The couple is currently vacationing in Europe, and have spent some quality time in Italy, after being invited to a friend's wedding in Sicily.
22.06.2023 - 19:17 / variety.com
Todd Gilchrist editor On Showtime’s documentary series “Couples Therapy,” clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr. Orna Guralnik has served in many roles for her clients: sounding board, support system, referee, reality check and sometimes, an uncomfortable mirror. And she shares her insights in each capacity with plainspoken simplicity and with empathy. It’s what has made the show such a revelatory watch for her patients as well as viewers — it exemplifies the virtues of the therapeutic experience. “As a psychoanalyst, you want to really have the same distance from all the inner voices in the patient,” says Guralnik. “Otherwise, I try to really keep going back to a place of what we call neutrality. Now, that’s not always possible, but that’s the North Star. That’s where I try to go to.”
Series co-creators Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman and Eli Despres initially found Guralnik after embarking on what they call an “insane outreach” across New York City involving conversations with hundreds of potential candidates. “When I got on the phone with Orna, it took me only two minutes to know that she was the one,” Steinberg remembers. Adds Despres, “She’s an intimidating listener. She is so attuned to what people are saying and what they are not saying and picks up on things so quickly and with such erudition that it’s startling.” On a show that ran the risk of reducing therapy to voyeuristic entertainment, Kriegman says Guralnik possessed the exact quality they were most seeking about their endeavor: doubt. “She came to this project with a certain kind of skepticism, which is to say that she wasn’t interested in being on television,” he says. “It took a lot of conversation to discover that we kind of shared a certain
The couple is currently vacationing in Europe, and have spent some quality time in Italy, after being invited to a friend's wedding in Sicily.
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Kim Zolciak is heading back to Bravo.
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