COUNSELLING — MATTHEW ZOLTAN
Matthew Zoltan is a counsellor based in Busselton working with clients from Bunbury, Margaret River, and Dunsborough. He works with trauma and persistent psychological patterns through the body, where understanding alone has not led to change.
Most people who arrive for counselling have already been in therapy. They’ve done the work, they understand themselves, and something still isn’t shifting. Matthew’s approach doesn’t add to that process. It goes underneath it, to what the body is holding that conversation alone hasn’t reached.
Matthew works directly with that level. Over 37 years of clinical work he has developed a specific way of reading what the body is holding as a person speaks and brings attention back to it.
This work is based on what is happening in your body, not just what can be explained in words. Most people arrive having already explained themselves thoroughly. What they haven’t done is come into direct contact with the feelings the body has been containing. That’s what this work addresses.
When someone speaks about the patterns or responses they’ve been trying to shift, the body displays what words cannot. What I pay attention to goes beyond the content of what you’re saying. It’s what the body is showing me as you say it, where you tighten, where you disconnect from what you’re expressing, what response is already present before you’ve finished the sentence.
This is often referred to as mind-body connection work. What it produces, more accurately, is reintegration. The body, the feelings and thought patterns come back into contact with each other until what has been separated completes. Not through analysis. Through direct felt experience, as it arises.
This work is based on what is happening in your body, not just what can be explained in words. Most people arrive having already explained themselves thoroughly. What they haven’t done is come into direct contact with the feelings the body has been containing. That’s what this work addresses.
When someone speaks about the patterns or responses they’ve been trying to shift, the body displays what words cannot. What I pay attention to goes beyond the content of what you’re saying. It’s what the body is showing me as you say it, where you tighten, where you disconnect from what you’re expressing, what response is already present before you’ve finished the sentence.
This is often referred to as mind-body connection work. What it produces, more accurately, is reintegration. The body, the feelings and thought patterns come back into contact with each other until what has been separated completes. Not through analysis. Through direct felt experience, as it arises.
Each session is one-on-one and typically around 90 minutes.
As you speak, I’m reading tone, pace, physical tension, and where you disconnect from what you’re expressing. This gives me more information than the content of what you’re saying.
Rather than following the story further, I bring your attention to what you’re actually feeling as you speak. The pressure in your chest. The constriction in your throat. The tension sitting in your gut. These aren’t incidental. They’re where the pattern is located.
Attention remains with the physical sensation rather than moving back into analysis. You’re not asked to interpret it or change it. The focus is on direct contact with what is already present.
When attention stays with sensation without interference, the body begins to complete what it’s been containing. Responses that have been held and repeated begin to resolve. Not through effort or reinterpretation. Through contact.
Time is allowed before the session closes for the shift to settle. What has moved in the body needs space to stabilise before the session ends.
Sessions may draw on deep tissue massage, regression or natural meditation guidance where the work requires it. The structure follows what is present, not a fixed protocol.
Kyra could see her patterns clearly. She could trace them, name them, watch them run. What she couldn’t do was stop them. Feelings pushed down until they erupted, relationships she couldn’t navigate because she couldn’t locate what she was actually feeling, a cycle of high performance and collapse that nothing she’d tried had reached.
When she ended her most significant relationship playing out the exact pattern she’d been trying to break, the grief of it brought her to Matthew. The sessions gave her contact with what she’d been carrying rather than more tools to manage it. The patterns didn’t just slow — they resolved at the level where they lived.
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“I couldn’t connect my behaviours to how I felt so I had no idea what was driving me. Now I’m comfortable with my weaknesses and I’ve found they get stronger naturally on their own just by feeling them.”
This work is for people who are aware of their patterns and still experiencing them. Trauma is one expression of this. So are long-standing relational patterns, chronic stress responses, and a felt sense of something unresolved that has never been fully named.
You’ve done significant work on yourself but something still isn’t resolved
You understand your patterns clearly but they continue to run
You’re not looking for more analysis, you’re looking for something to actually shift
You sense there is something in the body that hasn’t yet completed
Persistent emotional reactivity. Responses under pressure that repeat despite full awareness. A background level of physical tension that doesn’t settle. A mental load that doesn’t switch off. Recurring dynamics in relationships or work that insight alone hasn’t shifted.
This isn’t a structured program with a defined timeline, and it doesn’t involve strategies, reframing, or cognitive tools. The focus is on direct contact with what the body is holding.
Some people notice clear shifts early, particularly where self-awareness is already high. Others work gradually over time. There’s no fixed number of sessions. The process follows what is present and what you’re ready to work with.
Sessions are available in person in Busselton or online.
Duration is typically around 90–120 minutes.
90 – 120 MIN
A detailed understanding of what is present and how it is being held in the body, with the first stage of direct work. This session establishes the foundation for everything that follows.
$600 to $800
4 TO 6 SESSIONS
Sustained work and integration over time, structured to the individual. For people who are ready to work consistently and go further than a single session allows.
$2,400 to $4,800
90 TO 120 MINS, MONTHLY OR AS NEEDED
Continued work for people already engaged in the process who want to maintain momentum and integration over a longer period.
$600 to $800
Yes. A new client form is completed 48 hours before your first session. The session itself begins with what is present on the day.
Yes, for clients across Australia and internationally.
No. Sessions are not covered by private health insurance.
Yes. For interstate or international clients, prepayment confirms the initial session. This applies to the first session only.
If you understand your patterns and aren’t experiencing change, and you’re open to working directly with what you feel in the body, this is likely relevant. If you’re uncertain, contact enquiries@mattzoltan.com.
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