Co-founder

Anastasia (Anya) Guinchard, LMFT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist · Functional Nutritionist · Dancer

I am a multidisciplinary practitioner: a psychotherapist, a functional nutritionist and a dancer. My work sits at the intersection of psyche, body, spirituality and lineage.

I trained in traditional talk therapy, and I quickly saw its limits. Insight alone doesn't always translate into change. So my work grew beyond conversation, bringing in movement, nutrition, ancestry and spiritual practice to create deeper, more lasting change.

As a functional nutritionist, I look at physical and emotional wellbeing together. The body often holds what the mind cannot resolve, so I see symptoms not as isolated issues but as part of a larger, interconnected system.

I was raised in a multiracial, multicultural family with South American Indigenous, Middle Eastern and European roots. The need to find my own identity and belonging became the center of my work. I come from traditions where folklore, ritual and ancestral memory are central to healing.

Dance and choreography have been part of my whole life. I developed a Latin dance program that moves clients out of analysis and into embodiment, turning what is understood intellectually into something lived and felt.

My work is not about fixing. It is about integration: a return to the parts of ourselves that have been silenced, fragmented or forgotten.

Co-founder

Elena Skudskaia

Systemic Coach · ISCA Member · Former UCLA Lecturer

I was born in a country that no longer exists. I grew up watching one world collapse and another rise in its place, and I eventually built a life in a third. Today, America is home. I taught at a university here, studied psychoanalysis, and spent many years exploring how people make sense of themselves and their stories.

But my own story began much further back.

I grew up in a family with its own complexities and unfinished stories. And yet, alongside all of that, I always had a sense that something else was there too: a strength behind me, something larger than my individual story. For a long time, I didn't know how to reach it.

I believe deeply in therapy. I have both studied it and experienced it as a client. But I also came to understand that there are different ways of approaching the same question. Sometimes we can understand our history very well and still feel that something hasn't shifted.

That curiosity led me to systemic work.

For nearly five years, I have studied and practiced family constellations alongside the Slavic folk traditions and ancestral practices that are part of my cultural inheritance. For me, these aren't separate worlds. They are different ways of asking the same questions: Where do we come from? What have we inherited? What do we want to carry forward? And what are we ready to see differently?

Together with Anya, a licensed psychotherapist, I am building something that brings these perspectives into conversation with one another. A space where we can explore our family stories, reconnect with our roots, and consider what those roots mean for the lives we are creating now.

Today, I have a loving husband, a relationship I treasure, and a circle of friends who remind me how much can be built from a life that has been fully lived.

Constella grew from that experience.

It is for people who sense that there is more to their story than what they can see on the surface. People who feel a pull toward understanding where they came from and what they want to do with it.

There is no requirement to believe the same things, share the same traditions, or see ancestry in the same way. There is only an invitation to approach one another's roots with curiosity and respect.

Sometimes moving forward means going back to the beginning, not to stay there, but to understand what came before and decide what comes next.