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Holly Bridges

Holly Bridges is an Australian therapist, keynote speaker and the author of the internationally acclaimed book, 'Reframe Your Thinking Around Autism'. Holly has developed the Autism Reframe Therapy program (A.R.T.) which incorporates the principles of co-design and brain plasticity. She works with families and practitioners, teaching techniques that help to restore the connection between the brain and nervous system. Holly has had a lifelong passion for working with the body/mind and she thrives on making complex psychology simple and available to people. This impulse to simplify and convey has taken her on a vast journey where she is now a leading light in autism therapy. Through her critically acclaimed book, Holly has helped thousands of parents, autists, educators and therapists perceive a more positive and helpful way of perceiving autism, and she has affected hundreds of families from the severely challenged and non-verbal, to adults with Asperger’s, right through to the very young with her simple and effective A.R.T. techniques.

Dissecting Autism terminology

Dissecting Autism terminology: Autism is confounding. The meaning of the term has gone through so many permutations in the last…

Promoting sleep and enhancing mood without drugs

Promoting sleep and enhancing mood without cannabis: While we often feel we have to use drugs and medicines to help…

In Ocean – an autistic perspective

In Ocean - an autistic perspective: I am a sea creature forced to live upon land. Although the earth has…

Potential new biomarker for ADHD and ASD

A new potential biomarker for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism has been found. “It’s often said that ‘the…

Learning from babies

What can we learn from babies and how the brain has an amazing ability to ‘get to work’ on autism…

Sensory overload insights

Processing everyday sensory information can be difficult for autistic people. Any of their senses may be over- or under-sensitive, or both, at…

A.R.T. training as internal martial arts

For people who train in the martial arts one of the most important principles is the relationship between stillness and…

Shifts in the clinical landscape of autism

Shifts in the clinical landscape of autism: The therapeutic setting has changed for autism. Where once we would treat and…

Autistic Inertia and Movement Disorders

Autistic Inertia and Movement Disorders: A recent (2021) study of Autism examined autistic inertia. The study looked at 32 autistic adults…

Polyvagal Theory and the potency of the dorsal state

So much of our focus on the Polyvagal Theory centres around honouring and validating the ventral vagus and teaching people…

Polyvagal Theory debunked : the myth of social engagement

In 1994, American neuroscientist Dr Stephen Porges proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian…

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