Tell Me Why You’re Here

How does therapy really work? What does it sound like, and how does it help? In this weekly series of unscripted, improvised therapy sessions, psychoanalyst Eugenio Duarte takes you inside the therapy room to listen in on what happens between therapist and patient. He also takes you inside his mind, to hear how he makes sense of it all—or not. The patients and the dilemmas they bring to Eugenio are fictional, but what unfolds between them is spontaneous and real.

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Episode 2: Chip and I Go Into the Woods Aug 27, 2026

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Chip returns, and we delve right in. We explore his preference for the coolness of structure and predictability, and his avoidance of the fiery spark of surprise. Yet surprise still finds us—as his unconscious takes us into the woods of his childhood. There, we encounter icy giants, friendly dwarves, and how these figures are also parts of him. What at first seems like a wayward path turns out to be the way through—to a place where Chip can think about how hot and cold, ritual and unpredictability, restraint and surrender might live within himself.

Episode 1: Chip Wants to Feel Desire—and Doesn't Aug 24, 2026

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Chip, a 48-year-old gay lawyer, comes in because he can’t seem to meet anyone who sparks his romantic interest. When we delve into what he actually feels with men on dates—and with me—it turns out he feels a lot more desire than he realized. And when we talk about how it plays out between us, his anxiety and vulnerability surface, and we can start working with what’s really standing in his way.

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