Who We Are
Our faculty are all highly experienced trainers in systemic constellation work. The senior faculty being some of the most experienced practitioners in the world. We also work with experienced guest speakers and facilitators.
The Centre Directors
Hannah Cox
Hannah is the Operations Director at the Centre. She is a native of the West Country and currently lives in the beautiful city of Wells in Somerset. She has many years administrative experience, working mostly in academic institutions. She is also a Yoga and Meditation teacher and Naturopathic Nutrition Adviser. She discovered systemic constellations in 2018.
Gaye Donaldson (BACP)
Gaye is Principal Director of CSC having held the position of Managing Director for many years. She is the lead teacher of the Senior Teaching Faculty and, with faculty input, she also designs many of the Centre courses. She found constellation work in 1994 and has trained extensively in both family and organisational constellations. She teaches, facilitates workshops, and works as a systemic coach & consultant in film, theatre and other creative initiatives both in the UK and abroad.
Sheila McCarthy-Dodd (MBACP)
Sheila is Student Director and member of the Senior Teaching Faculty at the Centre. She has trained and worked extensively in Systemic Family Constellations since 1996 and leads regular workshops in Ireland and the UK. Sheila has a well-established therapy practice in Gloucestershire for individuals, couples and supervision. She works extensively as a trainer including facilitating Relational Supervision training with Severn Talking Therapy .
The Centre Senior Faculty
Clare Crombie
Clare is a member of the Senior Teaching Faculty, and is an experienced UKCP Registered psychotherapist, supervisor and workshop leader. She trained at the Gestalt Centre London, from 1989, and started to incorporate Family Constellations into her practice 1996.
Clare was president of ISCA for four years. She is also qualified in EMDR and studied advances in Relational Psychotherapy, Attachment Theory, Mindfulness, and enjoys learning more about the brain with Sarah Peyton. Clare is a founder member of the Cancer Counselling Trust London, and has worked in this field.
Gaye Donaldson (BACP)
Gaye is Principal Director of CSC having held the position of Managing Director for many years. She is the lead teacher of the Senior Teaching Faculty and, with faculty input, she also designs many of the Centre courses. She found constellation work in 1994 and has trained extensively in both family and organisational constellations. She teaches, facilitates workshops, and works as a systemic coach & consultant in film, theatre and other creative initiatives both in the UK and abroad.
Sheila McCarthy-Dodd (MBACP)
Sheila is Student Director and member of the Senior Teaching Faculty at the Centre. She has trained and worked extensively in Systemic Family Constellations since 1996 and leads regular workshops in Ireland and the UK. Sheila has a well-established therapy practice in Gloucestershire for individuals, couples and supervision. She works extensively as a trainer including facilitating Relational Supervision training with Severn Talking Therapy .
Chris Williams (BACP)
Chris is Programme Director of the Centre and a member of the Senior Teaching Faculty. He has been working in the therapeutic field since 1990 and currently works as a Constellation Practitioner, Psychotherapist, Supervisor, Coach and Trainer. He is a UKCP registered gestalt psychotherapist and a senior accredited BACP counsellor, with a well-established practice in South London.
The Centre Faculty
Kate Engineer
Kate Engineer is a Bodyworker, Movement Teacher, and Family Constellations Practitioner. She is based in Manchester in the North of England where she has a long-established practice.
She originally trained in Contemporary Dance at the Laban Centre and has had an extensive career working with the field of physical performance in dance, theatre, and the visual arts. Most recently she has been working in movement training for actors.
She first encountered Family Constellation Work in 2011 through finding the book Love’s Hidden Symmetry on a friend’s kitchen table. She has been following a thread with it ever since, from personal work to facilitation and now she is thrilled to be training to teach the principles of the work with The Centre for Systemic Constellations (UK).
She believes deeply in the body’s ability to find healing if the right conditions are present
James Pereira
James Pereira is an ICF certified coach, constellations facilitator, NLP master practitioner and practising barrister. He runs regular constellation workshops in the beautiful surroundings of the Inner Temple, London.
James first experienced family constellations with Judith Hemming, and was so impressed with its transformational impact that he went on to complete his Foundation and Applied training at The CSC, and undertake systemic leadership and business coaching programmes at The Whole Partnership. He is qualified in Organisation, Relationships and Systems Coaching (‘ORSC’), and obtained his NLP Master Practitioner’s certification in 2017 (training with Dr Richard Bandler, co-creator of NLP). He has also undertaken training in mindfulness, meditation and trauma therapy which he integrates into his coaching practice.
