Director: Pax Wassermann, Maya Seidler
Couples Therapy follows psychoanalyst Orna Guralnik as she sits, week after week, across from real couples working through the friction points of long-term partnership. Filmed largely in a single room, the 2025 documentary series trades scripted drama for something closer to actual therapy.
What is Couples Therapy about?
Each episode drops viewers into an ongoing session, picking up threads from the couple's history without narration or reenactment. Arguments stall, apologies land awkwardly, and silence gets as much screen time as speech. Guralnik occasionally steps outside the room to reflect on a session with her own supervisor, giving the audience a second layer: not just what the couples say, but how a clinician reads it. Four couples anchor the season, each carrying a different kind of strain, from resentment built over years to a rupture still raw enough to flinch at.
Cast & crew
Guralnik is the only credited on-camera participant who isn't a subject of the therapy itself, and her steady, unhurried presence sets the show's tone. Directors Pax Wassermann and Maya Seidler shoot with a restrained, observational camera that rarely cuts away from a difficult moment, letting silences run their natural length.
Context & significance
Couples Therapy arrived as part of a wave of documentary series built around real clinical sessions rather than staged confrontation, and its 8.4 IMDb rating reflects how many viewers found the unscripted format more affecting than conventional relationship television. Each episode runs about thirty minutes, closer to a session's natural rhythm than a typical hour-long format.
Where & how to watch
The series streams on K-Time with Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow every session in full. A K-Time account is required to watch; the page itself is open to read without one.