Constellations for Trauma & Past Issues
FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS FOR TRAUMA, INTERGENERATIONAL PATTERNS, AND THE MISTAKES THAT KEEP REPEATINGWhen the Past
Won’t Stay in the Past
Something keeps happening. A pattern, a feeling, a déjà vu. You’ve tried to change it. And yet here it is again.
Maybe it’s trauma from your own past that still shapes the present – painful memories, difficult experiences, fears and avoidances that can hide from view but are pulling the strings. Maybe you keep making the same mistakes, hitting the same walls again and again, and you can’t understand why. You’re not doing it on purpose, in face you’ve been working hard to make a change, and yet that familiar sense of “I’m here again” returns.
Maybe it’s something that came before you, in your ancestry, that you seem to have inherited without choosing to. It can be your parents’ stuff, or your parents’ parents’ stuff (or any caregivers along the way). Indeed, the latest research suggests that irrespective of the patterns they have passed on, intergenerational trauma can impact DNA by causing chemical modifications known as epigenetic changes.
Sometimes the most persistent pain is the hardest to explain. You know something's there, in the way you react, in what keeps happening, in the weight you carry. But knowing it hasn't shifted it. Systemic Family Constellations for trauma works differently – creating the conditions for new understanding, new perspectives, and a genuine release of what's been held. A chance to relate differently, move differently, and finally carve your own path.
With Family Constellations for trauma,
we’ll help you to:
Understand the deeper roots of patterns that have felt impossible to shift
Release trauma – your own, and what may have been passed down through the generations
Find freedom from the mistakes that keep repeating, however hard you've tried to change
Develop greater compassion for yourself and for those who shaped you
Make peace with your past, without minimising it or being defined by it
Break the chain – so what's been passed down stops here, with you
Find a new relationship with the people and experiences that have shaped you
Feel freer in your body, your choices, and the life you're living
Rediscover a sense of lightness and possibility you may not have felt in years
Write a new chapter that belongs entirely to you
How Family Constellations London for Trauma
Can Help
Much of what keeps us tied to the past operates beneath our conscious awareness. We are each part of many systems at once – our family history, our current relationships, our deeply held beliefs about ourselves and what’s possible for us. Trauma and difficult experiences leave imprints within these systems, often long before we’re aware of them, shaping how we feel, how we relate, and how we move through the world in ways that are surprisingly resistant to change.
And sometimes what we’re carrying isn’t even originally ours. Intergenerational trauma – grief, loss or wounding passed silently down through the family line – can shape us in ways we’ve never been able to name. Of course, this can be in the way we were nurtured in early childhood, mirrored through the generations. Research in epigenetics is also supporting what Family Constellations practitioners have long observed: that we can carry the imprint of our ancestors’ unresolved experiences.
We’ll create the space to map out what’s been happening, finding a new understanding and perspective. From this comes real change – a release of what’s been held, a new relationship with the past, a sense of finally being free to move forward. Not just understanding what’s been driving things, but genuinely feeling free of it.
Systemic Family Constellations can help with:
Trauma from your own past that still casts a shadow
Difficult childhood experiences that talking about hasn’t fully shifted
Making the same mistakes again and again – in relationships, in work, in the choices you make
A sense of history repeating – the same issues coming up, however hard you try
Intergenerational trauma – patterns and wounds that echo across family lines
Unresolved grief, loss, or the weight of significant past events
A persistent sense of not belonging, not being enough, or not feeling safe
The impact of adoption, separation, estrangement, or family rupture
Old hurts that are still driving fear, avoidance or self-protection in the present
INTRODUCING WANDA HILLER
Why work with me
Trauma-informed practice isn't an add-on for me – it's central to everything I do. I understand how unresolved trauma lives in the body, how it shapes our nervous system responses, and why it so often resists approaches that work only at the level of the conscious mind and conversation.
My training spans systemic family Constellations, somatic practice, EFT, NLP and many years of traditional acupuncture – all of which have deepened my understanding of how the body holds what the mind carries. I train continuously with the best in the field, with a particular focus on neurobiology, nervous system regulation and trauma-informed approaches.
Systemic Family Constellations for trauma is work I feel especially called to, because I've seen again and again how it reaches what nothing else has, and gives people a genuine sense of freedom from what they've been carrying.
I offer sessions from my dedicated Constellation space in my home in the Hampstead area (NW3). There are great transport links (you can see more here). All sessions are also available online, so wherever you are in the UK or internationally, we can work together.
If you're not sure whether this is right for you, a discovery call is a good place to start.
FREE DISCOVERY CALLI offer a free 20-minute discovery call – no hard sell, just a conversation to see if it feels like the best way forward for you.
Family Constellations London: In-person sessions in North West London in the Hampstead area (NW3) and online UK-wide & internationally