Who founded Family Constellations - Bert Hellinger?
The Founder of Family Constellations is Bert Hellinger.
Bert Hellinger was a German psychotherapist and family therapist who was a former Catholic priest. His time in Zulu land as a priest informed him of family grouping, loyalties and what is required for a healthy sense of belonging for the group and for the individuals within it.
He left the priesthood to become a family therapist. Hellinger developed this method from the mid 1990’s while working with families as a family therapist. As a family therapist Hellinger took this knowledge along with that of many former therapeutic approaches and found that when he asked people to set up their issue through people in the group that it appeared to tap into the underlying dynamics of the family system to which they belonged and that information became available and the constellation could evolve to show new possibilities.
Family Constellations is a dynamic therapy that continues to evolve, as is evident if you look at Hellinger’s earlier and his more recent work. However, the basic principles of the work remain the same. Bert Hellinger died in 2019 and continued to practice and teach world wide into his eighties. Since the launch of his first book, “Acknowledging What is,” in the nineteen nighties, his unique method of working with the energy in family systems has spread throughout Europe, America and Asia and more recently Australia.
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Bert Hellinger, Founder of Family Constellations
From Bert Hellinger to Yildiz Sethi in Australia
Bert Hellinger is widely known as the founder and major developer of Family Constellations, a systemic approach that explores how unresolved family patterns, loyalties, exclusions and generational trauma may continue to affect people in the present.
His work has influenced practitioners around the world and remains the foundation of modern Family Constellations practice.
In Australia, Yildiz Sethi has carried this work forward through private sessions, workshops and practitioner training. Yildiz and Satish Sethi trained in the Hellinger tradition and completed Bert Hellinger’s training in 2007. Their work now integrates Family Constellations with counselling, hypnotherapy, trauma-informed practice, neuroscience, epigenetics and brief therapeutic methods.
Yildiz practicing Family Constellations in Australia
Yildiz Sethi is one of Australia’s most experienced Family Constellations facilitators and trainers. She has been in private practice since 2000 and brings together Family Constellations, counselling, hypnotherapy, trauma-informed practice and her own therapeutic developments, including Rapid Core Healing and Emotional Mind Integration.
For people who are new to Family Constellations, Yildiz offers private sessions online and in person. For practitioners and serious students, she offers comprehensive online Family Constellations training with Satish Sethi through the Healing From the Roots program.