Mark Wolynn is a leading voice in the field of inherited family trauma and the director of The Family Constellation Institute in San Francisco. For more than two decades, his work has explored how unresolved trauma can be passed down through generations, shaping emotional patterns, fears, and physical symptoms in ways that often remain invisible to those experiencing them.

He is the bestselling author of It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle, a widely influential book that brings together research from neuroscience, epigenetics, and psychology with practical tools for identifying and healing intergenerational trauma. Through this work, Mark has helped bring broader awareness to the ways anxiety, depression, chronic fear, and relationship struggles can sometimes be traced to unresolved experiences in earlier generations of a family system.

Mark teaches workshops and professional trainings internationally, working with therapists, physicians, and health professionals who want to integrate an understanding of family systems and inherited trauma into their clinical practice. Drawing on Family Constellation work, neuroscience, and somatic approaches, his teaching offers ways to recognize inherited patterns and begin the process of healing them.

Through his writing and teaching, Mark invites people to explore the deeper roots of their emotional lives, helping individuals understand that many persistent struggles may not originate with them alone, and that awareness can open the door to compassion, repair, and lasting change.