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Somatic Therapy & Family Constellations in London & Online
Hello, I'm Rose — a Somatic and Family Constellations Therapist working in East London and online, at the interface of words, nervous system and embodied enquiry. My approach brings together somatic and systemic ways of understanding our lives: paying attention both to what happens within us, and to the relationships and wider systems that shape who we are.
Therapy with me is a collaborative process of discovery. I bring many years of experience and different ways of working; you bring the lived experience of being you. Together we discover what best supports the movement or settling that you seek.
Rose C Jiggens
Page overview
This page takes around 5 minutes to read and explores:
- Core information at a glance
- Somatic & Family Constellations therapy — who is this work for?
- What is somatic therapy?
- Why bring somatic and systemic therapy together?
- Family and kinship — the relationships that shape and sustain us
- How might we work together?
- Who is Rose C Jiggens?
- Training and experience
Somatic Therapy & Family Constellations, in E8 London
Core information at a glance
Somatic and Family Constellations Therapist
Working with individuals and groups since 2008. Accredited Senior Member of ACCPH, professionally insured and in regular clinical supervision.
East London Therapy
In-person sessions at Hackney Downs Studios, E8, near Hackney, Dalston, Clapton and Stoke Newington. Nearby Rectory Road has direct trains to Liverpool Street in around 12 minutes.
Somatic and Family Constellations Therapy Online
Online sessions offer space for somatic and systemic enquiry through words, felt sense and guided exploration. For some, being at home helps them settle into the work. Sessions are held on secure video platforms.
Flexible Sessions
Sessions can be weekly, fortnightly or ad hoc, depending on what works for you. New to my practice? The usual first step is a 60-minute Orientation Session, which you can book directly online.
Fees & Booking
Standard sessions are £110, with a £90 concessionary rate and £70 subsidised sessions, subject to availability. A first Orientation Session is £60. See Fees & FAQs for eligibility, working hours, bookings and full details.
Workshops
Join monthly Family Constellations groups online, or occasional in-person workshops in London. Online groups are limited to 6 people, with time to explore and participate. See workshop dates here.
Somatic & Family Constellations therapy — who is this work for?
Some of the people who find me have spent years trying to understand themselves and where they belong; some are just beginning that journey. You may be coming with something specific — anxiety, trauma, loss, difficulties in a relationship or a period of change — or with a less easily named sense that something in your life no longer fits. Sometimes we can understand a great deal about ourselves and still find it difficult to change how we feel or respond. You might notice familiar patterns repeating, feel overwhelmed by emotion or cut off from it altogether, or find it hard to know what you really want.
I work with adults of different ages and backgrounds, cultures, beliefs and economic circumstances. Many of the people I see are neurodivergent or LGBTQ+; many are not. People bring many different experiences of relationships, family and community. What often brings people to me is a wish for greater choice in how they feel, live and relate — to understand themselves more deeply, find meaning in their experience, and feel more able to be themselves in the lives they build.
What is somatic therapy?
Somatic therapy is a broad term for approaches that include the body and nervous system within the therapeutic process. Alongside talking and making sense of your experience, we pay attention to what is happening in the present moment — sensations, breath, impulses and subtle shifts in how you feel. This can be particularly useful when you understand something intellectually, but that understanding alone hasn't changed how you feel or respond.
My own approach draws on Transforming Touch® and Trauma-Sensitive Breathwork, alongside EMDR and other trauma-informed approaches. Transforming Touch® is a regulation-focused form of therapeutic touch, informed by attachment, relational safety and developmental trauma. It is particularly designed to support experiences from early life that can continue to show up in our adult relationships and nervous systems, but may be difficult to put into words because their roots reach back to a time before we had them. Greater ease and stability can give us more space to approach these experiences with support and choice.
I also work with the understanding that we can contain different, sometimes conflicting, aspects of self — or selves. Somatic enquiry, therapeutic touch and consent-based ways of working can help us listen more carefully to these different responses and what they might need, creating more choice and less need for one part of ourselves to hide or override another.
Why bring somatic and systemic therapy together?
