Technology
Interventions
Learn to live with Technology,
not through it!
We are a behavioral healthcare team helping individual’s learn to combat emotional and mental health wellness in the technological era.
Some families opt for the ultra-expensive inpatient option. Unfortunately, the rate of “cure” is quite low while the amount of money spent is exceedingly high, with a high rate of “relapse.” Our outpatient intervention offers a middle ground approach that is customized and tailored to each person’s needs.
Why Encore’s
Outpatient Program
Seeing a therapist once or twice a week may not be enough to deal with a serious tech addiction, but sending your loved one to inpatient treatment for 30-90 days will be incredibly expensive and no guarantee of a “cure.” Technology is all around us and is needed to function in this world, so we have to learn to live with it. We believe that our outpatient approach not only offers a cost-effective solution, but also one that helps your loved one deeply integrate the lessons into everyday life so that they will carry forward and thus prevent relapse.
Our work with this problem has taught us that underneath the addictive behavior often lies a broad constellation of difficulties. Many of our clients struggle with a number of challenges, from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and anxiety, to bullying, social anxiety, and depression. We find that the people we help are often highly intelligent and capable but have struggled to find academic, career, and relationship success, often settling on their tech addiction of choice as an unhealthy substitute.
We do not simply try to modify behavior. We seek to understand all of our clients’ challenges and offer consultation and guidance that move toward treating the whole person. We find time and again, for example, that our clients often feel isolated from their communities, so we spend a lot of our energy trying to find ways to get them plugged in, not only involved in meaningful activities, but finding ways for them to actually help others and make their community a better place.
Internet Video Game Addiction
Outpatient Treatment
Our Services
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Customized and tailored treatment plan
We have found consistently that customization of a plan to the individual’s specific needs and those of the family is crucial.
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Consultation
Technology is all around us, unavoidable, and so dealing with this addiction requires a multi-pronged approach that involves identifying underlying mental health challenges, developing a solid plan of action, and supporting the entire family.
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Psychotherapy
Unresolved, and often undiscovered, issues usually underlie tech addiction, and psychotherapy comprises an integral part of our approach to identify and begin to change these issues.
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Psychological testing
Tech addiction is almost always accompanied by other mental health challenges–ADHD, anxiety, depression, ASD, social challenges, etc–and uncovering these must be part of any interventional strategy.
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Recommendation for Psychiatric services
The brain of an addicted individual can often be said to have gone “haywire,” and thus several types of medications can be helpful to deal with the addiction as well as underlying mental health challenges.
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Family therapy
In many cases, we have found that underneath the many layers of tech addiction, there are family dynamics that must be changed to support growth.
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Parent Support Group (individual)
The extraordinary difficulty of dealing with a tech addict means that parents often need ongoing support to help emotionally sustain them and to help them understand they are not alone.
We game. We post. We message. We TikTok. We binge. We isolate. Let our team help you overcome unhealthy or addictive behaviors.
Meet our team
The Encore Psychology team is a group of clinicians who provides quality mental health care. We offer psychotherapy and a variety of evaluation and consultation services including psychological and neuropsychological evaluations. We have extensive background and knowledge in treating addictions and providing treatment recommendations to help improve day-to-day functioning. To learn more about our therapy team, please visit the About Us page.
Kevin Roberts, MA, joined Encore Psychology Services in 2023. He has been a life Coach for over two decades, focusing largely on learning challenges and addiction, two areas that were the focus of his graduate work in neuroscience.
He has been involved in scientific studies examining underlying brain differences in people with tech addictions and has been featured on a number of television and radio programs including ABC’s 20/20 and BBC News.
Having worked through his own tech addictions, Kevin has been helping families through consultation, coaching, and support groups for the past 15 years and has authored two books on this subject: Cyber Junkie: Escape the Gaming and Internet Trap, and Get Off that Game Now: The Essential Guide to Healthy Screen Behavior. Kevin gets results where others fail because he understands the problem becomes personally, professionally, and has done extensive research on how addiction become wired in the brain.
Encore Psychology is a stepping stone on a lifelong journey of self-discovery and success.
We offer a consultation service and a wide range of packages to meet each
individual and family’s needs.
Connect with your life not your device: reach out today to learn more about our services.
