About Gabriel

Gabriel «De Velasco» Valenzuela Vázquez,  1972. México City.

He is the founder of Constela Group® (Constela Center® and Systemic Attitude®). Gabriel is a psychotherapist, communicologist, systemic coach and lecturer.

I lend you my eyes for you to look at yourself, I lend you my heart for you to feel, I lend you my mind for you to understand…
Communication at the service of relationship healing and emotional freedom.

  • Gabriel’s own personal history has led him through a road of constant work, human development and personal growth with all that implies. Undoubtedly his origin has been crucial in the construction of his understanding of the emotional life of the contemporary human being. This understanding has been the basis of his philosophy and his approach.

«As the son of a single mother, I lived with my mother, grandparents and uncles during my first five years of age. The next ten years I grew up with my mother, her husband, my sister Viviana and my brother Marco Antonio.

Oscar Valenzuela, my Honoris Causa father, as I like to call him, took me in as his son and gave me his last name: Valenzuela. When I was 15 years of age I returned to my maternal grandmother’s house and without being aware about it at first, I began the journey in search of my father, Carlos de Velasco. I met my father a year before a turned thirty and since that moment my heart understood that only by loving those who gave us life and being thankful to those who reared us, the soul can find peace and harmony. Today I use my original last name to honor my father, and I am profoundly thankful to Oscar Valenzuela whose example continues giving me strength in all that I do.

I am convinced that order, respect and truth are always the allies of a soul that is at the service of life. Family Constellations is without a doubt the most loving way to embrace life and to leave behind the shadows that hinder our way towards happiness.”.

Gabriel graduated from Communication Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Later, he studied at the I-Namic Institute in Jalapa, Veracruz and became an Integrative Body Psychotherapist. His training is based fundamentally on Pathwork, Gestalt psychology, Core energetics and Bioenergetics. He studied under the direction of Dr. Miguel Angel Torres Torres.

Gabriel also pursued a specialization in Family Constellations (Systemic and Transgenerational Therapy) at the Corpo Alma Terapeutika Institute in Guadalajara, where he was mentored by Psychotherapist Maria Martha Arredondo (Maye Arredondo), whose teacher was Lorenz Wiest, the first psychotherapist that introduced Bert Hellinger’s work in Mexico. Maye is a practitioner member of the Bert Hellinger Spanish Institute of Family Constellations. She is also Dr. Hellinger’s student and travels to the different courses that he offers in Mexico and in other Spanish-speaking countries.

Gabriel holds a specialization degree in Marketing and a Diploma in Administration by La Salle University, as well as a Diploma in the Development of Management Abilities by the Intercontinental University.
Throughout the years Gabriel has participated in different seminars, workshops and international events offered by some of the most well-known therapists in Mexico and abroad, such as Susana Martinez-Vara, Miguel Angel Torres, Maye Arredondo, Lorena Figueroa, Gloria Elena Cruz, Ingala Robl, Sigfred Bach, Bert Hellinger, Stephan Hausner, Gunthard Weber, Tiiu Bolzmann, Arawana Hayashi, Katia de Rivero, Claude Rosselet, Anton de Kroon, Brigitte Sachs, Jane Peterson, Bibi Schreuder, Daniel Polack, Michael Blumenstein, Jan Jacob Stam, William Echegaray, Georg Senoner, Angelica Olvera, Alfonso Malpica, Marianne Costa, Pablo Herrera and Mildreth Jiménez, among others.

In addition, Gabriel’s training includes the following courses and certifications:

  • Practitioner of Boyesen Massage certified by the Gerda Boyesen International Institute.
  • Diploma in Trauma certified by the Hakomi Somatics Institute of New York.
  • Certificate in Family Constellations and Movements of the Soul awarded by Hellinger Sciencia and Cudec.
  • Certificate in Systemic Organizational Coaching awarded by Hellinger Sciencia and Cudec.
  • Enneagram course taken at the Yollocalli Center in Mexico City.
    Course on Psychogenealogy and Psychomagic with Marianne Costa, a follower of Alejandro Jodorosky’s philosophy.
  • Specialization course in Coaching offered by Anahuac University.
    Participant of the Management Training Program (PFG) offered by the Training and Culture Institute of the ADO Group in Mexico City. This program is based on the Six Sigma approach.
  • Participant during the Organizational Systemic Coaching Session of the International Organization Constellations Training Intensive (IOCTI) held in 2010.

Since 1998 Gabriel has offered a vast number of workshops and courses on Systemic Coaching for public and private entities and since 2002 he has lead workshops on Body Psychotherapy. He has also been in charge of different productivity projects based on the Six Sigma approach.

In 2005 he begins to include the language of Family Constellations in his work using the systemic and transgenerational approach of Bert Hellinger, with whom he trains continuously. He has worked for different media firms such as MVC Multivision, MTV Networks, Cablevision and TV Azteca where he has mainly collaborated in market studies and in the development of sales strategies.

For 5 years he was Chief Executive of Multipack, Logistics Enterprises in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Bajio region of Central Mexico.
His experience as Chief Executive has been pivotal in his performance as an effective coach and has enabled him to successfully integrate high development teams integrating the Six Sigma approach to his systemic coaching model.

Gabriel is the founder and Director of Constela Center, Systemic Solutions, in Leon Guanajuato. Throughout the years different professionals specialized in several therapy areas, business consulting and training, psychology, engineering, communication and marketing have joined the working team of the Center.

Currently Gabriel offers individual Psychotherapy and Systemic Coaching consultation to businessmen and other professionals. He also organizes intensive workshops in Mexico City and in different cities all over Mexico.
He has been invited as a specialist guest in television and radio programs and has been a columnist in different magazines and newspapers. He was the producer and host of the programs La Hormona, La Neurona and Su Salud in Radioformula, a radio and TV station in Veracruz.

He publishes articles in the AM Newspaper in Leon, Guanajuato and occasionally appears on channel TV and Grupo Promomedios Radio, where he discusses human behavior in the family context and organizations.
Gabriel is married to psychotherapist Ana Laura Arvizu García, with whom he has shared his life and projects since 2005.