Catherine OHara plays Joels therapist in Jackson, Wyoming.

Showrunner Craig Mazinrecently told GamesRadar+, Wouldnt everyone need a therapist?

Yeah, therapy would be an incredibly valuable thing.

Isabela Merced and Dina from The Last of Us on an orange background

After decades living through the apocalypse people shouldn’t look this good.

The interesting thing about therapy is not everybody walks in there and tells the truth.

I think therapists know that better than anyone.

Ellie and Dina sit together in The Last of Us Season 2.

So what does he choose to say?

What, how does he define his problem?

A lot of people lie in therapy to their therapists, yes, but also to themselves.

Joel Miller from The Last Of Us split game and TV show.

You have to find those cognitive distortions so that fix them.

Joel has a very major one that decision he made on Ellies behalf.

We see it in the trailer, when he seemingly insists to his therapist that he saved her.

Pedro Pascal as Joel in HBO’s The Last of Us, sitting on a therapist’s sofa.

But even if it doesnt, this addition still has value.

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Joel having a panic attack

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