Progressive Therapeutic Counselling
Progressive Therapeutic Counselling is committed to redefining what steady, values-based care looks like.
Supporting Our Community Through a Current Bushfire Crisis
Fires are burning on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, where we're based. Our neighbours in Ravenswood, Harcourt, and surrounding areas need immediate support.
We're raising mutual aid funds that go directly to people affected by these fires.
No large organisations, no admin costs, no delays. Just community caring for community.
Every dollar helps someone with accommodation, essentials, food, or managing the sudden financial shock of displacement.
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Free Resource: After the Fire - Mental Health, Ecological Grief, and Community Healing
If you've been affected by the current Australian bushfires or any natural disaster, this guide might offer some support. "After the Fire" brings together evidence-based approaches to mental health alongside lived experience of navigating the long road of bushfire recovery.
What you'll find:
Guidance on psychological first aid and trauma support in the immediate aftermath
Ideas for supporting children and families through disaster recovery
Space for understanding and holding ecological grief
Strategies for longer-term recovery, recognising this work spans months to years
Thoughts on supporting diverse communities including CALD populations and people with disabilities
For practitioners: reflections on vicarious trauma and organisational sustainability
Community resilience and preparedness for what might come next
This resource is offered freely. Recovery support needs to be accessible to everyone.
The guide attempts to centre decolonial practice, intersectional approaches, and the understanding that mental health can't be separated from the health of our communities and Country. It recognises that healing from bushfire happens collectively, not in isolation, and takes far longer than most systems acknowledge.
Whether you're directly affected by Victorian fires, supporting someone who is, or working in disaster recovery, this resource offers some practical guidance grounded in both research and lived experience.
Written by Sarah Newbold, social worker and therapist working with trauma, community mental health, and marginalised populations.
If you feel unsafe, overwhelmed, or at risk of harm, please seek immediate support.
Call 000 in an emergency.
Contact Lifeline 13 11 14, available 24 hours.
Attend your nearest emergency department if needed.
Download the guide →
Care isn’t neutral. It never was.
We’re here for the people and practitioners who want therapy that considers the whole picture: the personal, the political, and everything in between.
Meet our team
All PTC Counsellors are degree qualified & professionally accredited mental health practitioners.
Welcome to PTC.
We offer individual therapy, as well as sex, kink, relationship and NDIS therapeutic support.
Creating a therapeutic space, warmly welcoming all identities, relationship styles & consensual sexual practices, is our priority.
We are a neurodivergent+ practice.
Our values
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to learn more about who we are and our advocacy work
At PTC, we offer a two-tier payment structure, to try and make therapy more affordable & accessbile.
We don’t receive any government assistance, nor private funding. All of our work is funded solely through our therapeutic activities.
We have chosen to provide a two-tier payment option for individual counselling, in recognition of the cost of therapeutic support.
The financial discount option is available to anyone. We don’t require a concession card. We operate on a system of trust. If that’s what you can afford to pay, that’s absolutely ok! Please just let us know.
We don’t work with mental health plans, or private health cover.
If you can afford to pay the standard rate, we ask that you do, as that helps us to build our practice and contributes to our pro-bono work.
Pay the Rent & Mutual Aid
The Pay the Rent movement calls for non-Indigenous individuals and businesses to regularly contribute financially to Indigenous organisations as part of reparations and restorative justice. This movement aims to provide tangible support to Indigenous communities, addressing historical and ongoing injustices while fostering a sense of accountability and solidarity.
At Progressive Therapeutic Collective (PTC), we've been dedicated to paying the rent since our inception four years ago.
Each year, we allocate 1% of our annual profit to The Westerman Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health and another 1% to Decolonise Sex Work Australia, a Blak mutual aid fund for sex workers. As a white-owned business, we believe it’s crucial to acknowledge and address systemic injustices against Indigenous communities. Our commitment to mutual aid is about taking concrete actions to bring aboug meaningful and genuine social change.
