Dr. Orna Guralnik

I'm 62.

First of all, is that like a well-known thing now in the industry?

It's interesting.

I had to go through a very long process of convincing the directors of the series for them to understand why it's important for me not to be a person with a lot of personality and personal details on the show.

The idea is basically to allow my patients, whether it's on the show or my actual patients in my private practice, to have the freedom to not have to worry about me, not have to have my personal details on their mind when they're exploring their own stuff.

It's basically to free up some space for people to...

Just do their own work.

You know, when you know a lot of details about another person, you start thinking about them, caring about them, being concerned.

I want people to feel free to just like do what they need to do and for me to be their therapist.

And refraining from kind of indulging with your personal life is a very important aspect of it.

I think for my private practice patients, me being suddenly like a therapist on TV, it's difficult.

They're probably paying the biggest price

for me having decided to do this.

I don't know if you guys have been in therapy, but you like to think of your therapist as your person, not like you're sharing them with a million other people and with, you know, you don't like your mom watching your therapist on TV and making comments.

it's, it's a lot of, they have to share me.

The person is yours.

I mean, in a way the therapist is yours, but it kind of rubs your face in the fact that the therapist has more going on.

Yeah, definitely.

I was surprised by, I mean, I'm not aware of the whole TikTok world.

I don't go on TikTok and I don't know what's going on there with me being on TikTok.