About A.R.T. 

Anxiety Reframe Technique

A deeply transformative approach to strengthening the nervous system - and connecting more deeply with the wisdom of the body.

Co-Design

A.R.T. is a co-designed process that restores relationship with the self. It creates a connection to personal safety and internal coherence -  that begins to open a strong, quiet confidence.

This private shift improves self-agency, personal boundaries, communication, sensory resilience, self-reliance, attention, memory and focus.  The work is subtle, steady and profound.

Compassionate Self-Mastery

Created by Australian therapist Holly Bridges, A.R.T. seeks to meet the gap between neurodivergent needs and intelligence - and existing therapeutic approaches.

Drawing on lived experience, as well as academic studies, Holly has created an internationally recognised, deeply transformative practice, that not only meets  people 'where they are at', but provides a way to bring the nervous system into previously unknown states of peace and safety.

This gentle yet profound work, can be life-changing and is applicable to anyone who is experiencing shut-down, disconnection and disassociation.

AR.T. does not expect or require foundational capacity and so is accessible for people with low interoception, low verbal capacity and low capacity to connect with, and articulate, emotional narratives.

These capacities can be  strengthened and enhanced through the A.R.T. process, and often individuals then can more easily connect with other modalities (ie OT, Speech, Psychology).

Based on Polyvagal Theory, Integral Theory, Humanistic and Developmental Psychology, Somatic Therapies and Neuroplasticity - A.R.T. invites a way of knowing the body that becomes a deeply compassionate level of self-mastery.

Where the individual has been used to continual hijacking from a dysregulated nervous system, they become attuned and accustomed to states of safety; greater levels of harmony; as well as self - and co-regulation.

System Integrity

With A.R.T., we watch a 'new hero' emerge, as the identification with a constrained nervous system expands into a wider and more robust capacity to tolerate and respond to perceived stress and discomfort.

This is done with a high regard for the intelligence of the neurodivergent mind; attention to social justice; and a profound submission to the sophistication of the nervous system and its ability to know how to realign - given the right conditions.

This highly delicate and integrated way of working means we don't need to cajole, or ask people conform or perform. A.R.T. seeks to build internal agency and personal sovereignty. 

Whoever you are.

Who A.R.T. Supports

A.R.T. is suitable for anyone who wants greater self-alignment. 

Gentle enough for:

Children, teens and adults with -

Autistic inertia or catatonia-like states

ADHD paralysis

Shutdown, freeze or collapse

Chronic overwhelm, withdrawal or mutism

Early trauma, PTSD

Early, infant surgeries

In-utero distress 

Difficulty with sensing, feeling, or connecting

A sense of being separate from yourself

Difficulties with anger and self-restraint

Nervous sytem complaints

Neuropathy

and More