None of us develops in isolation. Our inner lives are shaped through relationships — within families, friendships and communities — and by wider influences such as culture, class, institutions, migration and the times and places we live in. Some of what we carry is deeply personal; some makes more sense when we understand the wider systems we have been part of, whose influence may span several generations.
Bringing somatic and systemic perspectives together allows us to move between these layers of experience. Rather than asking only What's happening inside me?, we can also ask What happened around me? What have I adapted to? What belongs to me, and what might I be carrying for others? What might belong to another time or place that is no longer helpful now?
For me, this is also about making room for context rather than locating every difficulty within the individual. The ways we adapt often make sense in relation to the environments and relationships we have lived within. Understanding that can bring greater compassion for how we came to be as we are, uncover previously unseen resources, and help us explore what might become possible now. For some people, a sense of purpose or sources of strength may be found through exploring ancestry; others may want to explore dimensions of energy, soul and spirit.
Where these are important to you, they are welcome as part of our enquiry.
Family and kinship — the relationships that shape and sustain us
Family Constellations is one way I bring a systemic perspective into my practice. Originating in the work of Bert Hellinger, the approach has evolved considerably since its early development.
My own practice brings systemic thinking together with somatic awareness, trauma-sensitive pacing and consent. I also work with an intention not to replicate fixed assumptions about gender, relationships and what a family should look like, whether these come from wider cultural norms or the history of Family Constellations practice.
Although Family Constellations remains the recognised name for this work, I increasingly think through the wider lens of kinship. Biological ancestry can be important, but it isn't the only place we find belonging or support. A constellation might also include chosen or blended family, friends and partners, communities and cultural lineages, places, animals or the natural world. Sometimes creating family elsewhere, setting boundaries or moving away from relationships that harm us can itself be part of finding where we belong.
This also changes how I approach the constellation itself. I don't see it as revealing a single hidden truth, or assume that reconciliation or greater closeness with biological family (within the constellation or otherwise) is the desired outcome. Instead, we stay curious about what emerges and what has meaning for you. We might ask: What relationships, histories and resources are present here? What sustains you? And what might support greater choice, connection and belonging without requiring you to abandon yourself?
How might we work together?
There isn't a single route through therapy with me. We might begin in conversation with something happening now, an experience from the past, a relationship, a sensation in your body, or simply something that doesn't quite make sense yet.
From there, we pay attention together. We might notice what is happening in your body, become curious about different parts of yourself, explore a relationship or systemic pattern, or work with breath or therapeutic touch. We may lay out a constellation, using felt sense to map anything from home and relationships to work or a creative project. Where questions of ancestry, energy, soul or spirit are part of what you bring, we might also draw on imagery, embodied enquiry or ritual as ways of exploring them. At other times, staying in conversation may be exactly what is needed.
Online work can be surprisingly embodied. Through voice, attention and guided enquiry, we can slow down and notice what is happening in your body and wider system, sometimes with a strength that surprises people. I have developed ways of working with Family Constellations online, using visual mapping, inner vision or objects around you. Somatic therapy can also include guided touch practices, and I use a specialist online platform for EMDR.
As ever, we find what works for you.
I think of these as small, collaborative enquiries rather than techniques applied to you. We can try something, notice what happens, and let that experience inform what comes next — sometimes slowing down or finding more support before approaching something difficult, sometimes discovering an unexpected new perspective.
Some people come specifically for one therapeutic approach; for others, the work develops across them. You can explore the different ways I work through the 1-to-1 Therapies menu above — but don't feel you need to work out the right approach before getting in touch. An initial Orientation Session can be a good place for us to explore that together.
Who is Rose?
My name is Rose, and my pronouns are they/them. I live with my partners and chosen family as the elder of a three-generation, extended and blended household, alongside a wider circle of creative nomads who regularly come to rest with us.
My perspective has been shaped by neurodivergence, bisexuality and living outside some conventional templates for relationships and family. These are parts of my experience rather than requirements for working with me. I work with people whose lives, beliefs and backgrounds can be very different from my own, with curiosity about what matters to them.
I came to somatic therapy myself when much of what was happening in my body was beyond what talking therapy alone could reach. That experience means I value work that makes room for both words and what happens beneath them.