James divides his time between 1:1 and organisational coaching, constellation facilitating, training lawyers and legal practice. He aims to bring a safe, brave and heartfelt presence to his facilitating, and strives to support clients to find insights, movements and solutions that are right for them.
International Teachers
Sarah Peyton
Sarah is a constellations facilitator, Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and neuroscience educator, integrates constellations, brain science and the use of resonant language to heal trauma with exquisite and warm gentleness. She teaches and lectures internationally, contributes regularly to The Knowing Field, is an annual guest speaker and teacher at the ISCA Intensive in Germany and is the author of the book “Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing.” She is currently at work on a second book, commissioned by W.W.Norton, on the relational neuroscience of the unconscious contracts that constellations so often let us discover and disentangle.
Daan van Kampenhout
Daan van Kampenhout has been studying shamanic practice since the late 1980’s with teachers from various cultures. In the late 1990’s he got involved with family constellations and gradually developed Systemic Ritual, which unites elements of shamanic ritual and systemic constellations in a form all its own. Daan has written seven books, which have been translated into 12 languages and he has worked worldwide.
2026 Visiting Teachers
Zita Tulyahikayo
Zita FRSA is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, ICF accredited Systemic Coach, Systemic Constellations Facilitator, and NLP Master Practitioner, with over 15 years in practice in Los Angeles, Stockholm, and London.
Zita began her working life in the demanding and highly competitive fashion arena in both New York and Los Angeles. During 13 years as a freelance fashion editor and stylist, she developed strong leadership skills and refined the art of thinking and communicating both rationally and creatively outside the box. During this time, Zita developed a keen interest in people and systems and how they interrelated with each other. This interest developed organically over time, and Zita now has over 15 years of experience working as a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Systemic Coach and Facilitator. Her experience is underscored by first-class training by renowned teachers worldwide, such that her training is as exceptional as the clients she supports.
Zita’s unique approach, which she calls Life Therapy, draws upon all her experience, skills, and training to create the space for her clients and the systems to which they belong, to overcome seemingly intractable issues and realise their optimal potential and performance.
As one with multiple ancestral belonging to East Africa, the Caribbean, British and Jewish, Zita has refined the art of building cross-cultural bridges related to the transgenerational trauma of slavery, racism, and colonisation. Zita is frequently called upon to teach, speak and facilitate workshops on the broader systemic effect of these social issues.
In addition to coaching individuals, couples and organisations, Zita also co-writes a regular column on wellbeing for The Lawyer Magazine entitled “Loving Legal Life” and a series of articles in the Bar’s journal, Counsel Magazine. She is frequently called on to speak on matters related to diversity and inclusion through the systemic lens.
Richard Bundy
Richard was born in the Guyanese rainforest. As a systemic practitioner, musician, and composer, his work moves between sound, stillness, and the natural world. Raised in Northern Saskatchewan and now based in the UK, Richard spent over thirty years touring internationally as a musician and later as a Musical Director. Richard’s systemic practice provides a framework for large social projects, film, and contributions in the UK Parliament. Rooted in Taoist philosophy and a lifelong exploration of the quiet thresholds of nature, he was mentored by renowned practitioner Judith Hemming and serves internationally as an assistant to Mark Wolynn. As a systemic facilitator for over twenty years, and executive coach Richard bridges worlds, integrating systemic wisdom, music, and lived experience to create spaces of clarity, depth, and gentle transformation. Richard is also a mentor and film creator on https://thrive.one/
The Centre Office Team
Tara Kelsall
Tara is the Course Adminstrator at CSC and currently lives in the peaceful countryside just outside Bath in the West Country. She has lots of experience supporting small organisations with all aspects of administration. Tara is also a life coach and wild swimming guide and specialises in supporting women to connect with themselves and others, in nature. Tara’s first introduction to systemic constellations was through the CSC’s ‘Body as Home for the Soul’ workshop.
Magda Nowakowska
Magda is supporting CSC on all aspects of technical website, hub management and events. Originally from Poland, she has been living in London for almost 20 years. She has over 15 years of experience working in multiple finance and management roles in the banking sector and with HMRC, but she is also working in the healing field and has trained with the CSC.
The Founders
We would like to include our deep respect for the founders and past directors of our organisation over the years. Our Founders include Richard Wallstein, Jutta ten Herkel, Judith Hemming, Philippa Lubbock, Barbara Stones and Karen Hedley. Past Directors include Edward Rowland and Nicola Dunn.
All of us bow to the wisdom and learning that our teachers Bert Hellinger and Hunter Beaumont brought to the world from the knowing field traditions of indigenous communities across the continents. We feel huge gratitude and indebtedness to the source and to everyone who contributed to the development of the work.
