Dates & Mates with Damona Hoffman Couples Therapy & Dr. Orna Guralnik: Rewind
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May 27, 2025 
Dr. Orna Guralnik, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst known for her work on Couples Therapy, shares insights from her decades in relationship dynamics. She discusses the significance of unconscious motivations in shaping connections and how societal shifts around privilege affect intimacy. Curiosity, she argues, is essential for emotional healing. Orna highlights the importance of listening in therapy and emphasizes that real change often starts with altering one's own behavior in relationships.
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Therapy Is Created By The Space
- Orna Guralnik emphasizes that therapy's power comes from creating a space where people naturally want to share.
- She says deep listening lets clients reveal layers they didn't know they carried.
Listen For Unconscious Motivations
- Psychodynamic work focuses on unconscious motivations rather than just behaviors and consequences.
- Use psychoanalytic listening to discover hidden traumas, conflicts, and inherited family patterns.
Beginner's Mind Meets Clinical Experience
- Orna combines a beginner's mind with seasoned theory to notice both patterned and surprising couple dynamics.
- She tracks family history, attachment, trauma, personality and societal background simultaneously.