Diagnosing the Dark — When Monsters Mirror Mental Health

Step inside The Haunted Therapist’s candlelit clinic for a night of psychological case files on horror’s most infamous spirits and slashers. From Michael Myers’ emotional numbness to Carrie White’s suppressed rage, The Babadook’s grief, Norman Bates’ fractured identity, Pennywise’s narcissism, and Bring Her Back’s obsession with loss — each monster becomes a metaphor for unhealed trauma. Brett Harpp, LMHC-D, guides you through the therapeutic lens behind the fear, translating hauntings into human stories and offering the clinical interventions that could set them free. Because in therapy, like in horror, what you avoid will always come back.