Healing from Intergenerational Trauma
Find Out How Family Constellations Can Transform Your Life
Watch this powerful video on intergenerational trauma, epigenetics, and family constellations. Discover how these concepts can transform your healing journey. It’s FREE and ready for you to watch right now.
Unpacking the Feelings You Can’t Explain
Do you have symptoms, feelings, core beliefs, or behavioral patterns that are difficult to understand in the context of your own life and history?
Maybe you’ve experienced a deep, recurring fear but can’t readily make sense of its origins. Or maybe you feel stuck, repeating the same patterns as your parents, but all the therapy you’ve tried so far hasn’t freed you from these unhealthy dynamics.
It can feel incredibly frustrating to do endless amounts of personal development work, only to remain stuck and in the dark about your feelings and behaviors.
Take the first step toward understanding and healing by booking your session today.
The Importance of Healing the Past
When we don’t feel peace and acceptance about our past, it’s hard to feel peace in our present. It becomes nearly impossible to forgive and accept ourselves if we can’t forgive and accept the people who birthed us and shaped who we are, including our parents and ancestors.
To offer deep, fast, and transformative work on these issues, I use family constellations, a powerful group model developed by Bert Hellinger.
This approach helps clients uncover and unpack traumas and blocks within their family system that can date back generations. At the core of this work is the theory of systemic entanglements: to belong in our family system, we unconsciously bind ourselves to our parents' patterns, beliefs, and behaviors, ancestors, excluded family members, and unprocessed traumatic events. We do this unconsciously, as an act of love, even though it’s ultimately unhealthy.
How Healing Happens in Family Constellations
🔍 Insight into Unconscious Family Systemic Patterns
We uncover the unconscious dynamics, loyalties, and trauma we've inherited from our family system.
🌳 Embodied, Experiential Processing of Intergenerational Trauma
Through phenomenological role play and symbolic representation, we process the intergenerational pain and trauma we carry.
When we can more clearly see the baggage that was passed down to our grandparents and parents that are stored in our own unconscious, we are filled with compassion and gratitude for all that we were given, despite the pain that the family system has endured.
This allows us to accept, forgive and make peace with who we are and where we come from. It also helps us to restore balance in the family system, by setting healthy boundaries, understanding clearly that it is not our job to carry our parents’ and ancestors’ pain for them, and that we can accept the gifts from our lineage while leaving the trauma with the members who were forced to endure it.
Break Free from Generational Patterns with Family Constellations
Sign up to watch the video explaining intergenerational trauma, epigenetics, and the theory and practice of family constellations work. You’ll also receive emails about in-person family constellation workshops and virtual constellation groups.
Meet Rebecca, Your Guide to Healing and Transformation
REBECCA STONE. LCSW, CHT, C-EFT Founder, Clinical Director
Hi, I'm Rebecca, and I'm honored to walk beside you as you begin this healing journey.
Imagine having a seasoned trauma and couples therapist helping you unpack your core beliefs and childhood wounds, guiding you through trauma processing to heal your triggers and pain, supporting you in sharing deeply and vulnerably with your loved ones, leading you through powerful exercises to foster self-compassion and self-forgiveness, and providing you with critical psychoeducation on all forms of trauma and their many layers.
This is what I bring to this workshop. As a specialist in trauma healing and systemic family constellations work, I am passionate about helping clients access their resilience and increase their capacity for love and compassion. In addition to my family constellations training, my work is influenced by advanced training in evidence-based models, including EMDR, Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), teaching for a somatic therapy institute (The Hakomi Institute), and restorative justice. My expertise in these modalities ensures a powerful experience that accelerates insight, healing, and more satisfying relationships with yourself and your family.
What Clients Are Saying About the Program
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“My family constellation was the most transformative healing I have ever done. Being confronted with the unconscious pain and loyalties I carry from my parents was a huge epiphane. It explains so much about my current symptoms and toxic behaviors that I hadn’t seen before. My core wounds and beliefs come up during times of tension but when things are good I don’t believe the lies I’ve told myself my entire life. And now I have the tools to work with myself in my triggered place. Rebecca was so insightful and caring. She truly has a gift. This program saved my life.”
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“You'll uncover things you didn't even know were there. You learn so much about yourself and your situation that is empowering to finding your own path along this dark journey. Navigating this healing journey with Rebecca and the other members of the group feels like you have a guide walking with you along a path that is illuminated by the warm glow of path lights. A trail that once felt very dark, cold, scary and lonely now feels more inviting, peaceful, hopeful and doable.”