Away from therapy, I love open-air swimming, expressive movement and dance, and community gatherings — balanced with plenty of quiet time on Hackney Marshes and Downs, making friends with plants, trees, squirrels and birds.
What is Rose's training and experience?
I've held individual sessions and facilitated groups since 2008, with more than 20 years of training and experience across therapeutic, somatic and embodied approaches. My core professional trainings include Family and Systemic Constellations, Transforming Touch®, EMDR and Rebirthing Breathwork, which now informs my trauma-sensitive approach to breathwork. I have also completed an Introduction to Therapeutic Groupwork and Building Blocks: An 8-day Intermediate Groupwork Training.
My training and development spans more than 2,000 hours, including formal therapeutic training, earlier embodied and experiential learning, and continuing professional development. I'm an Accredited Senior Member of the ACCPH, insured through BGI, and undertake regular individual, specialist and peer supervision. My practice continues to develop through further training, supervision and collaboration with other practitioners.
1. Ancestors: how does the past shape you?
Shed light and gain perspective on everyday issues with constellations
2. Healing your inner child: who are you?
Embodied therapy and learning for healing your inner child
3. Embodied delight: what's your pleasure?
Heal your relationship with pleasure using the Wheel of Consent®
4. Soul work: what's your purpose?
Unite what you do best with the people who you can best serve
Frequently Asked Questions
The information below is intended to help you make an informed decision about whether my work is a good fit for you. Before booking a session or attending a group, I ask that you take a few minutes to read it, particularly the sections on Informed consent, professional status and scope of practice and How My Practice is Supported and Accountable.
What training and experience do you have?
I've worked individually and with groups since 2008, and I'm an Accredited Senior Member of the ACCPH.
My professional education includes substantial training in Family Constellations, Transforming Touch®, breathwork and EMDR, alongside many years of body-based experiential learning and continuing professional development.
As of late 2026, I've completed more than 3,200 hours of supervised one-to-one therapeutic practice recorded since July 2019, alongside over 300 hours facilitating Family Constellations groups.
You can read more about my professional journey, qualifications and experience on my My Story, Training and Experience page.
How long are sessions?
- Most sessions I offer are 1 hour long, which is sufficient for most of the work we might do together.
- I structure my working day so that you receive a full 60 minutes, rather than the shorter therapeutic hour commonly used in talking therapies.
- I also offer 1.5-hour sessions, although these are less frequently available due to the structure of my working day.
How many sessions do I need to have?
Regular sessions
In my regular weekly or fortnightly slots, I mostly work with people longer term, from around six months to several years. This gives us time to build a trusting therapeutic relationship, within which we can explore deeper material with care and support.
Ad-hoc sessions
I also see people ad hoc, with sessions booked individually as needed. This can work well alongside attending my groups and workshops, where appropriate to your needs.
Ad-hoc sessions can also suit freelancers, people who cannot commit to a regular booking, or those wanting to explore something specific over a shorter period.
How do I know which approach to choose?
Sometimes the answer is straightforward. You may already have experience of different therapeutic or healing approaches and have a clear sense of what you would like to explore next.
At other times, information shared during the intake process may indicate that a particular approach is likely to be especially relevant to your enquiry.
Sometimes neither of us knows immediately where to begin. In these situations, an Orientation Session can be a useful place to explore your goals, discuss the options available, and develop a plan for working together.
Whatever the starting point, decisions about how we work are made collaboratively. I bring my training, experience, and professional judgement; you bring your own knowledge of yourself, your needs, preferences, and hopes for the work. Together, we identify an approach that feels appropriate for your enquiry.
What Happens in a Session?
Mixed Modality Sessions
Some people arrive knowing exactly which approach they would like to explore. Others are unsure where to begin.
Where appropriate, sessions may combine elements from different approaches. Together, we decide what feels most relevant and supportive for your goals, preferences, and circumstances.
Family Constellations
We begin by exploring the theme you would like to work with. We may then use visualisation, floor markers or figures to create a constellation, exploring relationships, patterns and perspectives that emerge through the process. No prior experience is needed.
Transforming Touch® & Intentional Touch
We begin by discussing your goals and identifying what you would like support with.
