History Main / AllTherapistsAreMuggles

* Inverted in ''Film/TheRageCarrie2''. School psychologist Sue Snell, having survived [[{{Carrie}} the first film]], is the first person to realize that Rachel has PsychicPowers. Everybody else only finds out [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge much too late]].

* {{Subverted}} in ''YoungJustice''--BlackCanary is apparently a therapist in this continuity and has counseling sessions with each Team member after the traumatic events of "Failsafe."

** In the pages of SpiderMan, the third character to adopt the Green Goblin identity was a therapist named Bart Hamilton. Hamilton was originally the thera[ist for NormanOsborn's son Harry. His life of super-villainy was short lived, however.

* In TheSarahConnorChronicles, John Connor and Cameron both see a therapist as part of a plot to [[spoiler:kidnap a terminator's daughter]]. The psychiatrist quickly diagnoses the teenaged John with something like ShellShock because he checks the exists like a combat veteran and he wonders if Cameron is autistic. John has real problems but he can't be honest with the therapist about them. Naturally, the therapist correctly identifies him as a liar.

* The cast of ''Videogame/{{Persona}}'' is a group of teens who frequently go into a twisted, bloody version of their school where they are in danger of being killed by ''their repressed feelings'' and fight monsters by shooting themselves in the head with guns that fire ''psychological trauma''. Ken is so bad he was going to commit suicide after getting his revenge against a certain individual. But since no therapist would believe them about the Dark Hour, they’re on their own.

* The police psychiatrist in ''Film/{{Terminator}}'' and the hospital administrator in ''Terminator 2'' aren't for one moment going to take stories of time-traveling killer androids seriously.

* In the FilmOfTheBook ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia: PrinceCaspian'', Peter and his siblings lived into adulthood in Narnia, a magical land inside a wardrobe, and now are stuck in a world that treats them as children so despite having problems like getting into fights and struggling to relate to other people, trying to explain those issues to a [[Muggle]] therapist would probably get them sectioned.

** There's also Moonstone from ''Comicbook/ThunderBolts'', but she's more likely to deliberately make your problems worse for her own fun and profit than to try to help you.

* In MarvelComics, there is ''one'' non-Muggle psychologist: Doc Samson, whom apparently all the supers in the world consult with their problems[[note]](there are others in the know with such training, but [[MindRape their usual]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy standards of treatment]] are worse than most conceivable psychological problems)[[/note]]. Except not lately, because Doc Samson has been evil, dead or both.
** There's also Moonstone, but she's more likely to deliberately make your problems worse for her own fun and profit than to try to help you.

* The police psychiatrist in ''Film/{{Terminator}}'' and the hospital administrator in ''Terminator 2'' aren't for one moment going to take stories of time-traveling killer cyborgs seriously.

* In ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', Suzie went to a support group to talk through her work-related issues but due to [[{{Masquerade}} the need for secrecy]], she had to drug her confidant [[LaserGuidedAmnesia to make him forget]] and [[spoiler:unfortunately, this turned him into an AxCrazy serial killer.]]

* In ''Series/Sliders'', all the sliders need therapy, given that they (usually permanently) leave one universe for another every couple of days and the experience isn't always pleasant. Hell, the original sliders' home Earth is now in the hands of a bloodthirsty humanoid race with a taste for human eyeballs. Only one episode involves a visit to a shrink, and that one involves Rembrandt needing to vent his doubts about whether Professor Arturo is "their" Arturo. The shrink thinks that Rembrandt is completely nuts and calls a mental hospital to commit him. After witnessing a slide, he himself suffers a breakdown and is taken away.

'''Sam:''' Probably because I started the apocalypse.\\

-->-- ''Supernatural'', "Sam; Interrupted"

* Fakir and Rue from ''PrincessTutu'' could definitely use some therapy considering their [[ParentalAbandonment issues]], but they'd have to find a therapist who would be able to swallow the idea that part of their problems stem from being characters in a fairytale.

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] regularly in the HarryPotter fandom to explain why the many characters with serious issues and traumatic backgrounds can’t get therapy.

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the author's notes of [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4004316/10/Windows_of_the_Soul "Windows of the Soul"]], a ''MaiHime'' fanfic that deals with Shizuru's lingering guilt over her actions late in the series and the implications they have for her relationship with Natsuki.

* The psychiatrist consulted in ''TheMask'' doesn't believe that the mask could have any supernatural properties.

* In ''{{Blade}} 3'', a famous psychologist goes on record on TV that Blade is crazy... but it's revealed that he's a Familiar to the ruling vampires (basically their stooge).
* Played straight and subverted in ''ANightmareOnElmStreet 3'', in that one of the therapists trying to help the Freddy-plagued kids is actually willing to admit the possibility they [[spoiler:and Nancy]] encounter a supernatural threat. The other, unfortunately, assumes they're delusional and has one of them sedated: the ''worst'' possible outcome of this trope, under the circumstances.
** Inverted in ''Freddy vs. Jason'': [[spoiler:The mental hospital staff in Springwood know damn well that Freddy is for real, and use Hypnocil and fraudulent institutionalization of witnesses to ensure that Freddy's potential victims remain Muggles. That way, the dream-stalking killer can't gain strength from their fear.]]
* The police psychiatrist in ''{{Terminator}}'' and the hospital administrator in ''Terminator 2'' aren't for one moment going to take stories of time-traveling killer cyborgs seriously.

* [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] sees a counselor in season 2 who has no idea about vampires and the like, though he turns out to be a pretty good counselor anyway, and figures out what her problem essentially is minus the supernatural elements. [[spoiler:Then he gets killed by a Hulk expy.]]

