Family Constellations

If it keeps repeating, it’s asking to be seen

You keep finding yourself in the same emotional or relationship patterns — no matter how much work you’ve done. The roots may lie deeper than your own life experience.

Family Constellations helps you uncover the hidden, inherited, and unconscious patterns shaping your life, so you can:

Understand what you’re carrying
Release what belongs to others
Move forward with clarity, freedom, and choice

You do not need to know your full family history to benefit.

Why people come to Family Constellations?

You might feel drawn to this work if you are:
• Stuck in repeating relationship patterns
• Feeling disconnected or “out of place”
• Struggling with anxiety or low mood
• Carrying grief, trauma, or complex family history
• Navigating adoption, estrangement, or blended families
• Feeling blocked in career, creativity, or life direction
• Wondering why talk therapy or self-work hasn’t shifted things

What happens in a session

Family Constellations is a therapeutic approach that reveals deep, often unconscious family dynamics. Many struggles — anxiety, depression, addiction, recurring relationship difficulties — can be connected to unresolved trauma or inherited patterns carried across generations.

During a session:

Representatives (people or objects) stand in for family members
Spatial arrangements and guided observation reveal hidden patterns
Emotional truths emerge, offering clarity, insight, and release

The result is a deeper understanding of yourself, your relationships, and the unseen influences shaping your life.

Benefits people often experience

Relief from repetitive emotional or relational cycles
Insight into long-standing patterns
Stronger boundaries and healthier relationships
Feeling grounded, connected, and emotionally resourced
Greater clarity, freedom, and personal choice

The benefits of participating as a representative

You do not need to bring your own issue to receive something meaningful from the workshop.

Representatives are often deeply impacted by the process and may experience:
• Personal insight into their own life patterns
• Emotional shifts and unexpected clarity
• A deeper understanding of relationships and family dynamics
• Greater compassion, connection, and self-awareness
• The experience of contributing to healing within a supportive group field

Often the roles we are drawn into resonate with something within our own lives.

Issue Holder Places

Each workshop includes 2 issue-holder places for those wishing to explore a personal issue through their own constellation.

About Sian Palmer

Sian trained in Family Constellations with Tanja Meyburgh in 2015. She offers both focused constellation sessions and integrates this approach into her psychotherapy practice and group workshops.