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Genogram

A family tree that maps not only kinship but relationships, patterns and events across three generations.

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How it shows up in daily life

A great deal of what you take to be a personal trait — that you find it hard to ask for help, that you withdraw in conflict, that you’re always the responsible one — didn’t begin with you. It is a pattern that repeats in the family; it’s just that nobody ever drew it on paper.

What we do with it in therapy

We make the genogram together, in one longer session. Once the patterns are visible they lose some of their power: what was »just how it is« becomes something that began somewhere, once — and that can end with you.

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Genogram: what your family tree can tell you about yourself 11 min branja What a genogram reveals: patterns that repeat in a family across generations 11 min branja A Look into the Past: what happens in a 90-minute genogram session 13 min branja

See also

Pattern A sequence that repeats: cue, response, outcome — and then from the beginning again. Trust The willingness to be vulnerable without checking all the time. Phases of therapy The sequence the process usually follows: establishing safety, working through, integrating and ending.

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