Progressive Therapeutic Collective: transforming therapy
Available online across the country, on weekdays, evenings and weekends.
Sarah Newbold (she/her)
Practice Director & Founder of
Progressive Therapeutic Collective.
Qualifications:
Bachelor of Social Work & Counselling (Hons)
Master of Business Administration (Social Impact)
Graduate Australian Institute of Company Directors
Prince2 Project Management Professional
Professional roles:
Practice Director
Senior Counsellor
Senior Social Worker
Clinical Supervisor
In 2019, Sarah started Progressive Therapeutic Collective in response to a lack of genuinely trauma-infomed, integrative and progressive therapy practices. Progressive Therapeutic Collective works hard to be a genuine values-aligned practice, which deeply considers the systems and communities around it.
Sarah wants to create a practice that challenges the old cis-het white male, medicalised model of therapeutic support.
Building a practice that is professional, evidence-based and also incorporates other view points is Sarah’s passion!
As a relationship and individual therapist, Sarah has a passion for ALL relationship styles and sees them all as equal & valid. Non-monogamy and the conscious creation of different relationship structures is a key focus area.
Sarah has worked in counselling and social work for over 20 years and loves to work with other practitioners, to help them develop and strengthen their own practice. This is done through professional clinical supervision work and helping practitioners to start up their own private practice.
When Sarah isn't at work you will find her at the beach with therapy-assistant Raya, writing, reading, pottering in the garden and walking in the bush.
*Please note, Sarah does not work with issues relating to cognitive impairment such as Alzheimers and Dementia.
Sarah’s therapeutic focus areas:
Trauma
Gender & sexuality
Relationships (all relationship structures)
Abortion
Gynaecological & hormonal issues
Sex & kink
Neurodiversity
Professional and clinical development
Education & advocacy
Affordable & Accessible Therapy
Progressive Therapeutic Collective works hard to be a transparent, affordable and accessible service.
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 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.
