In 2023, after great moments of suffering that brought me even closer to God and in particular to Our Lady through my consecration according to St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, I felt a strong call to unite my professional practice with my Catholic faith: thus I opened the website psicoterapiacatolica.
This is me
My name is Gabriela Osorio Villaseñor, wife and mother of two children. I am a Mexican psychologist and psychotherapist naturalised Italian, specialised in family psychotherapy with a cognitive-behavioural orientation but with a very important ‘integration’, faith in God, which I believe today can no longer be separated from my profession.
I am licensed to practice in Mexico with professional licence number 5422866, while in Italy, where I live most of the time, I am a counsellor.
I have many years of experience in different countries of the world and I speak fluent Italian, Spanish and English, which allows me to offer conferences, meetings and private consultations also to Spanish and English speakers.
I graduated in Psychology in 2004 at the University “Iberoamericana” of Leon Guanajuato in Mexico, and later I specialized in Rome at the John Paul II Institute of the Pontifical Lateran University and at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, where I studied and obtained three different master's degrees in two years: "Women, Culture and Society", "Consultation Psychology" and "Marriage and Family Sciences".
During my postgraduate studies, I worked as a simultaneous interpreter and translator, and then returned to Mexico, where I took charge of the violence prevention and attention unit at IMUG, the Women's Institute of the Government of Guanajuato, where I stayed for two years, giving many private consultations, lectures at schools and universities, and training and awareness courses on domestic and gender violence, problems of great importance throughout latin America.
At the end of 2008 I embarked on the most important "job" of my life becoming a wife and mother. I got married in the beautiful colonial city of Guanajuato and became a mother of two children.
Today I live in Italy, but the bond, affective and work-related, with my country of origin is always very strong: leaving one's roots and integrating into a new reality is always very difficult and traumatic, although stimulating because it is a source of great learning, change and personal growth. That is why I often return with my family and my heavenly mother, the Virgin of Guadalupe, to eat tacos and listen to mariachis to try to calm at least a little the nostalgia of the affections I left behind.
In 2024, I completed the Integral Psychology of the Person course organized by the Italian Association of Catholic Psychology and attended the International Catholic Psychotherapy Conference in the USA in New Orleans. I am a member of the board of directors of the Italian Association of Catholic Psychology and of the International Association of Catholic Psychology.
I am currently studying Theology at the School of Theological Formation of San Benedetto del Tronto, and in addition to my private practice I collaborate with non-profit organizations such as the Family Center.
In any case, what better way to introduce myself than a nice photogallery with some important moments of my life? Not only faith in God... I also have many other interests! My husband, a globetrotting blogger, has well accustomed me to a busy and sporting life, full of adventures!
