Non-Visible Disability and Long Term  Health Conditions

Hi I’m Allison Priestman. I am a white, slim, cis gendered woman; living and struggling with both my disability and my ableism. I have been working as an Embodied-Relational Therapist for over 20 years. I'm continually being woken up, challenged and nourished by my contact with clients, supervises and trainees. At this time of climate, diversity and equality crises, I’m interested in being part of a collective understanding of their interwoven causes. And part of a collective search for a way forward.I’m interested in creating training spaces from three-hour webinars to the two year-long residential Embodied- Relational Therapy training, which allow participants to drop deeply into themselves. Combining experiential learning with rigorous theoretical input. Supporting practitioners to relax into the complexities and paradoxes of working as a therapist. Of supporting work from the non-expert position.I'm re-running for the fourth time my Playing with Fire Online Course Oct 2024- June 2025. Exploring an Embodied, Relational, Intersectional and Wild Therapeutic Approach. How can working in an embodied, relational and wild way support the decolonisation of your practise?https://www.allisonpriestman.org/copy-of-playing-with-fireMore information to follow in the new year. Please note I will be running a series of Friday morning webinars in the Spring and Summer to act as tasters for the training.The next Embodied-Relational Therapy two year training begins in Juner 2025. It’s a robust, immersive, modular, residential training that will be run from Devon this year. I will be co-running the first year with Stephen Tame. For more information and the application documents please check out theEmbodied-Relational Therapy website. If you'd like to  know more about the Embodied-Relational Therapy  training check out this video.https://vimeo.com/498402917I’m creating a series of informative videos to communicate some of the ideas that inform my work. A video onworking with Erotic Chargecan be seen here.Thank you for reading, I hope you’re able to make it to one of my webinars or trainings, Allison

Allison Priestman

Drawing from Embodied- Relational Therapy to explore disability, illness, ableism, embodiment, and care.

What is the lived reality of people with hidden disability and long-term health conditions? How might we offer appropriate, empowering therapy? How can we be allies to our clients living with these experiences? I will offer an intersectional, disability lens, to explore some of the lived reality of hidden impairments - unpacking our own internalised ableism, the ableism of the therapy world and of embodied, somatic practices. Exploring if and how a disability lens may be helpful for us and our clients. Embodied-Relational Therapy has grown from an ablest, Body Psychotherapy tradition. It also has much to offer the exploration of what it is to be an embodied being. ERT offers a framework for understanding the complexity of being a body/mind/spirit. How conflicts within aspects of ourselves, our family system, and our wider culture can manifest in our embodiment. How can we support our clients to find resources within their embodied experience, when our bodies might be experienced as painful, problematic, and untrustworthy? Our bodies are also the site of difference, potential internalised shame and of being othered. I am not claiming to be an expert- I have my lived experience of hidden disability, for the past sixteen years, some understanding of the complexity and demands of day-to-day living. As well as over twenty years experience of working as a relational body psychotherapist. I will offer an open exploratory space for us as a group to explore some of the complexity, and challenges for both clients and therapists of working with this material. This webinar is for anyone who is curious and drawn. Any practitioner who experiences hidden disability and/or long-term health conditions is especially welcome. It’s mostly aimed at counsellors, psychotherapist and allied practitioners who are working with clients with a disability and/or long-term health conditions. Concessionary places available, <a href="mailto:allisonprirestman@gmail.com" title="mailto:allisonprirestman@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">please email me </a>to enquire, £35 .This webinar would also serve as a taster (alongside a face to face meeting) for the <a href="https://www.allisonpriestman.org/embodied-relational" title="https://www.allisonpriestman.org/embodied-relational" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Embodied-Relational Therapy</a> training starting June 2025. <a href="mailto:allisonprirestman@gmail.com?subject=Questions%20about%20the%20non-visible%20disability%20webinar" title="mailto:allisonprirestman@gmail.com?subject=Questions%20about%20the%20non-visible%20disability%20webinar" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Please be in touch</a> if you have any questions or access needs.Warmly, Allison.

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