Jelena Richter
Family Constellations
Practitioner

I offer 1:1 family constellations sessions online or in person in a  setting similar to counselling to heal personal issues. 

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Family constellations offer a safe method to explore and heal personal patterns and blockages.

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Often, when we look for therapy, we are longing to change or heal long standing patterns that we don't seem to be able to shift and that impact our lives in a way that can be experienced as blocking. The family constellations approach looks as those patterns in connection to the past - our own as well as patterns that have been passed down our family system - and aims to uncover and transform them.

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Family Constellations therapy is a systemic approach. This means that we will look at any personal issues or problems under a systemic lens, so we will connect them to the larger system that the person- who is longing for change- is embedded in. This can be the family system of origin as well as cultural or organisational systems. 

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We all belong to a family system and all family systems can hold traumas and experiences that have been endured by previous generations and got unconsciously carried forward. In this way they continue to impact our lives today. We can use constellations techniques to look back at our family and ancestors with love and respect, as we are curious about the hardships they might have endured and understand that damaging actions might have been carried out, not out of lack of love, but most likely out of lack of resources. We are aiming to see what could not been seen at the time and even though we cannot change the past, we can change the picture we hold about it in our hearts to restore the flow of love and bring strength back to us as well as the whole system. 

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In a 1:1 session we use a couple of different techniques to look at images the client holds about an issue they would like to work on. This can be in form of guided visualisation, using markers on the floor or a board with figures (a bit like a sandtray) where we invite different people or elements related to the issue in.

With this we can surface how these people or elements relate to and feel about each other and bring disruptions and repetitive patterns to light. In a solution focused way we then concentrate on new perspectives that the client can form and feel and carry forward to create new healthier patterns. 

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In a group session we have a group of people that can represent the people/elements related to the issue and invite them to position themselves in the room and directly report back how the issue and others impact them. Through the process they will find a position were they feel more at ease and the issue gets resolved. Both in group and 1:1 work we use healing sentences to surface issues and transform them. 

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