Profession
Psychoanalyst, Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in both Pasadena and Beverly Hills, California. Dr. Marshall is the author of Deal Breakers: When to Work on a Relationship and When to Walk Away, Simon Spotlight, 2007.

Television experience
Weekly national television exposure for the past six years. Dr. Marshall is a weekly commentator on HLN’s The Nancy Grace Show and an ongoing contributor on ABC’s Good Morning America and HLN’s The Joy Behar Show. She has been on many other shows, including Keeping Up With the Kardashians, E! News, and CBS’s The Early Show.

Radio experience
Expert psychological commentary/taking calls on Leeza Gibbon’s nationally syndicated radio shows Hollywood Confidential and Leeza Live for the past six years.

Magazine experience
Dr. Marshall is an ongoing sex and relationships contributor for Marie Claire, Women's Health, Elle, and Cosmopolitan.

Areas of expertise

• Relationship issues (family conflict, marriage counseling, dating, friendship)
• Obsessions/compulsions (eating disorders, sex addiction, hoarding)
• Individual issues (overcoming trauma and self-limitations, achieving life success)
• Forensic psychology (domestic abuse, sexual abuse, mindset of the perpetrator)

On-camera strengths
Live TV, on-camera counseling, analyzing the news of the day, celebrity analysis, and taking live calls.

About Dr. Bethany
Dr. Marshall was born in DR Congo, Africa (formerly Zaire) where her family was involved in humanitarian work. She received a Bachelors in Fine Arts from Judson University in Chicago, Illinois (1983), a Masters of Divinity and a Masters in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA (1987) and both a Doctor of Psychoanalysis and a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychoanalysis from the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (2006).