--- title: "Cecilia Altieri · Therapist and family constellation facilitator" description: "Cecilia Altieri: psychotherapist, family-constellations practitioner, certified Safe and Sound Protocol provider, co-founder of EISEC. Practising since 2010." url: "https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/cecilia/" markdown_url: "https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/cecilia/index.md" lang: "en-GB" alternates: - { hreflang: "en", url: "https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/cecilia/" } - { hreflang: "es", url: "https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/biografia/" } - { hreflang: "nl", url: "https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/nl/cecilia/" } - { hreflang: "x-default", url: "https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/cecilia/" } --- Psychotherapist · SSP provider · Executive coach · Systemic facilitator · Trainer # If we knew how to act _differently_, we would. I work with the patterns that repeat, the grief that has nowhere to go, and the relationships that keep breaking in the same place, in therapy and in family constellations. How we work depends on what you bring; the pace is set by what your nervous system can hold. [Book](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/cecilia/#book) · [Who am I](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/cecilia/#bio) ![Cecilia Altieri](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/cecilia.webp) [Background ](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/cecilia/#bio) · [How I work ](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/cecilia/#practice) · [What I offer ](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/cecilia/#book) · [Longer story](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/cecilia/#story) Work with me ## One-to-one sessions, _listening therapy_ and group workshops At a glance - Therapy €155 individual €185 family or couple - Constellations €185 per session - Listening therapy On enquiry Safe and Sound Protocol - Languages English · Spanish · Portuguese online and in person in Brussels How booking works 1. 1Write a message below. 2. 2I read it and write back. 3. 3We find a time together. Therapy, constellations and listening therapy are all open. Cecilia arranges each one herself, so a message is the way in. ### How I help you You bring what is not shifting. I look at it from more than one direction: what is happening now, what your body is doing with it, the relationships around it, and the history it belongs to. From there I choose the way of working that fits, and I tell you what I am doing and why. You do not need to bring anyone with you. We can do this one to one, and it still moves the relationship. ### Who you are working with I am a psychotherapist, a facilitator of family constellations, and a certified listening therapy provider. I work with individuals, couples and families, in single sessions and in longer arcs, and I run group workshops in Brussels through the year. I do not rush to an interpretation, and I do not push for intensity. We decide together what happens next. I have practised since 2010, and through EISEC I train facilitators: the way I work with you is the way I teach others to work. ### Listening Therapy Specially treated music, listened to at home in short sessions, for a nervous system that needs a shift. On enquiry [Learn more](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/ssp/) ### Therapy For individuals, couples and families. For what feels difficult today, and for patterns that go back much longer. €155 individual · €185 family or couple [Enquire](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/cecilia/#booking-form) ### Constellations A way to make your situation visible, and take it from there. €185 [Enquire](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/cecilia/#booking-form) ### Workshops Working in a group, in Brussels through the year. From €260 [Browse dates](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/workshops/) ![Cecilia Altieri at dusk in a Cambridge college garden, chin resting on her hand](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/cecilia-cambridge.webp) Background ### More than fifteen years, and where I trained For more than fifteen years I have sat with people in the hardest parts of their lives. I began with three years of medicine and psychology, went on to read psychology at UNED, and took my Diploma in Coaching at the University of Cambridge. My training in family constellations came in Spain and Germany, at ISPAB in Munich under Ursula Franke-Bryson and Thomas Bryson. I co-founded EISEC, the institute where I train facilitators today. I have never stopped studying: what I learn, from neuroscience onwards, is tested against the people in front of me. Away from the consulting room, I play music and paint. Longer story ## Where my practice _came from_, and what runs through it all 1. 1 Medicine and psychology Three years at UROU. 2. 2 Psychology at UNED Continued formal study in psychology. 3. 3 Spain Trained in family constellations. 4. 4 Therapist, coach Began working as a systemic practitioner. 5. 5 Working since 2010 Seeing clients continuously ever since. 6. 6 A dedicated online space, 2012 Consulted on the space itself, having already worked with clients online from the start. 7. 7 Belgium Moved to Brussels and established a practice. 8. 8 Training facilitators, 2017 Taught the first training group. 9. 9 Cambridge coaching diploma Completed the Diploma in Coaching at the University of Cambridge. 10. 10 First certified Safe and Sound Protocol provider in Belgium Certified in 2020, after training in Polyvagal Theory with Deb Dana and Stephen Porges. 11. 11 EISEC Co-founded the institute with Simon, and wrote its three-year curriculum together. 12. 