Dr. Egle Carobbio

Dr. Egle Carobbio is an English-speaking clinical psychologist in Bergamo. She receives patients in person in Bergamo and works online with people living elsewhere in Italy and abroad, in English and Italian, with adults, couples and families.

She graduated with top honours in Clinical Psychology from the University of Bergamo, and extended her training internationally with programmes at the University of Guildford in the United Kingdom and at a Harvard-affiliated institute in the United States.

Her specialism is psychocorporeal relaxation techniques, and it is more specific than the phrase suggests. She holds a master in relaxation techniques and works as a clinical practitioner of autogenic training, progressive neuromuscular relaxation, visualisation and mindfulness. For anxiety, panic attacks and stress, these methods work on the body directly rather than waiting for insight to reach it.

She works with individuals and couples through crisis and personal growth, runs small-group psychoeducation, and provides hospital-based counselling. She supports patients and caregivers facing illness, chronic conditions and bereavement, and is co-founder of InfoAlzheimer.eu, an initiative for dementia caregivers, advocating non-pharmacological approaches in elderly care. Caregivers are the population most consistently left without support of their own.

She collaborates on university research into mental health interventions for young adults, published in Clinical Practice & Epidemiology in Mental Health, and works in university counselling. She also works on work-related stress and organisational consulting, with a master in healthcare management.

She is the author of Controtransfert. Manipolazione e seduzione (2022), a book on the emotional dynamics inside the therapeutic relationship. Her approach is integrative: psychocorporeal methods, mindfulness, therapeutic writing and multisensory techniques, with a strong emphasis on the therapeutic alliance itself.

You do not have to pick her yourself. At Therapsy every person is matched by a human being, not by an algorithm: our clinical team reads your request, and if Dr. Carobbio is the right fit for what you are bringing, they will introduce you. The first call is free, and it is there to check that the fit is real before anything begins.

Fewer than 1 in 100 therapists joins the Therapsy team. Dr. Carobbio was personally vetted by our Clinical Director, Dr. Francesca A. Boccalari, on three non-negotiable criteria: she shares our values, she speaks at least one language beyond Italian, and she has a physical practice in Bergamo where you can meet in person, not only online.

Egle Carobbio does not work alone. She takes part in Therapsy’s internal clinical supervision, a standing group where therapists bring their most demanding cases, train together and ask for help when a situation calls for it. Every therapist in the network, Case Managers included, can turn to our Clinical Director for clinical questions and further training, and Therapsy runs regular professional training with senior therapists and external trainers. Scheduling, invoicing, payments and the rest of the paperwork are handled by Therapsy, so that her time with you stays clinical work and nothing else. On your side, the same platform gives you one place to see your sessions, invoices, payments and documents.

At Therapsy you do not have to pick your therapist from a list: you start by speaking with Dr. Francesca Boccalari, our Clinical Director, who listens to what you are going through and matches you with the therapist she believes is right for you: Egle Carobbio, or one of her colleagues. Then you have a free introductory call with that therapist, and only after that do you decide whether to start.

And if the fit turns out not to be right, you are not back at square one. Dr. Boccalari and her team find you another therapist inside Therapsy, at no cost, without you having to tell your story from the beginning. Choosing a therapist while you are struggling, in a language that is not your own, is a lot to ask of a person. That is the part we take on.

Dr. Carobbio is registered with the Italian Order of Psychologists. She receives in Bergamo and works online with patients across Italy and abroad.