Heal The Wounds That Didn’t Start With You
Systemic Family Constellations illuminates what lives beneath the surface, making healing possible across generations
Sound Like You?
“I feel stuck in the same emotional patterns, no matter how much work I do.”
“I don’t understand why I keep sabotaging myself when things start going well.”
“There’s a pattern in my family that keeps repeating—and I don’t want to pass it on.”
“Even though my childhood wasn’t that bad, I still feel this deep sadness I can’t explain.”
“I feel blocked around money, love, or belonging, like something invisible is in the way.”
“I know something happened in my lineage, but no one talks about it.”
You’re not imagining it. Some of what you carry might not have started with you. Family Constellation work can help illuminate—and heal—those roots.
This Approach Is For You If You’re:
Doing inner work but still feel stuck or confused by certain emotional patterns.
Navigating complex family relationships, estrangement, or generational wounds.
Experiencing guilt, fear, or pressure in your role within your family — and want relief
Tired of feeling dysregulated and want a bigger capacity to navigate life with ease
Often “the one who feels everything” in your family or the one trying to hold it all together.
Want to better understand inherited patterns around money, love, success, or belonging.
Feel called to explore the unseen dynamics shaping your health, relationships, or purpose.
You feel loyal to your family, but it comes at the cost of your own joy, freedom, or wellbeing.
You feel disconnected from your roots or uncertain about where you belong.
You’re aware of events like war, immigration, untimely death, suicide, adoption, or significant loss in your family history and wonder how they might still be affecting you.
“It actually made a lot of sense. Seeing everything laid out like that helped me stop overthinking — it wasn’t all just in my head anymore. Luana somehow picked up on things I hadn’t even told her, which was kind of mad. After the session, I felt way calmer in my body and had a much better understanding of what happened and what I want to do moving forward.” — Charles T.
What Are Systemic Family Constellations?
Systemic Constellations are a therapeutic method that helps uncover and resolve unconscious loyalties, inherited trauma, relationship issues and entanglements in your current affairs, family or ancestral line.
This approach was developed by Bert Hellinger, a German psychotherapist who spent over 15 years living and working with the Zulu people in South Africa. Deeply influenced by their collective, ancestral worldview and the philosophy of Ubuntu, Hellinger later integrated these insights with Western psychotherapy—particularly drawing from Carl Jung’s work on archetypes and the collective unconscious.
In this work, we don't pathologize—we observe. We bring hidden patterns to light and allow new, healing movements to emerge through embodied awareness and compassionate witnessing.
This isn’t about blaming your family—it’s about liberating your lineage.
“When a trauma is too overwhelming, it can bypass the individual and live on in the family system. It can then express itself in future generations as symptoms we struggle to explain.”
— Mark Wolynn, It Didn’t Start With You
As a trauma-trained practitioner, I bring over a decade of experience supporting clients through intergenerational healing.
My approach to Systemic Family Constellations is grounded in somatic awareness, nervous system regulation, spirituality, and deep respect for ancestral lineage. I bring over a decade of experience in trauma healing and have completed a year-long intensive training in Systemic Family Constellations, which deepened my ability to hold this work with skill, nuance, and care. Whether you're looking to heal trauma in your family line, strengthen your sense of belonging, or break cycles for future generations, I create a safe, reverent space for the truths that want to be seen.
A Clear Path To Transforming Your Family System
Complimentary Call
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We’ll discuss what’s showing up in your life and whether constellation work might support the shifts you’re seeking.
Private or Group Sessions
Whether in a 1:1 or group setting, we’ll map out your family system, identify entanglements, and create space for resolution and integration
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Integration and Embodiment
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Walk forward with a renewed sense of groundedness, connection, and alignment—no longer held back by what came before
What Makes This Different?
Heal The Root Of Common Illness
Address and heal common issues like autoimmune diseases, chronic tension, sleep wake cycles, digestion, depression, functional freeze, complex trauma, metabolism, relational challenges from the root instead of just dealing with the symptoms.
