Who Can Benefit from Family Constellations Therapy?
You might understandably assume that a therapy such as Family Constellations would only be chosen by “hippies” and “yogis”, but this therapy has been endorsed by British scientist Rupert Sheldrake, was recently supported by American Psychological Association published literature and is beneficial to people of all walks of life. I’ve facilitated Family Constellations for surgeons, Wall Street bankers, actors, models, lawyers and, of course, plenty of hippies and yogis too!
The truth is almost anybody could benefit from doing at least one Family Constellations process in their life. The insight gained is far beyond anything you’ll gain from conventional talk therapy, since it works with the family systemic subconscious mind, and not just the story you’ve been telling yourself about how things are. Whilst your story and perspective is of course important and your experience valid, it can only ever be one side of a far more complex narrative - one which we readily and gracefully explore through this work.
If you’re wondering if you have any reason to do a Family Constellations then take a look at these questions and see if any apply to you or your family..
Early Trauma questions
Did something traumatic happen while your mother was pregnant with you? Was she highly anxious, depressed or stressed?
Were your parents having difficulties in their relationship during the pregnancy?
Did you experience a difficult birth? Were you born prematurely?
Did your mother experience postpartum depression?
Were you separated from your mother shortly after birth?
Were you adopted?
Did you experience a trauma or a separation from your mother during the first three years of life?
Were you or your mother ever hospitalized and forced to be apart (maybe in an incubator or medical procure or mother needed to have surgery or experienced a complication from pregnancy etc.)
Did your mother experience a trauma or emotional turmoil during your first three year years of life?
Did your mother lose a child or pregnancy before you were born?
Was your mother’s attention pulled to a trauma involving one of your siblings? (i.e. late-term miscarriage, stillbirth, death or medical emergency?)
Family history questions
Who died early?
Who left?
Who was abandoned, isolated, or excluded from the family?
Who was adopted or who gave a child up fro adoption?
Who died in childbirth?
Who had a stillbirth, miscarriage or abortion?
Who committed suicide?
Who committed a serious crime?
Who experienced a significant trauma or suffered a catastrophic event?
Who lost their home or possessions and had difficulty recovering?
Who suffered in war?
Who died in or participated in the holocaust or some other genocide?
Who was murdered?
Who murdered someone or felt responsible for someone’s death or misfortune?
Who hurt, cheated or took advantage of someone?
Who profited from another’s loss?
Who was wrongly accused?
Who was jailed or institutionalised?
Who had a physical, emotional or mental disability?
Which parent or grandparent had a significant relationship prior to getting married, and what happened?
Was someone deeply hurt by another?
If any of these stir anything up in you, then there is certainly something to work with!
