Inga Gentile - Licensed Clinical Psychologist, MFT and PACT Core Faculty Member/PACT-Certified Therapist
Inga is a licensed couples and family therapist (MFT) as well as a licensed psychologist in Norway. She has her own private clinical practice in Oslo, Norway and also serves as a core faculty member with the PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy) Institute in Los Angeles, CA. (https://www.thepactinstitute.com/) She is also a PACT-certified therapist - the only one in Norway.
Inga holds an MA in Clinical Psychology, with a focus on multicultural issues, and a BA in Sociology, with a concentration in gender, race and ethnicity. Her subsequent training has included treating individuals, couples, and families in hospital, community mental health clinics and private practice settings in North America, Europe and the UK.
She currently works with clients from a diversity of backgrounds, including expatriates of the USA and couples with binational and bicultural backgrounds. Additionally, she has worked extensively with couples and families, many of whom have experienced developmental and relational trauma. She believes strongly in supporting the building of robust relationships as a means of alleviating individual distress and encouraging individual and collective development.
Inga is additionally trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR™) and is fluent in both English and Norwegian. Her interest in somatic based approaches also influences her work.
She is passionate about mental health care in relation to her clients as well as society at large and dedicates much of her time outside the office to promoting mental health care and awareness through teaching, peer discussion, webinars and various other methods. She believes deeply that good mental health care is essential not only for interpersonal relationships and relationships with the self but also in the formation of a healthy dynamic of exchange on a global level.