Each Session Includes
Part 1: Talk therapy and emotional regulation
Part 2: Co-regulating touch to support your body in growing a bigger capacity for life’s stressors.
Part 3: Skills Building to integrate your new way of being into your daily life.
A Warm Yet Directive Approach
As a Nervous System Specialist, not a traditional therapist, I take a more hands-on, body-oriented role. I’ll challenge you, guide you, and move you out of “story mode” to focus on actionable changes.
Highly Sensitive People Welcome
Most people I work with are highly sensitive individuals. Sensitive to noise, smells, textures, tones, peoples expressions. These can be signs of unresolved developmental trauma in the system. My approach is, we heal in underwhelm, not overwhelm.
Trauma Trained, Not Just Informed
With advanced training in Somatic Experiencing and somatic trauma therapies, I work directly with your nervous system to address deep-rooted patterns and create lasting change.
Relational Life Therapy
Using Terry Real’s transformative approach, I focus on relational dynamics like shame, grandiosity, and boundary failures—helping couples communicate and connect in healthier, more sustainable ways.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Regular sessions provide ongoing support over time, while an intensive is a focused, immersive experience designed to catalyze deep shifts in a short period. Intensives allow us to dedicate uninterrupted time to your healing, diving into somatic(mind-body), relational, and intergenerational work without the usual constraints of weekly sessions. Many people report breakthroughs in intensives that would take months to achieve with in weekly sessions because your system doesn’t have to reset into its old ways to do regular life between session, your system has more space for a total uninterrupted reset.
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My approach combines Somatic Experiencing, hands-on touch work (Stephen Terrell & Kathy Kain), experiential talk therapy, relational life therapy and family constellations, creating a unique, body-centered method for healing complex developmental trauma. This isn’t just about talking—it’s about working with your nervous system, emotions, and deeper patterns to create lasting, embodied change. Clients often describe it as the missing piece in their healing journey they wish they had found sooner.
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Somatic therapy might be right for you if you're looking for a holistic approach to healing that connects the mind and body. It's especially beneficial if you've experienced trauma, anxiety, or stress and have noticed physical symptoms like tension, fatigue, or chronic pain. If you're tired of talk therapy alone and want to explore how your body holds onto emotional experiences, somatic therapy can help you develop a deeper awareness of your body's sensations and responses.
Somatic therapy is also helpful if you're seeking to regulate your nervous system, improve emotional resilience, or build stronger self-awareness. It’s for those who are ready to engage in a process of healing that involves both mind and body, focusing on how to release stuck emotions and restore balance through body awareness and movement.
If you’re unsure, I suggest booking a free call and simply try an initial session, this way, you can have the experience and decide if it is for you or not.
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Session are tailored to each individual. With that said most of the demographic who chooses to work with me comes at a phase of life where they are beyond capacity and overwhelmed in some way. So this is where we start:
20-30 mins of talk therapy, emotional regulation and skill building
40 mins of Intentional touch work (online) or hands on co-regulating touch (in-person)5 mins to wrap up and share any observations or insights you may have.
This is a common way we start sessions, after. a few sessions you’ll start to report feeling more balanced in your life and when appropriate the format. of sessions can start to add more skills/experiences like specific experiential work, reflex integration, constellations mat work and so on.
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If you’re ready to address unresolved patterns, connect with your body, and move forward with more ease and confidence, this could be a great fit. Sessions are particularly helpful if you’ve felt stuck in traditional therapy, want faster progress, or are navigating major life transitions. If you’re unsure, I offer a complimentary 15 minute call to explore your needs and see if this is right for you.
"I came to Luana with chronic pain in my hips, feeling constantly stressed and always in 'go, go, go' mode. Through working with Luana, I learned how to incorporate mini de-stress moments into my day and check in with my body before pushing through. Luana helped me unravel deep-rooted patterns from childhood, like overfunctioning and overextending myself, linked to abandonment issues I knew I had but never fully understood the impact on my body and marriage. I feel more at ease in my work, my marriage, and especially in motherhood. I highly recommend Luana to anyone looking to reset their life and find happiness. Working with her truly transformed me!" - Kate M.
