‘Couples Therapy’ host Orna Guralnik: How to improve communication

Any newly therapized couple will tell you “everybody should go to therapy.”  Orna Guralnik doesn’t agree. The New York-based psychoanalyst and host of the show “Couples Therapy” says many partnerships don’t need professional guidance — at least, until they do. “I don’t think people should wait forever,” she says. “I think if they’re getting stuck […]

The No. 1 communication mistake couples make—and how to avoid it

Marriage psychologists, divorce lawyers, and therapists all say that struggling romantic relationships have one thing in common: bad communication. On a recent episode of the podcast “Ten Percent Happier,” host Dan Harris interviewed Charles Duhigg, a journalist and author of the new book “Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection” about why people […]

How to handle an unfairly bad performance review

Do you need to work on your time management skills, or does your boss need to give you adequate time to complete your tasks? Your poor performance review may be more reflective of your boss than of you, says Farah Harris, a Flossmoor, Illinois-based psychotherapist and author. “We have to be careful [because] sometimes we […]