Family System Constellations is a therapeutic approach that acknowledges how a family’s history can influence individuals, often unconsciously shaping their behaviors and struggles. It expands the focus beyond individual healing to encompass the entire family system, recognizing the interconnectedness of family members. The Family System Constellation method reveals the hidden dynamics within families and ancestral lineages – the unconscious loyalties, generational trauma, and relational entanglements that shape your life. In a constellation, with compassion and respect for you and your family system, we untangle what doesn’t belong to you so you can reconnect with your authentic self and move forward with greater freedom.

Why Choose Constellation Work?

  • Break Free from Inherited Patterns
    Release limiting beliefs and behaviors rooted in your family system.

  • Heal Relationships
    Restore balance in your relationships—with parents, children, partners, or yourself.

  • Find Belonging and Peace
    Understand your rightful place within your family and life itself.

  • Experience Deep Insight
    Gain insight into the factors contributing to your systemic relationships and the wisdom of the family soul.

Constellation work supports individuals facing:

  • Repeating relationship or career challenges
  • Depression, anxiety, or chronic emotional pain
  • Family estrangement or loss
  • Adoption or complex family histories

The Core Principles: Belonging and Balance

At the heart of this work is the understanding that every member of a family—living or deceased—has a place in the system. When someone is forgotten, excluded, or burdened with the pain of others, it can create imbalances that echo through generations. These imbalances may manifest in your life as emotional struggles, physical symptoms, relationship issues, or a feeling of being stuck. Constellations help restore order, belonging, and balance to the system.

What Happens in a Constellation?

Whether in a group setting or private session, the process begins with a question or issue you’d like to explore—something that feels heavy, confusing, or persistent.

In a group workshop you briefly describe the issue without going into a lot of detail. With the facilitator’s guidance, you choose people from the group to represent key family members or concepts relevant to your inquiry like “depression” or “your free voice”. These representatives are placed in a physical space to form a living map of your family system. What unfolds is often surprising. As representatives tune into the field, unconscious dynamics emerge—loyalties, blockages, hidden grief. The facilitator gently guides the process, bringing movement and insight that allow healing to occur.

In a one-on-one session the same dynamics are explored using figurines, floor markers, or guided visualizations.

How It Works

Family Constellations tap into what’s often called the “knowing field”—a deeper intelligence that holds the memory of the system as a whole. This field allows us to access information beyond ordinary awareness. By working on the soul-level, rather than engaging the mind or the personality, constellation work creates space for reconciliation, understanding, and release. By seeing the bigger picture—and honoring what was—we’re free to live more fully in the present.

Schedule a Constellation

  • Group-Supported Constellations
    If you would like for your constellation to be supported by community, where aspects of your family system will be represented by members of the group, submit the Constellation Questionnaire and then email Maris for scheduling. Two hours are set aside for these sessions but many constellations will come to a natural close in less time, at which point the session will come to a close. The rate is for the constellation and not the time frame.

  • Private 1:1 Sessions
    In these sessions objects will serve as representatives for your family system, or alternatively we do a “mind’s eye” constellation. Two hours is set aside for these sessions but many constellations will come to a natural close in less time, at which point the session will come to a close. The rate is for the constellation and not the time frame. To schedule a constellation, fill out the Constellation Questionnaire and then schedule an appointment using the link below.

Constellation Quesionnaire & Informed Consent Schedule a 1:1 Constellation