PROGRESSIVE THERAPEUTIC COLLECTIVE
Counselling, sex therapy & education
Doing therapy differently across Australia
About us
The Progressive Therapeutic Collective comprises of counsellors, sex therapists and a remedial massage therapist.
We work to provide a service that is progressive, affordable, accessible and welcoming of everyone in our community.
Our services are available online across Australia.
Our values
In our practice, our values are everything.
They guide how we engage with our work, our clients and the world around us.
Our values aren't token gestures; we take them seriously.
We discuss our values regularly, to ensure we're aligning with them and to identify areas for improvement.
We believe it's our values and therapeutic approach that makes us who we are.
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We are a white-owned business and we acknowledge the privilege we hold. We are committed to dismantling those systems that uphold white privilege. We also know we must always be listening and learning
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We are neurodiverse-owned business. we adapt our environment as much as we can. Our therapies/support strategies are for support not to change / modify the ND person or 'make them fit'
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We are proudly pro-choice and support reproductive choice for all people.
We provide abortion counselling.
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We work hard to make our practice accessible to everyone. We are currently working through a disability audit to identify gaps in our practice.
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We are a practice where you can explore sex, intimacy, kink, desire and all forms of connection without shame or judgement. We are a SW'r welcoming practice.
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We seek to understand how aspects of a person's social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege.
Meet the Team
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Sarah Newbold (she/her)
Practice Director, Counsellor & Social Worker
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Dan (they/them)
Counsellor
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Jen (she/her)
Sexologist & Counsellor
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Kit (they/them)
Project Lead, Administration & Education
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Raya
Therapy-Assistant (in training)
Individual & Relationship Counselling
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All counselling sessions are 50 minutes.
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Individual:
$105 (financial challenge), increasing to $115 from February 2024
$150 (standard), increasing to $155 from February 2024Relationships Therapy:
2 people $220, increasing to $230 from February 2024
3 people $330, increasing to $340 from February 2024
4 people $440, increasing to $450 from February 2024 -
NDIS
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NDIS counselling sessions are 50 minutes
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$150 per session, plus travel.
Increasing to $155 plus travel from 1 February 2024
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Sex & Kink Therapy
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All counselling sessions are 50 minutes
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Individual counselling:
$105 (financial challenge), increasing to $115 from 1 February 2024
$150 (standard), increasing to $155 from 1 February 2024 -
Non-monogamy education
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Non-monogamy education sessions are 90 minutes
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$260 per session.
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Remedial Massage
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All massages are one hour
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Trauma-aware remedial massage:
$105 (financial challenge)
$150 (standard) -
Education
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Our education is conducted on an ‘as needs’ basis
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Education rates are individually negotiated
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Gender-affirming guides to gynaecological health
At Progressive Therapeutic Collective, we’re passionate about equitable health.
Gender diverse people do not resonate with a lot of the information made available on gynaecological health. This is often because the information is written in very gendered language, causing mild discomfort to signficant & distressing dysphoria.
We are creating pages that outline common gynaecological issues and conditions; writing them in a way that we hope is gender-affirming and gender-neutral.
Upcoming groups & workshops
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Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder Lived Experience Group
May 2024
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Partners of People Living with PMDD Group
May 2024
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Autism + ADHD (AuDHD) Lived Experience Group
May 2024
Working to make counselling more affordable
We offer a two-tier payment structure for our individual counselling & sex therapy.
We don’t require a concession card; we operate on a system on trust. If you tell us that’s what you can afford, we believe you.
Based in Boorloo, working across this land called Australia
PTC is grateful to live and work on the Whadjuk Noongar Boodja.
This is land never ceded.
We work across this land called Australia, via encrypted telehealth.
We don’t offer face-to-face appointments.