What does my work entail?
At the core of Family Constellation work is the understanding that everyone belongs within a wider family system. We are connected not only to our immediate relationships, but also to those who came before us.
Many traditional cultures honour this connection through ceremonies and rituals that acknowledge ancestors and their place within the family lineage. While many Western cultures have moved away from these traditions, our ancestral heritage can still influence our lives in both subtle and significant ways. (If you’d like to read more about the history of Family Constellation work, you can do so here.)
Family Constellation work draws from a range of different modalities, including those listed below, to help uncover inherited strengths and patterns, reclaim what supports growth and healing, and release what no longer serves.
Epigenetics
Is the study of trauma and how it affects generations of people in the same family through gene transfer. It explores how life experiences and environmental influences may affect the expression of these genes across generations, offering interesting perspectives on inherited emotional and behavioural patterns. Through this work, we are able to bring those issues to light and work to heal them.
Ancestral Healing
Family Constellation work deals with Ancestral ties and lineages. Uncovering imbalances in the system helps to heal not only the person receiving a session but everyone in their family system. Read more here.
Loss and Grieving
So many clients are able to address their grief and loss by working with it in a very tangible way and communicating with those they’ve lost. This may include intuitive or mediumship-based elements where meaningful messages and connections are explored.
Somatic Experiencing
We use body awareness to notice where stress, tension or emotional responses may be held and use those signals as information within the healing process.
Inner Child Work
Beliefs and views that have been formed in childhood can often affect us into adulthood. When we speak to the inner child within us and integrate our childhood selves we are able to regain our childhood innocence and exuberance for life.
Internal Family Systems
It is useful for us to work with parts of ourselves that may need attention. Parts that may need more attention, understanding or integration.