Director: Pax Wassermann, Maya Seidler
Cast: Orna Guralnik
Couples Therapy is a 2025 American documentary series directed by Pax Wassermann and Maya Seidler, following renowned therapist Dr. Orna Guralnik as she works with four real couples across a season of weekly sessions — offering an unscripted, intimate look inside the hidden world of modern relationships.
What is Couples Therapy about?
Each episode of Couples Therapy places the camera inside an actual therapy room, where four very different couples confront the tensions, misunderstandings, and unspoken histories that have accumulated between them. Dr. Guralnik creates space for honest, sometimes painful exchanges that real partners rarely have in everyday life. The series resists the staged drama of reality television — no manufactured conflicts, no confessional cutaways. Instead, viewers witness genuine emotional reckonings: moments when long-held resentments surface, when partners truly hear each other for the first time, and when the possibility of lasting change becomes visible. The result is observational documentary at its most rigorous and quietly affecting.
Cast & crew
Dr. Orna Guralnik, the series' central figure, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst whose calm, incisive presence anchors every session. Directors Pax Wassermann and Maya Seidler crafted the series with a fly-on-the-wall intimacy, keeping the camera unobtrusive so the emotional dynamics between each couple can breathe and unfold without interference.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora, Couples Therapy resonates on multiple levels. Conversations about partnership, family obligation, communication across cultures, and the private strains that rarely get named are deeply familiar themes for Iranian communities navigating life abroad. The documentary format — real people, real stakes — lends it a weight that scripted drama cannot replicate. With a strong IMDB rating of 8.4 and a devoted international following, this series has earned its reputation as one of the most humane portraits of contemporary couplehood available on screen. It is available on K-Time with a full Persian dub as well as Persian subtitles, making it equally accessible whether you prefer to watch in Persian audio or read along.
Where & how to watch
Couples Therapy is available now on K-Time with Persian dub and Persian subtitles. Stream on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Start watching today and cancel anytime.