The rise of Geek Therapy: How sci-fi and fantasy can help us cope The pioneer of a therapy model which uses nerd culture to allow patients to open up explains how it works 26 January 2021 • 7:02pm Josué Cardona, founder of Geek Therapy, finds Matt Smith's Doctor Who particularly relatable Credit: Will Pearson/BBC One day, when I was working as a child mental health counselling intern in New York City, I found a Nintendo Wii among some other games in a cupboard. I asked my supervisor if I could start using it for group activities, but she refused. As an act of rebellion, I went home and decided to start a website just to document why she was wrong about the positive applications of video games and other staples of geek culture. I called it Geek Therapy.