About Us

Susan Ulfelder, ND, CMT, RPP, RDH, is a certified traditional naturopath and a hands-on-healer. She began her formal education as a Registered Dental Hygienist. From the defined area of the mouth, she quickly expanded her scope of awareness to include the entire body through completing the didactic portion of a PhD in Nutrition. From the body, her attention moved into the individual energy field. Starting out as a Touch for Health instructor, she became a Registered Polarity Practitioner, and is a graduate and former Junior Class Teacher (now called Dean) at the Barbara Brennen School of Healing. Over the past 30 years, she has added many healing modalities to her repertoire, including Flower Essences, Essential Oils, Tuning Forks, Kabbalistic Healing, etc.

Susan earned a Doctor of Naturopathy from Clayton College of Natural Healing and a Doctor of Integrative Medicine from Capital University of Integrative Medicine where she became the chair of the Department of Energy and Spiritual Healing. While studying at CUIM, she became exposed to the work of Bert Hellinger. It was then that she further expanded her awareness from an emphasis on the individual energy field to the family energy field. From that day on she began to think and work systemically.

Susan was introduced to this work in a workshop of Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD in 1998. After attending 2 workshops facilitated by Bert Hellinger, she completed the first training sponsored by the Bert Hellinger Institute, USA in NYC that was taught by Harald Hohnen and Hunter Beaumont. She has attended numerous Family Constellation workshops given by Gunthard Weber, Albrecht Mahr, Bertold Ulsamer, Jakob Schneider, Sieglinde Schneider, Stephan Hausner and many more experienced facilitators at conferences and intensives. She attended the 1st & 2nd International Intensives at ZIST in Germany and the 1st and 2nd North American Constellation Intensive in Santa Barbara, CA. She has also attended conferences on the Family Constellation work of Bert Hellinger in Oaxaca, Mexico; Cologne, Germany; Portland, Oregon; and most recently in Taipei, Taiwan. In Oaxaca, Mexico, she presented a workshop on "Perception in Family Constellations" and was a member of a panel discussion representing the United States. She recently gave 2 workshops at the 2005 US Systemic Constellation Conference in Portland, Oregon and was an American trainer at the 2nd North American Constellation Intensive in Santa Barbara, CA.

She has sponsored workshops facilitated by Bert Hellinger in the Washington, DC area as well as sponsored several workshops given by Jakob and Sieglinde Schneider, and Stephan Hausner.

Susan not only facilitates Family Constellations in a group workshop format and is one of the trainers, but she has incorporated the Family Constellations principles into her work with individuals in her private practice in Bethesda, MD. Susan and her husband John are co-trainers in the Hellinger Institute of DC training program.

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