Individual & Couples Family Constellations
For individual sessions, once you are scheduled, you will be emailed and asked to complete an intake questionnaire. Your answers give us a picture of you, your issue, and your family system, which allows us to prepare for facilitating your constellation.
When we meet, via zoom or in-person, we will first clarify your issue and any relevant history. Then, using your feelings, words, and images, we walk you through a process that will enable you to both identify and disentangle from any inherited trauma dynamics playing out in your life.
You viscerally experience how the flow of love and health has not only been disrupted by trauma but also unconsciously repeated in your issue. You see how tragic events deeply affected family members and how that has been expressed in their behaviors and limitations. You understand that what happened in your family was not about or because of you but what happened to them before you. This new embodied understanding of a bigger picture frees you to shift your issue and repair and restore that flow. You can authentically write a new story and receive more good.
In couples’ sessions, both partners have their own constellation while the other observes. We find that most often, the issues that couples cannot work through have their roots in unconscious systemic entanglements. What is inherited and incomplete from behind partners shows up in negative dynamics between them. When you see what your partner is carrying from their system and they see what you’ve been unconsciously expressing from yours, it frees you both to connect and communicate at a new level of compassion and understanding.
Demo Family Constellations
Throughout our next Embodied Inherited Trauma Training (Jan – Oct 2024), we are including monthly demo classes in which Bruce and I demonstrate facilitating family constellations while students observe via zoom. For these Sunday demo constellations, we work with clients exactly as we would in private but at a reduced rate ($125). Students do not participate or interrupt; only watch in order to learn.
Please reach out to me if you are interested at leahkalishma@gmail.com.
Schedule a zoom or in-person session
818-667-3689/ leahkalishma@gmail.com
Family Constellations are facilitated by Leah and Bruce Kalish. Embodiment Process sessions are with Leah.
Embodiment Process Sessions
Embodiment Process sessions are deeply relaxing, regulating, and restorative. The work integrates somatic coaching and hands-on biodynamic support to enable you to be with and metabolize unprocessed mental-emotional material held in the body. These sessions focus on slowing down, tuning into the body and being with what you notice arising. This shift of focus to sensation rather than thought enables you to disengage from your usual pathways of perception. Like when in Nature, your awareness expands and attunes to the greater landscape of your inner experience – to the flow of life and health in you and through you. You are able to soften, widen out, and observe the compressed stress and trauma imprints from past experiences without attaching or reacting to them. The layers of no longer needed protection as well as incomplete emotion can unwind, express, and complete into the fluid of your body’s wholeness.
Sounds simple and should be since we are essentially metabolic miracles. Our systems absolutely can process emotions and fears as it does food and air; the trick is loosening the grip of the mind. The thoughts that grip that incomplete emotion are also from the past experiences when it really was too much, too painful, annihilating, shameful, etc. So, it takes something to learn how to stay neutral and out of the mind and meaning, such that repetitive reactions, negative thought or behavior patterns can actually dissolve.
In the down-regulated orientation of embodiment sessions, you truly can differentiate from what is not yours, complete what is, and align with your deeper somatic intelligence. You will notice greater resilience, self-awareness, new possibilities, and ease.
Single Sessions:
Family Constellation* – $250
Embodiment Session – $130
Packages:
Constellation* + 3 Embodiment Sessions – $500
Series of 3 Embodiment Sessions – $330
Series of 5 Embodiment Sessions – $475
Schedule a session
in person or via phone/skype
818-667-3689/ leahkalishma@gmail.com
*Note: Family Constellations are facilitated by me and my husband, Bruce Kalish, unless he is unavailable. We have worked together as a team since we were certified by Mark Wolynn in 2009.
Mark Wolynn teaching about inherited family trauma
Mark Wolynn
Founder/Director, Family Constellation Institute
Author of It Didn’t Start with You
