Psychiatrist, columnist, best-selling author and television commentator Gail Saltz, MD, has been called "a voice of wisdom and insight in a world of confusion and contradictions" by Tom Brokaw. Dr. Saltz is the regular mental health, sex and relationship contributor to the Today show, for which she hosts the weekly "On the Couch" segment and participates as the expert guest in a range of other related discussions. In addition, she writes a weekly relationship column for MSNBC.com, is a regular contributor to Good Housekeeping, Parade and O, The Oprah Magazine, and serves as a frequent contributor to A&E's Biography programs. In 2004, Dr. Saltz began hosting a series at the famed 92nd Street Y, where she interviews celebrities and extraordinary individuals about psychologically interesting issues. To date, she has spoken with such luminaries as Woody Allen, Tom Brokaw, Katie Couric, Arianna Huffington, Nora Efron, Sharon Osbourne, Gail Sheehy, Rosie O'Donnell and others.

Gaining a reputation as the go-to person on a variety of psychological issues, especially those pertaining to women's emotional well-being, Dr. Saltz has appeared repeatedly on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dateline, CBS News, Fox News, Health News and CNN. She has been featured or quoted by the Associated Press, Newsweek, Harper's Bazaar, Redbook, Woman's World, Town & Country, New York magazine, the New York Times, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

Dr. Saltz is the author of the critically acclaimed Becoming Real: Defeating the Stories We Tell Ourselves That Hold Us Back, Anatomy of a Secret Life: The Psychology of Living a Lie and a children's book, Amazing You! Getting Smart About Your Private Parts.

A Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at The New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill-Cornell School of Medicine, Dr. Saltz is a psychoanalyst with The New York Psychoanalytic Institute and has a private practice on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She lives in New York with her husband and three daughters.