REGRESSION THERAPY — MATTHEW ZOLTAN
Matthew Zoltan is a regression therapist based in Busselton working in-person with clients from Bunbury, Margaret River, and Dunsborough. He works with persistent felt disturbances, recurring emotional states and responses without a clear source, where other trauma-focused approaches have not reached full resolution.
Most people who arrive for regression have already done significant work on themselves. They’ve been in therapy, possibly tried EMDR, somatic approaches or other trauma-focused methods. Something has moved but not resolved. What remains is a felt disturbance they can sense but cannot locate through memory or analysis. They know something is driving their responses but can’t get to it by thinking about it.
Regression work begins where thought stops. It goes into what the body is carrying at the level where the disturbance actually lives, beneath what is consciously accessible, and allows what has been separated to surface and reintegrate.
Trauma is rarely held as a clear cognitive memory. It lives as a felt disturbance, a persistent response without an obvious source, a state that activates before there is time to think. Most approaches try to reach it through memory or analysis. That’s working at the wrong level.
I begin with what is felt in the body. As attention moves into the physical sensations connected to the disturbance, what has been held below conscious awareness becomes accessible. Associated memories and experiences surface not because they are prompted but because the body is finally in contact with what it has been carrying. As the felt experience and the cognitive memory reconnect, the person is no longer separated from what happened. That’s when resolution becomes possible.
This is mind-body reintegration at its deepest level. What has been split off and carried as a persistent disturbance comes back into contact with the whole. Not through being guided to a memory. Through sustained contact with what is physically present until what has been separated reintegrates.
Trauma is rarely held as a clear cognitive memory. It lives as a felt disturbance, a persistent response without an obvious source, a state that activates before there is time to think. Most approaches try to reach it through memory or analysis. That’s working at the wrong level.
I begin with what is felt in the body. As attention moves into the physical sensations connected to the disturbance, what has been held below conscious awareness becomes accessible. Associated memories and experiences surface not because they are prompted but because the body is finally in contact with what it has been carrying. As the felt experience and the cognitive memory reconnect, the person is no longer separated from what happened. That’s when resolution becomes possible.
This is mind-body reintegration at its deepest level. What has been split off and carried as a persistent disturbance comes back into contact with the whole. Not through being guided to a memory. Through sustained contact with what is physically present until what has been separated reintegrates.
The session begins with what you are physically experiencing, not with what you remember or can explain. I bring attention to where disturbance is present in the body, how it feels, where it sits and what activates it. This is the entry point into the work.
As attention stays with the physical sensation rather than moving into analysis, what has been held below conscious awareness begins to become accessible. The body starts to make contact with what it has been carrying at the level where it actually lives.
Associated memories, feelings, and experiences emerge from the body as tension releases. This is not guided or suggested. What surfaces is what the body has been containing. The process follows the body, not a protocol.
As the felt disturbance and the associated cognitive memory come back into contact with each other, the person is no longer separated from what happened. The split that has been maintaining the persistent response begins to close.
As the session closes, time is allowed for what has moved to settle. Reintegration is not an event. It continues after the session ends and deepens across subsequent sessions.
Nick had a sense his whole life that something was not right, without being able to locate what it was. Meditation, psychological treatment, exercise — none of it reached the root. He came to Matthew in crisis with no other option. Through regression work, the memories of abuse he hadn’t been able to access returned. His words: his whole life clicked into place. In one moment everything realigned from what had been an illusion to what was true and real. He has remained that way since. Sexuality, confidence, emotional regulation, creative capacity, financial stability — every area of his life changed after the pain underneath it was finally reached.
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“The moment I first got back my memories of my abuse, it was as if my whole life clicked into place all of a sudden. In one moment my whole being realigned from what was an illusion to what was true and real. I have stayed this way ever since.”
This work is for people who sense something is driving their responses that they cannot reach through thought or analysis.
A persistent emotional response or recurring state without a clear source
Trauma-focused approaches have moved something but not resolved it
You understand what happened. Your body responds as though it hasn’t.
You know something is there but thinking about it doesn’t help
Persistent anxiety or fear responses. Recurring emotional states that activate without obvious cause. Dissociation or a felt sense of being disconnected from yourself. Responses connected to early experience that other approaches haven’t fully reached. A felt disturbance that has been present so long it feels like part of who you are. These are the kinds of disturbances that regression work addresses, where what is driving the response has never been fully contacted.
Regression work is not a single session process. What has been held for years does not surface and resolve in one sitting. The first session establishes contact with what is present and begins the process. Subsequent sessions deepen that contact and allow what has been held to surface and reintegrate progressively.
There is no fixed number of sessions. The process follows what the body is ready to bring forward and what you are ready to work with. Matthew will give you a clear sense of what the work requires after the initial session.
Sessions are available in person in Busselton or online.
Duration is typically around 90–120 minutes.
90 – 120 MIN
A complete assessment of what is present, how it is being held in the body and what the process requires. The first stage of direct work.
$600 to $800
4 TO 6 SESSIONS
Four to six sessions of sustained work allowing what has been held to surface and reintegrate progressively, structured to what the individual requires.
$2,400 to $4,800
90 TO 120 MINS, MONTHLY OR AS NEEDED
Continued work for people already in the process who want to maintain momentum and integration over time.
$600 to $800
A client form is completed 48 hours before your first session. The session itself begins with what is physically present on the day.
Yes, for clients across Australia and internationally.
No. These sessions are not covered by private health insurance or Medicare. Payment is made directly at the time of booking.
For interstate and international clients, prepayment confirms the initial session.
Most trauma-focused approaches work through memory, analysis or cognitive reprocessing. This work begins with what is felt in the body rather than what is remembered. Associated memories surface from the body as tension is contacted rather than being accessed directly through thought. That’s what allows it to reach what other approaches haven’t.
If you have a persistent felt disturbance or recurring response that analysis and other approaches haven’t resolved and you’re ready to work directly with what the body is carrying, this is likely relevant. If you’re not sure or have questions, contact us enquiries@mattzoltan.com.
Counselling works with patterns and responses that are consciously accessible. Regression goes deeper, into what the body is carrying that isn’t accessible through conscious memory or analysis. In practice the two often work together across a series of sessions.
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