About Matt Semsar
Revamp Psychology is led by Matt Semsar, a Registered Psychologist and SIRA-approved provider in New South Wales. The practice focuses exclusively on psychological treatment for people recovering from workplace injuries and motor vehicle accidents, including those with active Workers Compensation (WorkCover) and CTP claims.
Services are delivered primarily via telehealth across NSW, making treatment accessible to clients regardless of location, transport capacity, or physical limitations following injury. In-person appointments are available in Strathfield for clients who are able to attend.
Clinical focus and approach
Matt works exclusively within the injury and compensation context — not as a generalist psychologist, but as a clinician with a specific and sustained focus on the intersection of psychological distress, injury recovery, persistent pain, and the demands of navigating compensation systems.
This focus is grounded in an extensive background in injury management spanning over a decade, working across the personal injury and workplace rehabilitation sector alongside clinical practice — and further supported by a postgraduate qualification in occupational health and safety. This formal grounding in occupational systems, workplace injury causation, and the legislative and regulatory context of worker rehabilitation is something most psychologists working in this space do not bring to their clinical work.
Effective psychological treatment within WorkCover and CTP systems requires more than addressing symptoms in isolation. It requires an understanding of how the compensation process itself affects recovery — including the psychological weight of claim uncertainty, the impact of medico-legal processes, the disruption to work identity and routine, and the secondary stressors that arise when recovery takes longer than expected. Matt's clinical approach takes all of these factors seriously, and is further informed by his own experience navigating a workplace injury — something that grounds his understanding of what injured workers actually go through.
Treatment is structured, evidence-based, and recovery-focused. Clinical approaches are tailored to the individual's presentation and rehabilitation context, and may include CBT, ACT, EMDR, PGAP, and pain neuroscience education, used where clinically appropriate.
Areas of clinical specialisation
Within the injury recovery context, Matt has particular clinical experience and training in the following areas:
- Trauma-focused therapy and EMDR — for psychological distress, post-traumatic stress responses, and avoidance following injury or accident. Matt has formal training and applied clinical experience in EMDR, used where clinically appropriate as part of an individualised treatment plan.
- Pain management psychology — for persistent or chronic pain following injury, including fear-avoidance, functional decline, and the psychological dimensions of prolonged pain. Matt is a certified provider of the Progressive Goal Attainment Program (PGAP), one of the few evidence-based programs specifically designed for disability prevention in injury and compensation contexts.
- Tinnitus — psychological therapy for tinnitus-related distress, including tinnitus arising from workplace noise exposure, acoustic trauma, and injury. Treatment draws on CBT for tinnitus, ACT, TRT-informed principles, and mindfulness-based approaches.
- Adjustment and occupational disruption — for the identity, routine, and role disruption that commonly accompanies prolonged work absence, particularly in compensation contexts where recovery timelines are uncertain.
Registration and approval
The following details are provided for the reference of treating practitioners, insurers, and rehabilitation providers.
| AHPRA Registration | PSY0002620326 — Registered Psychologist |
| SIRA Approval | Provider No. 24705 — Approved provider under Workers Compensation and CTP schemes in NSW |
Working with referrers and treating teams
Matt accepts referrals from general practitioners, medical specialists, rehabilitation consultants, case managers, insurers, and via self-referral. For clients with active WorkCover or CTP claims, insurer approval is required prior to commencing treatment.
Where appropriate, Matt works collaboratively with the broader treating team — including GPs, physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, and rehabilitation consultants — to support coordinated, goal-directed recovery. Reporting is provided in accordance with scheme requirements and insurer expectations.
For referral and funding information, see the Workers Compensation and CTP page.
Clinician perspective
In the recording below, Matt appears as a guest psychologist discussing psychological injury recovery, the importance of early and transparent support, and how the compensation process affects recovery outcomes within WorkCover and CTP claims. The relevant segment begins at approximately 48 minutes.
Episode 3 — Behind the Claims Podcast, AusRehab.
Make an enquiry
To discuss a referral or make an appointment, call or email us directly. All enquiries are handled personally.