Mark Wolynn

Mark Wolynn, director of the Family Constellation Institute in San Francisco, California, is a leading expert in the field of inherited family trauma. A sought-after lecturer, he has taught at Omega, the University of Pittsburgh, the Western Psychiatric Institute, Kripalu, the New York Open Center, 1440 Multiversity, and the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Wolynn specializes in working with depression, anxiety, obsessive thoughts, fears, panic disorders, self-injury, chronic pain, and persistent symptoms and conditions. His book It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle is the winner of the 2016 Nautilus Book Award in psychology. His articles have appeared in Psychology Today, Mind Body Green, mariashriver.com, Elephant Journal, and Psych Central, and his poetry has been published in The New Yorker.