What Is Systemic Family Constellations?
Systemic Family Constellations is a therapeutic healing modality developed by Bert Hellinger that works with the invisible patterns, loyalties, and unresolved events carried within a family system across generations.
It is based on the understanding that families operate as living systems with their own order and memory. When something goes unresolved within that system, a death unmourned, a trauma unspoken, an injustice unacknowledged, the energy of that event does not disappear. It passes forward, showing up in the lives of later generations as unexplained patterns, emotional weight, or recurring difficulties that feel inherited rather than chosen.
A constellation session makes these hidden dynamics visible and creates the conditions for them to shift. It does not require years of prior work, a complete family history, or any particular belief system. It requires only a willingness to be present with what is.
Why Choose Maryeli Cortes at MJCTlovey Corporation?
Family Constellations is not a service that was added to a growing list of offerings. It is a long-term, committed immersion in the lineage and method of this work — and the depth of training around it is what sets this practice apart.
Practising Since 2018
Maryeli Cortes has been training and practising in Systemic Family Constellations since 2018. Every session carries a quality of presence shaped by years of working with the ancestral field across cultures, languages, and family systems of genuine complexity.
Multi-Lineage Depth
Maryeli is also a Florida-licensed massage therapist, TAES® certified practitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapist, NLP Coach, and Breathwork Facilitator — holding each session with awareness of the somatic, energetic, and psychological dimensions simultaneously. She is reading the whole person, not applying a single technique.
Full Sessions in English & Spanish
The ancestral field is carried in language, in story, in the names and silences of family life. Doing this work in English when Spanish is the language of your family system creates a gap — here, that gap does not exist. Sessions are held in both languages with equal presence and care.
Boca Raton’s Only Dedicated Practice
MJCTlovey Corporation is Boca Raton’s only dedicated Family Constellations space. There is no local alternative — if this work is calling to you, this is the only practice in the market offering it in a professionally structured, ethically grounded, and experientially deep setting.
This is not a marketing claim — it is the reality of the local landscape. Clients travel from across South Florida, from Delray Beach, Deerfield Beach, Pompano Beach, and Fort Lauderdale, to sit in a constellation session at MJCTlovey Corporation. When there is only one place that offers something this significant, the distance is worth it.
What Happens in a Session?
There is no requirement to arrive with a clear or fully formed question. A felt sense, a recurring difficulty, or a relationship pattern is enough to begin.
The Conversation
The session begins with a brief conversation about what you are bringing to the work — no rehearsed narrative required, just what is present for you right now.
Setting Up the Constellation
In an individual session, symbolic objects or representatives stand in for family members; in a group constellation, other participants take on those roles — either way, revealing the hidden dynamics and unspoken loyalties behind your pattern.
What Emerges
What surfaces is often surprising, often moving, and almost always clarifying. The facilitator works with what the field reveals rather than imposing interpretation.
Session Length
Individual sessions typically run 90 minutes
Environment
Held in a professionally structured, ethically grounded space
Who Is Family Constellations For?
This work is for those who sense that what they are carrying does not belong entirely to them.
People with recurring relationship patterns they cannot trace to a clear cause
Those carrying grief, guilt, or a sense of responsibility that feels inherited rather than personal
Anyone who has done significant personal work and reached a ceiling they cannot push through alone
People from families with unspoken trauma, migration stories, loss, or historical injustice
Spanish-speaking clients in South Florida seeking ancestral healing work in their native language
Those curious about intergenerational trauma and its transmission across family lines
Who Is This Not For?
This practice is not suited to everyone at every stage of their journey. This is not the right session for:
Those in acute mental health crisis or requiring immediate clinical psychiatric support
People unwilling to engage with the possibility that family dynamics may be influencing their current experience
Those seeking a purely analytical or cognitive approach to their difficulties
If any of this describes where you are right now, that is worth naming before booking — a short conversation can help clarify whether this work is the right fit at this time.
Benefits of Family Constellations
Clients who engage with constellation work report shifts that often extend across multiple areas of their life.
Release of inherited emotional burdens carried unconsciously for years
Resolution of recurring relationship dynamics that have resisted other forms of therapy
Deeper understanding of family loyalty patterns and how they have shaped personal choices
A restored sense of belonging within the family system and within oneself
Clarity about patterns of intergenerational trauma and their origin points
Emotional relief and a felt sense of something long held beginning to settle
Greater capacity for self-awareness, inner balance, and emotional freedom
The Philosophy and Research Behind Family Constellations
This modality was developed by German psychotherapist Bert Hellinger in the late twentieth century, drawing on his observations across thousands of therapeutic sessions and his study of systemic family therapy, phenomenological philosophy, and Zulu healing traditions in South Africa. At the heart of the work is a simple but radical observation: families are systems, and systems have memory.
“Families are systems, and systems have memory.”
Bert Hellinger, founder of Systemic Family Constellations
This systemic memory operates through what Hellinger described as the orders of love — natural laws governing how belonging, precedence, and giving and taking flow within a family. When these orders are disrupted, later generations unconsciously carry the weight of the disruption, often in ways that manifest as unexplained suffering, self-sabotage, or relational patterns that seem impervious to personal effort.
The Emerging Science
The emerging science of epigenetics and intergenerational trauma transmission increasingly supports this understanding. Research by scientists including Rachel Yehuda on Holocaust survivor descendants has demonstrated that traumatic experiences can alter gene expression in ways that pass to subsequent generations. Family Constellations does not claim to work through genetic mechanisms, but its clinical observations and this emerging science point in the same direction: the past is not as past as we assume.
Before, During and After Your Session
No specific preparation is required. If you have a particular relationship, pattern, or question in mind, hold it loosely — do not worry if nothing feels clear yet. Sometimes the most significant constellations arise from the least clearly defined starting point. Wear comfortable clothing and allow yourself time to arrive unhurried.
Maryeli opens the session with a conversation about what you are bringing, then guides the constellation process at a pace that feels right for you. You are present and participating throughout, but never required to perform, explain, or reach a conclusion — the work unfolds at its own pace.
Integration can take days or even weeks — this is normal and part of the process. Avoid major decisions right after a session, and allow insights to settle. Many clients notice the most significant movement in the days that follow. Rest, gentle reflection, and time in nature all support integration.
What Clients Say About Family Constellations
“I came to the session with a question about why I kept ending relationships at the same point. What surfaced was a loyalty to my grandmother that I had no conscious awareness of. The moment that was named and acknowledged, something in me visibly relaxed. I have not repeated the pattern since.”
Sophi
Boca Raton, FL
“As a Latina woman, I came to this work because I felt I was carrying things from my family that were not mine. The constellation revealed three generations of unspoken grief. Doing this work in Spanish with Maryeli made the experience reach a depth that I do not think would have been possible in English. Something ancient moved.”
Emma
Delray Beach, FL
Some Things Cannot Be Understood. They Can Only Be Seen.
Family Constellations does not give you a new way to think about your patterns. It gives you a way to see them finally — and in seeing them, to begin to be free of them.
At MJCTlovey Corporation, Maryeli Cortes has held this position since 2018. She brings to every session a quality of presence shaped by years of working with families, ancestral systems, and the invisible field that connects us to those who came before. The session does not require you to have all the answers. It only requires you to be willing to look.
If something in you already knows it is time, trust that. MJCTlovey Corporation is here when you are ready.
Book Your Session Now
Visit or Reach Out
The studio is private, professionally structured, and easy to find in the heart of Boca Raton.