Sarah Newbold
Progressive Therapeutic Counselling
I'm Sarah Newbold (she/her): a nationally-accredited Therapist, Social Worker and Clinical Supervisor.
For twenty years, I’ve been working closely with power, intimacy, relationships and the removal of shame from our diverse lives.
Hello, I’m Sarah
Twenty years across counselling, trauma, crisis support, violence prevention and community care taught me something simple: therapy shouldn't shrink people down to a diagnosis.
I'm genuinely interested in people, in power, survival, intimacy, grief, identity, and the imperfect ways we try to care for each other under hard conditions.
Most of the people who find me are carrying complicated lives, trauma, burnout, relational harm, the exhaustion of functioning inside systems that were never built for them.
I'd rather understand the pattern than hand someone a label.
A bit of slightly more personal info about me:
I’m proudly queer, a cis woman, keen explorer of different forms of intimacy & connection, writer, reader, hiker, swimmer and lover of all of the amazing people in my life.
Therapy Services
Individual Therapy
$155 standard · $115 accessibility rate
One-on-one work on all of life’s issues.
All sessions, 50 minutes
Relationship Therapy
$230 two people · $340 three people
I work with ALL relationship styles.
All sessions, 50 minutes
Sex & Kink Therapy
$155 standard · $115 accessibility rate
One-on-one work on ALL sex & kink issues.
All sessions, 50 minutes
I do not currently offer Medicare rebates or work with private health insurance providers.
Professional Services for Practitioners
Professional Clinical Supervision
$190
One-on-one sessions with mental health practitioners. Check with Sarah for eligibility.
All sessions, 50 minutes
Group Clinical Supervision
$45
Group sessions with mental health practitioners. Check with Sarah for eligibility.
All sessions, 50 minutes
There are no fringe topics or lives here
Sex, kink, gender, abortion, AI relationships, coercive control, non-monogamy and medically dismissed experiences are often treated as difficult subjects in therapy.
Here, they are part of my life & work.
You will not need to explain your identity, defend your relationships, minimise your work or justify what has happened to your body.
Queer and trans lives are understood.
Sex work is real work.
All relationship structures are welcome.
Medical dismissal is taken seriously.
Abortion is healthcare.
Relational Safety
Relational Safety
You do not need proof that something is wrong before you are allowed to question it.
We can look carefully at coercion, control, surveillance, boundary violations, fear and the patterns that leave you doubting your own experience.
The aim is greater clarity, choice and safety, without pressuring you toward a decision.
Abortion
Abortion
Abortion is healthcare, and there is no correct emotional response to it.
You may feel certain, conflicted, relieved, grieving, angry, numb or something that changes over time.
Wherever you are in the decision or its aftermath, you will not be asked to defend it here.
Gender-affirming
Gynaecological
Support
Gender-affirming gyaecological support
Endometriosis, PMOS, perimenopause, menopause, fertility and medical dismissal can shape far more than the body.
They affect identity, relationships, sexuality, trust and the way you understand yourself.
This is therapeutic support that takes both your body and your gender seriously, without reducing one to the other.
Sex & Kink
Sex and kink
Sex, desire, kink and power can be spoken about directly here, without embarrassment or pathologising.
We can work with pleasure, shame, consent, intimacy, fantasy, changing desire and the gap between what is wanted and what feels possible to say.
Consensual kink between adults is not treated as a symptom that needs to be explained away.
Digital Relationships & AI
Digital relationships & AI
Relationships mediated through screens and AI can carry real attachment, intimacy, grief, comfort and conflict.
You will not be asked to prove that an experience matters before we can talk about its impact.
We can explore what the relationship gives you, what it costs you and what you want from it now.
Trauma
Trauma
Trauma is often not only what happened, but what you had to become in order to survive it.
Therapy can help you understand the responses that protected you, without shaming you for still carrying them.
We work toward a life shaped by more than vigilance, endurance and getting through the day.
Pay the Rent
For the past 7 years PTC has contributed 2% of profits as part of the Pay The Rent movement and repatriations to:
The Jilya Institute
Decolonise Sex Work AU
My Values
Values are fundamental to me and how I approach everyone I work with.
My values shape how people are spoken to, understood, believed, respected, and cared for.
I try to ensure the way I work is genuinely aligned with the values I speak about, both inside and outside the counselling room.
The values below are fundamental to who I am as a person, and as a practitioner:
Anti Racist
Sex and Kink +
Neurodivergent +
Pro Abortion
Queer & Gender Diverse +
Disability +