Transforming Touch® may involve lying fully clothed on a massage table while I use gentle, structured therapeutic touch to support nervous system regulation and integration. Physical touch is always optional, and we can pause, adjust or work without touch at any point.
Intentional Touch offers a way to explore this work without physical contact, guided through voice and attention, including during online sessions.
You are welcome to talk throughout, remain quiet, or move between the two.
EMDR
EMDR combines conversation with bilateral stimulation, usually through eye movements or tapping. Before beginning processing, we establish resources to support the work safely.
The aim is to help difficult experiences become less overwhelming and more integrated over time.
Trauma-Sensitive Breathwork
We begin by exploring your themes through conversation, body awareness and breath. Sessions are relational and responsive to your needs, with room for gentle exploration or more active and expressive work where appropriate.
I do not offer intensive, prolonged breathing processes with loud music or group-style cathartic breathwork sessions.
Wheel of Consent
The Wheel of Consent® is both a theoretical model about agreements and a touch practice.
The theoretical model
This supports my entire therapeutic practice. For example, I might draw on the theory to help you understand what happened in an interaction that confused you. The interaction you seek to understand could be sexual — but it could equally be what happened when your boss asked you to work overtime!
The Wheel of Consent as a somatic practice
This includes a solo touch practice (called Waking Up the Hands), which I sometimes teach in sessions. It also includes a partnered touch practice for noticing and following your desires. This partnered practice is generally incompatible with my role as a therapist, so it's not something I offer within therapy.
I can recommend other practitioners, or you can follow my free partnered touch practice videos with a friend.
The Wheel of Consent: a free introductory video course.
Soul Energy Optimisation
For practitioners, creatives, and purpose-led professionals. Sessions combine practical guidance with transformational enquiry, helping you develop your work, clarify your direction, and work through personal or systemic blocks that may be affecting your professional life.
Orientation Session
The Orientation Session contains:
- Space to talk about your reasons for seeking sessions.
- Space for you to ask questions about the approaches offered.
- Space for me to make further enquiries, to better assess if I am the right therapist for your needs.
- An introductory experience of somatic or systemic process work, tailored to your enquiry.
Informed consent, professional status and scope of practice
The following information explains the principles, responsibilities and professional boundaries that support our work together.
Personal responsibility and informed consent
I aim to provide a supportive, appropriately held therapeutic environment, with attention to consent, choice and your individual needs.
Your participation is voluntary. You are welcome to ask questions, express uncertainty, decline an exercise, or pause or stop something at any time. I take responsibility for working within my training and competence, maintaining appropriate professional boundaries and responding to concerns about the work.
We share responsibility for communicating about what is happening in sessions, recognising that this may not always be straightforward.
Suitability of the work
During the enquiry process and, usually, an Orientation Session, we consider whether the therapy I offer is appropriate for your needs and circumstances.
There may be occasions when another approach, therapist or healthcare service would better meet your needs. Where appropriate, I will discuss this with you.
You may also wish to consult healthcare or other support professionals involved in your care. Any such consultation is your choice, taking account of your own safety and circumstances.
Professional status and scope of practice
I offer Somatic and Family Constellations Therapy, drawing on my professional training, ongoing supervision and experience working with clients.
I am an Accredited Senior Member of the ACCPH. My membership includes a commitment to their professional Code of Conduct and relevant policies, including those concerning equality, diversity and inclusion, safeguarding and complaints. I also hold professional indemnity insurance.
You can read about my qualifications, experience and professional accountability on my My Story, Training and Experience page.
I do not offer medical or psychiatric assessment, diagnosis or treatment, and I am not registered as a psychologist or other statutorily regulated healthcare professional. My work is not a substitute for medical or psychiatric care where this is needed.
Nature of the approaches offered
The approaches I use vary in their methods, aims and levels of research evidence. Some have established applications within psychological therapy, while others have a more limited evidence base.
I aim to be transparent about these differences and to work collaboratively with you in considering which approaches may be appropriate.
I do not claim that the approaches I use can cure or prevent physical or mental health conditions.
For clients in the United States
I practise in the United Kingdom, where the professional title therapist is not generally subject to statutory registration.
