Natalie Gorman

**Natalie Gorman** is an unlicensed kinesthesiologist. She helped Dorothy Turner through a recent trauma, although Dorothy's husband, Sean, and her younger brother Julian, are dubious of the advice Natalie gives for Dorothy's sake regardless of her fragile mental state.

One year later, in late winter 2020, her expertise in therapy was explained to Dorothy when Sean was finally explaining to his confused and fearful wife about the purpose for the reborn doll in their lives since the previous summer of middle or late August until midwinter, the end of Christmas, December 25, 2019.

## General info

### Helping the Turners "Heal"

Once Natalie had introduced Dorothy to Transitive Object Therapy, giving her the Reborn Doll to act as a replacement for a real baby, she continued her kinesiologist work with Dorothy. Once Dorothy decided she wanted to move away from this towards Biofeedback Therapy, they decided they wanted to fire Natalie.

The situation was made worse when Natalie found out about the real baby that the Turners had since Leanne Grayson arrived. Natalie tried to tell Dorothy the truth about the baby to try to 'wake her up' but Julian and Sean moved the conversation away from that area to stop that from happening. Natalie spoke with Leanne about this and recommended she moved on to a more stable job.

After noticing Julian was struggling with the ordeal, she offered to help him and the pair were intimate in the Turner's cellar. That night, she went home with Julian.

In the aftermath of Jericho and Leanne disappearing, Natalie is briefed by Julian in what to say to the police officers when they come to investigate where Jericho has gone. The story is as follows: Dorothy is rejecting the doll, thus explaining her behavior, which is a positive step towards healing. The family are pleading denial as to a baby existing.

When they arrive at the Turner house, Natalie speaks to an officer to explain the situation using the prearranged story. After some convincing, the officer leaves and Natalie and Julian sit with Sean and Dorothy to discuss next steps. Natalie agrees with Julian that it is not a good idea to search for May Markham, leader of The Church of the Lesser Saints, and Jericho as this way Dorothy can be allowed to grieve.

### Hypnosis

Natalie is called over to the Turner house again to hypnotize Roscoe to see if she can get him to reveal his experiences with The Church of the Lesser Saints in the period between the baptism party and the present day. Natalie decides to do this, though pointing out to Julian that he always mocks her about hypnosis, not believing in it himself. The three go down to the basement and the hypnosis session begins. Natalie asks Roscoe to hold out his hands and resist pressure on them from hers while counting down from 100. Before he reaches 90, he becomes hypnotized.

Roscoe reveals his experiences to the group and Natalie becomes concerned that Roscoe is getting very agitated and calls for the session to be called off. With Sean pressuring Roscoe, Natalie does eventually call the session off and consoles Roscoe afterwards, making sure he is all right. She later talks to Sean and Julian, disputing claims by Julian that Roscoe is lying, claiming herself that she has seen cases like this before and they turn out to be true.

### Helping Julian

Later, Natalie talks alone with Julian and they discuss why Julian is searching for Jericho. She does not believe it when he says because of Dorothy, and says it is because of something else. She says to Julian she has tried everything with him, and that he must believe in something in order to her to help him. On Christmas Day, she leaves a voicemail for him, which causes him to suddenly overdose but was successfully restored to life by Leanne's unspecified supernatural abilities.

## Appearances

#### Season One

* Haggis (debut)
* Balloon

#### Season Two

* Doll
* Spaceman (final appearance)

## Trivia

* Fans are disappointed that she did not make an appearance in the finale, being only in just four episodes of the show.

## Quotes

#### Season One

* "I thought I heard a noise. Was that Leanne?"
* "You hired a nanny, Sean? For a doll?"
* "Delusion. That doll was supposed to be a temporary measure. I already explained it's not a cure and it's not a solution."
* "I know you don't wanna face this, neither of us do. But the longer we leave it, the harder it's gonna be. We did what we thought was right at time. but this has gone to far. We need to wake Dorothy up."
* "Actually, Dorothy it hasn't been that. Maybe we-"
* "Why do i feel like you're both trying obstruct me?"
* "Dorothy, we need to talk. I need you to hear me when I say: You are not well."
* "We have caused irreparable harm to that woman."
* "Still here, Leanne?"
* "Might as well play along and hold him once in awhile."

#### Season Two

* "Is Dorothy upstairs?"
* "Good."
* "Dorothy has created this impenetrable bubble protecting her from the truth."
* "Look, what happened to Dorothy, it was unthinkable."
* "Kinesologiest and close friend."
* "Just zonked herself out; put some melotonin in her tea."
* "I agree with Julian. Maybe we should recognize this for what it is."
* "To move forward, to let Dorothy grieve."
* "You love her and that's why you're doing this. But she's grieving the wrong child."
* "He was never yours to keep!"
* "Julian, anything you wanna say to me?"
* "Well, every time I do hypnotherapy, Julian always disregards it."