Constellations
A History of Family Constellations
Where constellations come from, how they grew, and what the grounded version looks like today.
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You are more than what shows at first glance
Cecilia Altieri is a psychotherapist and systemic facilitator, practising since 2010. The four practitioners alongside her train facilitators as well as seeing clients. Together they work with individuals, couples and families, in therapy and in family constellations, online across time zones in six languages, and in person in Brussels.
Who we work with
No two people arrive with the same thing
You, on your own
Something in your body won’t settle, and nothing quite explains it. A low feeling that has outlasted any reason for it. A loss you can’t set down, or a decision you’re standing in front of.
You and your partner
The same argument from every angle, and it never resolves. A distance neither of you chose. A rupture you want to come back from.
Your family
Something in the family nobody talks about. A parent or a sibling you can’t reach. A weight that seems older than you are.
Your child
Ordinary things are too much for them. Big feelings that arrive faster than words for them. A change at home that landed hardest on them. Something you can see and can’t name.
If we knew how to act differently, we would.
We read each of these as part of a living system, a family, a history, and look for where the strain actually sits.
How we work
Beyond the Individual
The whole picture
What feels like your problem alone is usually held in place by something wider, your family, your history, the people you belong to. Every kind of work here starts by looking at the system, not only at you inside it.
Body and mind together
Not all of the work happens through words. In therapy, conversation is often where we begin. In listening therapy, we work through sound and how your nervous system responds to it. In a constellation, we make the system visible and work with what happens as you see and experience it. What you notice in your body is part of the information we work with. Sometimes seeing and experiencing something differently is where change begins.
Four ways to welcome you
We start where you are
A session, a workshop, listening therapy, or the training. We can help you find the right approach.
Private sessions
Work with the system around you, privately
Individual, couple and family therapy, your own constellation, or listening therapy. You choose the kind of session and the practitioner, or you write to us to arrange it.
Find your practitionerFor adults and children
Settle the nervous system
A listening programme that works with the body’s own ability to settle, informed by research on how the nervous system senses safety. Delivered one to one by a certified provider of the Safe and Sound Protocol.
See if listening therapy fitsIn a group
Experience a constellation, live, together
A single evening online, or a weekend in Brussels. You can bring your own question, or take part in someone else's constellation as a representative. No prior experience needed.
See the next datesBecome a facilitator
Train in family constellations, in depth
3 years to qualify as a systemic facilitator, or a single semester to learn one part of it. One method, the Al-Ma Model, taught whole.
See what the training coversOur team
Meet the practitioners
Whatever brings you here, you’ll work with an experienced practitioner who sees the wider system.
The practice
What you can count on
2010
Practising, online from the start
2012
An online constellation platform
6
Working languages across the practice
20
Groups taught since 2017
Not sure where to start?
You’re welcome to write before deciding anything, for general information or with a question of your own.
ContactResources
Read your way in
Short, plain notes on constellations, therapy and the nervous system. Some answer the questions people bring before they book anything, and some are simply what interests us.
Sessions
What to expect in a session
What actually happens in a one-to-one session, from the first question to the last ten minutes.
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Sessions
How to prepare for a session
Three sentences are enough preparation. A therapist explains which three, and what to leave out.
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Workshops
What to expect in a workshop
Across one day you may be yourself, someone's grandmother, and a quiet witness.
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