. The “how is everyone else doing this without screaming” moment. Like a lot of my clients, I spent years thinking I just needed to try harder — until my body said absolutely not in the form of jaw tension, burnout, and a mysteriously specific fear of unread emails.

What changed everything for me? Somatic therapy, parts work, nervous system education, and finally realizing that the pathology wasn’t in me — it was in a society addicted to hustle and allergic to rest.

I’ve been a therapist since 2014, working across agencies, clinics, and now my private practice, where I support neurodivergent humans, creatives, and caretakers with really good performance reviews and really bad burnout. My work is about helping people unlearn the martyrdom, reconnect with their actual needs, and stop giving their life force away to systems that don’t even offer dental.

Spoiler: it’s not your fault.
But there is a way forward.

Let’s build it — slowly, spaciously, with lots of weird metaphors and probably a spreadsheet or two (but the cozy kind).