Care work for us, by us

On Queer Time

Hello! I'm Olga Panteleeva

I’m a social justice-focused therapist, coach, and consultant.

My practice centers experiences of queer, trans, disabled, and immigrant clients. And, I welcome clients of all identities.

Practice, not a project

My goal as a care worker is to help people build a sustainable life: to help them get to a place where they have enough supports and skills to carry the challenges of the world.

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It can be hard to imagine a future. Especially now, during multiple overlapping crises. Especially in the world that keeps missing deadlines on climate change. Especially when you move in the world with a marginalized identity and don’t see yourself reflected in normative stories of future. It can be hard to imagine what your “long game” can look like when everything feels urgent and larger than life.

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That’s why my approach focuses on practices, not projects. A project has a goal and a deadline. A practice is a way of living. As you strengthen your long-term practices of compassion, resilience, and pacing, I can be there for you every step of the way as your champion, as a sounding board, or just someone who is there for you while you sit with your feelings.

What do you need to live a good life?

To belong in a community?

To build lasting connections that grow stronger through the dance of rupture and repair?

To be proud of who you are, despite a lifetime of being made to feel less than?

To accept the parts of you that you thought were unlovable?

To feel your intrinsic worth, even though the world tells you that your worth is what you produce?

To slow down and rest when all you have been taught is how to go fast?

To have the capacity to feel the whole range of human emotions without overwhelm?

To have the space to hold the world’s horrors without becoming numb to its wonders?

To make meaning?

To contribute to causes you care about?

My Principles

Systemic lens

Relational

Collaborative

Reparative

Non-pathology