DR ORNA Guralnik is an psychologist and psychoanalyst, who hosts Showtime's hit show: Couples Therapy. In the show, she helps couples unpack the issues in their relationship. Some of the issues that she tackles on the show are amongst the newest and most complex problems facing couples today.
So who is the TV star and what is her own relationship like? Parental psychology Orna is an Israeli-American psychologist and psychoanalyst. She grew up in Tel Aviv (against the backdrop of the Yom Kippur War) and often found herself being the mediator for her parents when they argued. Read more on BBC shows The psychoanalyst told The New Yorker : “I was developing my analytic mind very early.
I always joke that they were my first couple to be treated." Initially, Orna wanted to be an actress but a trip to therapy when she was 16 set her on the path of becoming a psychologist herself. Decades of experience The future TV star moved to New York in 1990 to study clinical psychology at Yeshiva University, before completing her PHD at New York University.
Since graduating, she has researched the psychology behind couples' relationships and has become one of the most knowledgeable psychologists in her field. Most read in News TV She revealed some of her working process to Variety magazine . Orna said: “As a psychoanalyst, you want to really have the same distance from all the inner voices in the patient.
" “Otherwise, I try to really keep going back to a place of what we call neutrality. .