My use of the terms therapy and therapist does not imply that I hold a licence as a psychotherapist, psychologist, counsellor or healthcare professional in the United States.
How is my practice supported and accountable?
I believe that good practice involves ongoing reflection, supervision, learning, and accountability. The structures that support my work include:
Professional Supervision
I attend regular one-to-one supervision with DK Green Psychotherapy. I also attend occasional group supervision with Stephen J. Terrell, specifically supporting the Transforming Touch® aspect of my practice. I seek other specialist supervision as needed.
Peer Support and Supervision
I am part of a closed practitioner peer support and supervision circle called Plurilium. Together we bring experience from clinical practice, teaching, research and professional training, creating a thoughtful space for ongoing reflection and mutual accountability.
Our discussions explore broader themes of professional practice, including consent, ethics, nervous system awareness, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), GSRD and LGBTQIA+ affirming practice, and the practical challenges of offering safe, responsive and ethical care.
I do not bring individual client cases to the wider Plurilium group. Instead, we reflect on broader themes and ethical questions that arise through our work, without sharing information that could identify individual clients.
Confidentiality Within Supervision
Supervision is an important part of maintaining safe and effective practice. When discussing individual client work in supervision or professional consultation, I take care to protect confidentiality and avoid sharing information that could identify you.
Before discussing individual client work within supervision, I also consider whether there may be any personal or community overlaps that could affect confidentiality.
If a supervisor were to recognise a client from the information shared, I would stop that discussion and, where needed, seek support elsewhere.
Professional Membership and Insurance
I hold Product & Public Liability insurance and Professional Indemnity & Malpractice insurance through BGI UK. I am also an Accredited Senior Member of the ACCPH.
Training and Experience
You can read more about my professional journey, qualifications and experience on my My Story, Training and Experience page. I believe it is important that clients are able to make informed decisions about who they choose to work with.
Your data and privacy
- Information Comissioner's Office: registration number ZB576723
- Privacy Statement Page Link
Accessibility and Access Needs
Physical Access
The Somatic Therapy Studio, where I offer one-to-one sessions, is accessed via one flight of stairs and is not currently wheelchair accessible.
Groupwork takes place at a variety of venues. Accessibility varies by location, so please enquire if you would like information about a particular event.
Access Needs
I have experience offering somatic and systemic work, both online and in person, with clients across a range of neurodivergence, disabilities, and long-term health conditions.
My practice is informed by social models of disability and by the understanding that access needs are individual. Where possible, I work collaboratively with clients to identify adjustments that support their participation.
If you have access needs, you're welcome to let me know through the enquiry or intake form, or by email, and we can discuss what may be possible.
Areas of Experience
Areas of experience within my practice include:
- Autism and ADHD (around 50% of people currently attending my practice are diagnosed as neurodivergent or exploring whether they might be)
- Sensory processing differences
- Wheelchair users (online sessions)
- Chronic illness and long-term health conditions, including MS, CFS/ME, post-viral fatigue, IBS, POTS, EDS, arthritis, and related conditions
If you would like to discuss a specific access requirement before booking, please feel welcome to get in touch.
Cancellations
Cancellations
- Cancellation notice: I require at least 48 hours' notice to cancel or reschedule a session.
- Late cancellations: With less than 48 hours' notice, the full session fee will be retained. Rescheduling is at my discretion.
- Missed sessions: If you do not attend your appointment, the full fee will be retained and the session cannot be rescheduled.
- If I need to cancel: You can choose between a full refund and rescheduling your appointment.
- Additional costs: I cannot reimburse additional expenses, such as travel or accommodation costs, arising from a cancelled session.
Mailing Lists
I respect your privacy and don't automatically add you to mailing lists. You can choose to subscribe to any of the following:
- True Self Systems mailing list: Infrequent updates, usually around 3–6 emails a year.
- Family Constellations Workshops mailing list: A mailing list shared with Abi Berger, with updates about our respective online groups and collaborative in-person workshops. Emails are usually sent around once a month during term time.
- Practice availability notifications: If my regular 1-to-1 practice is full, you can ask to hear when suitable spaces become available through the Individual Session Enquiry Form.