* The cast of ''{{Persona}}'' is a group of teens who frequently go into a twisted, bloody version of their school where they are in danger of being killed by ''their repressed feelings'' and fight monsters by shooting themselves in the head with guns that fire ''psychological trauma''. Ken is so bad he was going to commit suicide after getting his revenge against a certain individual. But since no therapist would believe them about the Dark Hour, they’re on their own.

->''"Dr. Fuller: Why don’t you tell me how you’re feeling?\\
Sam: I'm fine. I mean, okay, a little depressed, I guess.\\
Dr. Fuller: Alright – any idea why?\\
Sam: Probably because I started the apocalypse.\\
…(Doctor smiles weakly, then picks up his phone)."''
-->-- '''Supernatural''', "Sam; Interrupted"

Sometimes, characters needs therapy to cope with what's happened to them, but the events they would need to talk about are part of some [[TheMasquerade Big Secret]] that would sound delusional to outsiders. Unfortunately, there are no therapists that ''aren't'' outsiders.

To make matters worse, the character can’t or won’t creatively edit their story. Maybe to add insult to injury, the author finishes an adventure by winding back time so only this character remembers what happened or has them followed by a shadowy government agency charged with enforcing TheMasquerade.

You ''could'' try and get the help you need anyways but your {{Muggle}} therapist will probably get quite the wrong idea. Cue men in white coats wrestling you into a straight jacket.

Options remaining: Go AxCrazy, [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil Join]] TheDarkSide, Die [[DrivenToSuicide at your own hand]] or [[SuicideMission another's]], [[LaserGuidedAmnesia Take]] [[RedPillBluePill the blue]] [[TheMatrix pill]], be KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade

[[folder: Fanworks]]
* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] regularly in the Harry Potter fandom to explain why the many characters with serious issues and traumatic backgrounds can’t get therapy.

* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in the ''HarryPotter'' fanfic "[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4842696/1/Reparations Reparations]]", Draco Malfoy is a therapist in the drug rehab wing of St Mungo's and argues that wizards have to have their own rehab because if wizards only had muggle therapists and groups, they would have to edit magic out of their accounts and that would sabotage the process and doom the patient to failure.
* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the author's notes of [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4004316/10/Windows_of_the_Soul Windows of the Soul]], a MaiHime fanfic that deals with Shizuru's lingering guilt over her actions late in the series and the implications they have for her relationship with Natsuki.

[[folder:Comics]]
* In MarvelComics there is ''one'' non-Muggle psychologist (Doc Samson) who apparently every super in the world goes to with their problems[[note]](there are others in the know with such training, but [[MindRape their usual]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy standards of treatment]] are worse than most conceivable psychological problems)[[/note]]. Except not lately, because he has been evil and/or dead.

[[folder: Film]]
* The psychiatrist consulted in TheMask doesn't believe that the mask could have any supernatural properties.

* In {{Blade}} 3, a famous psychologist goes on record on TV that Blade is crazy... only for it to be revealed he's a Familiar to the ruling vampires (basically their stooge).
* Played straight and subverted in ''ANightmareOnElmStreet 3'', in that one of the therapists trying to help the Freddy-plagued kids is actually willing to admit the possibility they [[spoiler: and Nancy]] are faced with a supernatural threat. The other, unfortunately, assumes they're delusional and has one of them sedated: the ''worst'' possible outcome of this trope, under the circumstances.
** Inverted in ''Freddy vs. Jason'': [[spoiler: the mental-hospital staff in Springwood know damn well that Freddy is for real, and use Hypnocil and fraudulent institutionalization of witnesses to ensure that Freddy's potential victims remain Muggles. That way, the dream-stalking killer can't gain strength from their fear.]]
* The police psychiatrist in {{Terminator}} and the hospital administrator in {{Terminator}} 2 aren't for one moment going to take stories of time-traveling killer cyborgs seriously.

[[folder: Literature]]

[[folder: Live Action TV]]

* Subverted on an episode of OutOfThisWorld. Evie goes to therapy and brings her mom and dad, or at least, the glowing crystal that her alien dad communicates through. The therapist is very much a muggle but believes them and they appeal to doctor/patient confidentiality to keep their secret safe.
* [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] sees a counselor in season 2 who has no idea about vampires and the like, though he turns out to be a pretty good counselor anyway, and figures out what her problem essentially is minus the supernatural elements. [[spoiler: Then he gets killed by a Hulk expy.]]

[[folder: Video Games]]
* ''{{Persona}}'''s cast is a group of teens who frequently go into a twisted, bloody version of their school where they are in danger of being killed by ''their repressed feelings'' and fight monsters by shooting themselves in the head with guns that fire ''psychological trauma''. Ken is so bad he was going to commit suicide after getting his revenge against a certain individual. But since no therapist would believe them about the Dark Hour, they’re on their own.

* Double-Subverted in {{Blade}} 3: a famous psychologist goes on record on TV that Blade is crazy... only for it to be revealed he's a Familiar to the ruling vampires (basically their stooge).

* Inverted in {{Blade}} 3: a famous psychologist goes on record on TV that Blade is crazy... only for it to be revealed he's a Familiar to the ruling vampires (basically their stooge).

* In MarvelComics there is ''one'' non-Muggle psychologist (Doc Samson) who apparently every super in the world goes to with their problems. Except not lately, because he has been evil and/or dead.

…(Doctor smiles weakly, then picks up his phone)."''\\
--> -- ''Supernatural'', "Sam; Interrupted"