MEANING OF FAMILY CONSTELLATION THERAPY
Family constellation is a type of therapy that is useful in revealing how the family dynamics influence our life. Our family has a deep routed impact on our personality, our behavior, thought patterns, interactions with people around and also on our attachment styles in our relationships. A disturbed childhood or a childhood that undergoes trauma can create long lasting impacts on our adult life.
Childhood trauma can lead to following
- Lack of confidence
- Constant depressive thoughts
- Unexplained physical impacts
- Not getting success in your ventures
- Marital and relationship issues
- Fear and phobias
Hence it is essential to solve these issues at the earliest and prevent them from creating influence on your adult life that you are undergoing in the present. This is where the Family constellation therapy helps.
HOW DOES FAMILY CONSTELLATION HELP
The family constellation therapy is important to free you from the negative impacts that your family had on you since your childhood. A number of psychological issues arise because of the deep routed issues that have been buried in your subconscious mind since your childhood. You may not even realize that your anger issues, stress and depression, low self esteem, eating disorders, etc have actual the origin in your childhood. With family constellation you can have the following benefits
- Deep routed feelings that are the cause of your life issues will come to the surface and you can realize and get clarity about the reasons why you go through the life issues
- You will start being more considerate about the family members and people around and will be able to understand their perspective without being emotionally vulnerable
- The Family constellation therapy is designed to remove your problem from the roots and prevent it from resurfacing and even if it resurfaces you will be more conscious and can avoid it from creating impact on your life
- The person taking family constellation will be freed from the repetitive cycles of negative events in their life
- You will start understanding your relationship dynamics and will have more positive interactions
- Since you mind will be more at peace you will have better success at your work place
- The additional benefit of Family constellation is that it need not have multiple sessions, it can be completed in one session. Only if client needs will another be conducted.
- Family constellations have also have shown impacts on addictions and people have gained freedom from addictions
For whom is family constellation therapy useful?
Family constellation therapy is generally applied to adults as this is mainly a method of healing your old memories, traumas, issues that you have faced in your childhood. This therapy is particularly useful if you are going through the following life issues
- constant unknown stress and depression
- If you feel that you are not able to succeed in life or you are finding something weighing you down in your path of success
- If you face addictions or eating disorders
- Relationships seem difficult and you are getting stuck in the same pattern of relationships
- You have unresolved traumas
- In case you have disturbed sleep patterns and frequent nightmares
- You are not able to understand people around and also feel no one understands you.
FAQ for family constellation therapy
A. Do I need to personally come for a family constellation therapy? Ans. No. Family constellation therapy can be provided online or in person
B. Does family constellation help in getting freedom from phobias? Ans. Yes this therapy definitely helps you to gain insight into your childhood dynamics and when the reason for your fear or phobia is known you can take further therapy to free yourself from it
C. Do I have to come with my family for this therapy? Ans. No this is a session where you do not have to come with your family. This is just meant for you to express your feelings and understand your own family dynamics. Presence of your family members can in fact hinder this process.So you do not have to bring any of your family members with you, at least not in the therapy room.
D. How many sessions of family constellation would I need? Ans. Generally a four hour session of family constellation can be sufficient for you to benefit from it. However in some cases more than one session will be needed to get complete advantage.
E. Do I have to share any confidential information during this session? Ans. The session is purely meant for your benefit where you can express your feelings and emotions. In this process if you feel like sharing a life event that is a secret and has a deep routed impact on yourself then you should for your own healing and benefit. Since this information will be kept completely confidential there should be no issues to you in sharing the same with the person conducting the therapy session.
F. Do I need to have a genogram or family tree that is names and information of each member of family before this session? Ans. No this is not needed