12 Twenty groups Taught since 2017. ![Cecilia Altieri in her practice](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/cecilia-therapy.webp) As a psychotherapist ### Listening that can also lead My starting point is client-centred: you set the direction, and I follow it carefully. That does not mean I only listen. I say what I see, I ask the question that has been waiting, and I am direct when that is what serves you. I work in talking therapy and in written exposure therapy, and when trauma is in the room the pacing changes: your body sets the speed, not the plan. Not every client needs the same method; you get the one that fits. ![An adult listening at home as part of the Safe and Sound Protocol](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/ssp-listening-home.webp) As an SSP provider ### The first certified provider in Belgium I am a Safe and Sound Protocol provider, certified through Unyte in 2020 and the first to be certified in Belgium. I trained with Deb Dana and Stephen Porges in Polyvagal Theory, the study of how the nervous system senses safety, and that understanding runs through all my trauma work. ![Cecilia Altieri teaching a small group](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/training-cecilia-teaching.webp) As a facilitator ### Training the practitioners you can book here I learned this work as a student in Spain and Germany, and I translated Ursula Franke-Bryson's books into Portuguese, carrying her work to practitioners in Brazil. Then I stepped to the front of the room. I have taught facilitators across continents. With Simon Maebe I co-founded EISEC, the European Institute for Systemic Education and Coaching, and I taught its first training group. We wrote the three-year curriculum together, so the training holds to the standard we set. [Explore the training →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/training/) ## In their words > Cecilia is a wonderful therapist, she is gentle and I felt totally safe at the therapy. Spela [Read more in Hugs →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/hugs/) > The work with you has moved and created the deepest of changes within me and my system. Nils [Read more in Hugs →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/hugs/) Notes ## Read _your way_ in Short, plain notes on constellations, and on the questions people ask before they book. [![](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/blog/prepare-session.webp)](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-to-prepare-for-a-session/) [Sessions](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-to-prepare-for-a-session/) [about 3 minutes](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-to-prepare-for-a-session/) ### [How to prepare for a session](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-to-prepare-for-a-session/) [Three sentences are enough preparation for a family constellations session. A psychotherapist explains which three, and what to leave out.](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-to-prepare-for-a-session/) [Read more](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/how-to-prepare-for-a-session/) [![](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/blog/history-family-constellations.webp)](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/history-of-family-constellations/) [The method](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/history-of-family-constellations/) [about 10 minutes](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/history-of-family-constellations/) ### [The history of family constellations](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/history-of-family-constellations/) [The method’s creator was a Hamburg psychiatry professor almost nobody names. The real history, with sources: Thea Schönfelder, Virginia Satir, movement therapy, and what Hellinger actually did.](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/history-of-family-constellations/) [Read more](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/history-of-family-constellations/) [![](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/images/blog/expect-session.webp)](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/what-to-expect-in-a-session/) [Sessions](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/what-to-expect-in-a-session/) [about 4 minutes](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/what-to-expect-in-a-session/) ### [What to expect in a session](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/what-to-expect-in-a-session/) [What actually happens in a one-to-one family constellations session, from the first question to the last ten minutes, told by a psychotherapist.](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/what-to-expect-in-a-session/) [Read more](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/blog/what-to-expect-in-a-session/) Ready when you are. [Start with a message →](https://www.ceciliaaltieri.com/cecilia/#booking-form) Enquire ## Start with a message Every booking starts with a message. Tell me what you are looking for, and I will write back with the right next step and a time that works. What is this about? 1 / 2 Fields marked \* are the ones we need. ### Thank you. Your message is with me, and I will write back. Every message comes to me, and I answer it myself. Scope and safety ## The right support at the _right time_ Sessions support change in how you live, relate and decide. They sit alongside medical and psychological care, and they do not replace it. If you are in crisis right now, or you are having thoughts of harming yourself, please turn first to your doctor, to a crisis line where you live, or to the emergency services. If you are being treated for a psychiatric condition, or you have questions about medication, that care belongs with your prescriber, and our sessions can run alongside it. 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