Ivana Mrgan is a licensed CBT therapist and clinical psychologist with over 15 years of experience in counseling, academic advising, psychological assessment, differential and psychoeducational diagnostics in both higher education as well as clinical settings. Her experience brings an interdisciplinary approach together with added skills in crisis intervention and stress management to complement her experience in diagnosing and treating several mental health disorders across the pediatric and adult populations. Her previous working engagements include psychological assessment, career guidance, counseling and psychotherapy in the retail industry, educational settings and private practice. She had practiced in Qatar since 2018 in the field of guidance counseling, coordinating special educational needs in an international school and working in clinical setting focused on assessment, counseling, and therapy. In 2025 she rejoined Apsiha Psychotherapy community mental health center in Croatia as a co-founder and behavioral health specialist. Given her experience in brief counseling modality, she is also actively providing services around corporate wellbeing.
Having attained therapy certification under the Croatian Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the European Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies in 2016, she also implements Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and other third wave CBT approaches which she complements with Schema therapy as an ISST licensed psychotherapist. She completed her MSc program focused on Clinical Psychology in 2022 with her thesis devoted to effectiveness of culturally sensitive psychotherapy. She consults in Croatian and English language.