Position Yourself for Healing your Family System With One Easy Move

What if one small shift could unlock generations of healing?

Family Constellation work offers this possibility—a gentle, powerful path to transform stuck family patterns and open space for new beginnings.

What Is Family Constellation?

Family Constellation is a therapeutic approach developed by Bert Hellinger. It explores the unseen dynamics in family systems that often carry unspoken pain, unresolved trauma, and inherited beliefs. These hidden forces can shape our relationships, choices, and emotional wellbeing—often without us realizing it.

Through experiential and phenomenological work, Family Constellation helps us see the “bigger picture”: where loyalties, exclusions, and entanglements may be creating emotional blocks. By acknowledging what is

, and giving every member a place, we invite balance and flow back into the system.

How It Helps Family Dynamics

When one person steps into a healing process, it can impact the entire family system. Here’s how:

 • Restoring Order: Family systems function best when there’s a natural hierarchy and roles are respected. Constellation work reveals when these roles are confused—like when a child takes on a parent’s emotional burden—and helps restore clarity.

 • Releasing Inherited Pain: We often carry emotions or behaviors that originated in earlier generations. Family Constellation gently uncovers these threads, allowing for release and new ways of relating.

 • Making the Invisible Visible: Unconscious patterns like abandonment, guilt, or estrangement can keep families stuck. When we see them in a constellation, we begin to move beyond blame and into understanding.

 • Creating Movement: Like in the image above, one movement—one gesture of acknowledgment—can shift an entire dynamic. It’s not about fixing others, but positioning yourself differently in the system, with compassion.

An Invitation to Healing

You don’t need your whole family to participate in order to experience change. Just as one domino standing upright interrupts the chain reaction, your presence, intention, and insight can shift the pattern.

If you’re feeling stuck in repeated conflicts, emotional disconnection, or inherited burdens, Family Constellation may offer the perspective and healing you’re seeking.

Ready to take one simple step toward healing?

Reach out to learn more about how Family Constellation can support your personal and relational growth.

I'm Patrizia Nader, a trauma-informed therapist based in San Anselmo and offering therapy across California. I provide culturally sensitive space for individuals, couples, families and children navigating trauma, anxiety, relationship challenges or major life transitions. My mission is to support generational healing and transformation.