Frequently asked questions

Family Constellation Therapy was developed in the 1970's by German therapist Bert Hellinger. He discovered a host of principles and orders that happen in the network of relationships through many generations. 

A family constellation is like a living genogram (family tree), set up by a particular family member. Through your intention, as the client, to work on a specific issue, personal or familial, the family energy field becomes present.  You will be guided to see and release family dynamics that are causing blocks using the Bert Hellinger and Consciousness Medicine format. Ultimately rather than being driven by unconscious fear we become empowered to live guided by awareness and love. A resolved connection with the family lineage helps us access strength, support, and pride that is available through the ancestral line.

Sessions are one hour long and can be accessed as a stand-alone session or repeated as necessary. 

This therapy can help you to gain insight into your bonding pattern within your family and ancestral system and where it originates.  Through this awareness, the power of your intention and the methodology of Family Constellation, disrupted patterns may be acknowledged, respected and brought to rest.

A further movement is now possible which is to connect to Life which has come through your ancestral line, in an unburdened way. This is an access point to the fullness of Life that is available to you.  The ripple effects can be seen on many levels including physical, psychological, spiritual and emotional. 

The benefits of Family Constellations can be far reaching. Once healing has taken place at the root ancestral level a clearer path foward is possible in many domains. Even if the motivation is to help  on a family level, the biggest step a client can take is to do their own healing first. Within a family system an individual at this stage of healing lightens the burden felt within the entire system. 

Conditions that are likely to benefit include:

• Recovering energy where fatigue has been dominant
• Emotional patterns that are out of proportion to current events.
• Feeling blocked in life across many areas at once e.g. work, relationships, health, finances. This represents the same pattern affecting a broad range of contexts.
• Addictive patterns
• Unresolved grief
• Recurrent or chronic physical illness
• Relationship issues

Whether a client comes with a specific family issue they hope to resolve or to support their individual growth and well being, Family Constellation can resource you across these domains.

This method works without family members needing to be physically present.  By working in the 1:1 format of Family Constellation we can access the energy patterns running through the family system.  Individual clearing and repairing of those patterns and then re-aligning  towards health brings both personal and family line benefits. 

You may recognise a repeat of generational fates that include a particular flavour of trauma. However, we can also track disturbances without needing to know all the facts. Secrets, shames or events that have resulted in ancestors being 'cast out' can have the biggest grip on suceeding generations. A loyalty to the suffering is a subconscious effort to re-include them. You may not know the facts or details but are living the burden of such trauma.

Through your spoken words and also your body language and inner images of self this internal map we carry from our family of origin becomes apparent. We can track disturbances without needing to know all the facts. Using 'Movements of the Family Soul' as a framework we can recognise and repair these disturbances. 

The orientation of this work is towards a connection to the fullness of life by strengthening the roots of your connection to the empowered family soul field.