Addiction Specialism
Gaming & Internet Addiction Therapy
Understand attention-capturing digital patterns and develop healthier technology boundaries, supported by clinical and videogame industry experience.
Presenting Challenges
Are you or a loved one experiencing these patterns?
- 01.Losing track of hours online or gaming, leading to severe sleep deprivation and neglected responsibilities.
- 02.Social isolation, withdrawal from real-world relationships, and loss of interest in offline hobbies.
- 03.Experiencing high levels of irritability, restlessness, or low mood when forced to disconnect from screens.
- 04.Struggling with compulsive scrolling or checking patterns that feel difficult to regulate.
Therapeutic Approach
How we work together to restore agency:
- ✓Drawing on my prior career as a videogame producer to dissect how digital products are intentionally designed to capture attention and exploit habit loops.
- ✓Collaborating to introduce practical, non-punitive physical and digital 'friction boundaries' to interrupt automated scrolling or playing.
- ✓Developing nervous system regulation skills to manage the boredom, loneliness, or stress that triggers escape into screens.
- ✓Using ACT and values-based living concepts to slowly rebuild a meaningful, active real-world routine.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does your game industry background help in therapy?
Before retraining as a psychologist, I worked as a producer in the videogame and software industry. That experience helps me recognise common reward schedules, reduced stopping points and other features used to encourage continued engagement. We can examine how those features interact with your circumstances without reducing the problem to either product design or personal weakness.
Is the goal to get me to stop using technology completely?
No. Unlike some chemical addictions where complete abstinence is standard, total digital abstinence is rarely practical in modern life. Our goal is tech hygiene and digital wellbeing—re-establishing agency over how, when, and why you use screens so that technology supports your life rather than consuming it.
What approaches can help with problematic internet use?
Depending on your needs, therapy may draw on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to examine screen-linked habits, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to practise responding to urges, and regulation strategies for difficult internal states. We review whether the approach is helping rather than assuming one model suits everyone.
Let's discuss how we can work together
I offer a free, no-obligation 15-minute phone conversation to explore your needs, answer your questions, and see how we might work together.