I’m April Wickström, a CTI- and ICF-educated Facilitator, author, and Trauma-Informed somatic teacher. I hold solo and group healing retreats year-round in Ojai with Family Constellations.

2010, a doctor half-joked that I had “broken my brain.” Up until then, I lived on intellect, exercise, strict diet, and relentless productivity, never realizing there was another way to exist. The prescription was rest — doing nothing. For an overachiever hooked on dopamine and external validation, that felt like punishment, and I fell into depression.

I started therapy, explored bodywork and 12-step programs, and sought out shamans and healers. Over and over, I was told: Be in your heart. I didn’t understand it, but I took it seriously — so seriously that finding my way back to my heart became my life’s work. 

All the somatic work, meditation, and breathwork helped me come back into my body.
The 12-step program helped me understand how addicted I was to validation—how much I needed to be good and see myself through other people’s eyes.

The shamanic world opened the door to spirituality, mysticism, and other dimensions.

But what truly changed my life—my manifestations and my quality of life—was Family Constellations. 

I immersed myself in it.

Through doing over a hundred constellations myself, and learning from Bert Hellinger and his teachings on the Orders of Love, something in me began to reorganize.

Over time, this work became my path.

A path that took me from Sweden, to L.A., to the hills of Ojai—
where I’ve created a sanctuary for constellation work, and where people come from all over the world for this potent work.

Today, I’ve held countless constellations over more than a decade.