At birth, every child loves their parents and grandparents. Even if their father died or abandoned the mother, the helpless baby's heart radiates love. Infants' emotional sensors are so sensitive and empathetic that they feel their elders' secret heartbreaks. As long as we breathe, the heart remembers and stirs impulses in resonance with these archaic wounds. Years later, many adults find themselves acting out self-limiting and self-destructive behaviors. Others enjoy fulfilling and loving lives...except for a few persistent patterns that cannot be broken.

When mothers and daughters turn against (or away from) each other, or depression takes hold, a marriage breaks down, a perplexing symptom afflicts the body - in fact when nearly any problem overwhelms us - our grandparents' sorrows live in the memory of the heart.

Every Constellation begins with a real person and pressing personal issue. The process reveals with stunning specificity how our difficulties today are unconsciously connected with events from before we were born. With this revelation, the cells in your body respond. Afterward, the issue finds its own way towards a positive resolution.

The Constellation experience provides life-changing insight into the hidden roots of many common problems:

• Mother - Daughter Hostility or Indifference
• Addiction
• Sibling estrangements
• Burdened Children (Eating Disorders, ADHD, Self-injury)
• Difficulty earning, managing, or saving money
• Child custody conflicts
• Chronic loneliness.
• Physical symptoms

Constellations are especially effective when the circumstances of your problems change, but the fundamental pattern remains the same. It's not about changing what you think. A Constellation heals the part of the wounded Self that "thinks you."

About 80% of participants report afterwards that the issue has eased or even resolved completely. Full resolution of a particular issue can take months to unfold, but the release itself occurs in a profound moment of insight. Despite years of sorrow and pain, a broken heart can heal in one beat.

Dr. Cohen works with groups, individual sessions, and by telephone or Skype. Please email him with questions or to schedule an individual session. His professional rate is $150/hour.

About Dan and Constellations

Dr. Dan Booth Cohen is certified as a Trainer and Constellator by the German Association for Systemic Constellations (DGfS). He holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Saybrook University. He received his training in the Constellation approach directly from Bert Hellinger and many of the world’s leading trainers including Gunthard Weber, Hunter Beaumont, Albrecht Mahr, Eva Madelung, Jakob Schneider, Francesca Mason Boring, Harald Hohnen and Stephan Hausner.

After receiving a Bachelors degree in History of Science from Connecticut College and an MBA from Boston University, he became a founding partner of Pequod Associates, Inc. which grew to become the leading provider of energy and water conservation engineering services in the United States. He and his partner sold the company to Equitable Resources (EQT) in 1996.

In 1980, he provided strategic planning services to the Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the fourth lineal successor to J. Robert Oppenheimer. The following year, he became a founding member of the City of Cambridge Peace Commission. In 1983, he walked the length of the West Bank with the Bethlehem Peace Pilgrims. Later, he was Co-Director of the Boston chapter of Children of War and led international peace exchanges between German and Jewish-American teens. For the past 6 years, he has taught the wisdom of Constellations to a group of lifers at Bay State Correctional Center.

Click here for an essay on Dan's personal history.

Dr. Dan Booth Cohen is not licensed to practice psychology in Massachusetts. Constellations are a process for expanding understanding and awareness. They are not a diagnostic or treatment method for any psychological condition or disorder. Please consult a licensed professional if you require such services.

The Constellation process was originated by Virginia Satir and refined by the German-born Bert Hellinger. Today, thousands of practitioners worldwide are adapting and expanding the Constellation experience.