I’m Sarah Newbold (she/her), a counsellor, social worker, writer, and the founder of Progressive Therapeutic Counselling.

My work sits at the intersection of relationships, trauma, sexuality, grief, attachment, power, and the ways technology is reshaping human connection.

I’m particularly interested in the emotional realities emerging around AI intimacy, parasocial attachment, digital grief, online relational culture, and technologically mediated forms of care, desire, and belonging.

Much of the public conversation around AI relationships is either dismissive, alarmist, or overly simplistic. My approach is different.

I believe people deserve space to speak honestly about their emotional lives online without shame, ridicule, panic, or moral judgement.

That includes the complicated realities of loneliness, fantasy, attachment, erotic exploration, grief, dependency, identity, and the very human desire to feel seen and understood.

My work is trauma-informed, queer-affirming, kink-informed, neurodivergent-affirming, and grounded in both therapeutic practice and broader social and cultural analysis.

I believe technology is not replacing human psychology. It is revealing it.

As digital intimacy continues to evolve, people deserve thoughtful, emotionally intelligent support that can hold both the possibilities and the risks of these new relational worlds.