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“Through my work with Rebecca and family constellations work, I have learned that my partner’s cheating was an effort to heal his own wounds. To remain loyal to his father and his father’s behavior. To validate his own worth. It happened in spite of me, not because of me. There was no deficit in me that made this happen- not one.”
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“Rebecca's program helps you understand that you are not broken, you are not alone, and there is a way forward if you want to find one.”
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“The family constellations revealed deeply buried wounds that affected my behavior for 25 years. I was not able to recognize the issues on my own but now with awareness I can address the root of my problems rather than just treat the symptoms.”
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“I feel so much gratitude, just overwhelming gratitude for Rebecca's work, her insight and her ability to heal.”
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Our Healing Programs
Virtual Groups
In my hour-long weekly constellations groups, two clients will have the opportunity to explore their intergenerational burdens and entanglements. Other group members will represent the client’s family members and can also experience profound insight and healing. The group operates on a monthly basis, so participants commit to four sessions for $150.
Day-long Workshops
My day-long workshops take place in Stone Ridge, Catskills. Six to eight participants can attend as clients in each workshop, and everyone will have the opportunity to serve as a representative. These workshops are often profound and life-changing, offering a great way to experience this transformative work. Sign up to receive updates about upcoming workshops.
4-Day Healing Retreat
Join us for an intensive 4-day retreat in Stone Ridge, Catskills. Experience 20 hours of deep trauma healing with family constellations, plus alternative practices like sound healing, yoga, and cacao ceremony. Enjoy follow-up support with 2 virtual group check-ins to ensure your healing journey is fully integrated. This transformative experience fosters profound insight and lasting change.
About The Retreat
I created a retreat format to do deep healing work because I knew that healing would be much more effective and efficient in an intensive group model. Weekly therapy can be effective, but clients spend half of their session reporting on their pain from the week and barely get into deep healing work due to time constraints.
When symptoms feel stuck, embarking on a slow, tedious process that takes years is not the way forward. Clients need intensive and fast work to break through the barrier of stuckness, confusion, and despair. They need to heal now and trust that they are capable of healing and will not be stuck in unhealthy patterns and feelings forever. The longer they stay stuck in fear and helplessness, the deeper their entrenched patterns become.
The retreats I run have been nothing short of magical. In only 4 days, clients report magical transformation. Some say their constellation was the deepest, most insightful healing work they have ever done in their lives.
In addition to 5 hours a day of family constellations group work, we also do other group healing activities such as sound healing, cacao ceremony, ecstatic dance, yoga, qi gong, and sacred song and fire ceremonies.
The retreat programming totals 20 hours of deep, therapeutic work plus an additional 6 hours of alternative spiritual healing modalities, totaling 26 hours of transformational work.This is comparable to 6 months of therapy sessions but takes clients much further in this intensive format.
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Focused on deep trauma processing using family constellations group work. Each client gets at least one constellation, plus experiential healing and learning as a representative for other clients’ constellations.
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Other healing modalities to foster connection, self-reflection and vulnerability include:
Cacao ceremony,
sound healing,
yoga,
qi gong,
5 rhythms,
sacred song and sharing circles.
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Accompanying journal writing prompts to deepen your exploration and healing
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Join a Whatsapp group to facilitate ongoing conversation and support in the community. You never have to feel isolated and alone when the retreat is over. You have a sense of deep bonding with the community you’ve created and you can turn to each other for ongoing support.
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2 follow up virtual group check-ins once the retreat is over to support integration. The important part of any immersive, transformative experience is to ensure that it is fully integrated into daily life and honored. Returning home from an experience that alters how you understand yourself, your unconscious and the world around you requires ongoing maintenance and work. Together as a group, we will continue to do integration practices and to share in community to ensure that the insight and transformations actually stick!
What You’ll Get in the Retreat:
Here’s Exactly What You Can Experience During Our Time Together:
💔 Healing from personal trauma
An event, memory, or family of origin dynamics.
⏳ Addressing Unspoken Intergenerational Trauma
That blocks love and weighs down your family system.
Of negative self-beliefs and accessing self-love.
🌱 Getting to the Root
🕵️♀️ Uncovering Hidden Loyalties & Family Secret
To your parents and their baggage, understanding their impact on your family system and the unconscious suffering you may have absorbed.
Retrieving the traumatized child part that was split off and abandoned during childhood.
🧸 Inner Child Work
🔍 Exploring the Impact of Collective Trauma
Including violence and migration, on your family dynamics.
Start Your Healing Journey Today
Take the first step toward transforming your life and healing from intergenerational trauma. Fill out the form to book your free 15-minute call, and we’ll be in touch soon!
Please note: Our services are available only to residents of New York State.