Clinical Consultation for Licensed Mental Health Professionals

The Technology Treatment Practice offers advanced clinical consultation for therapists who want to deepen their work with adults whose technology use has become a clinical concern. Consultation bridges attachment, behavioral, and neurobiological frameworks into clear, real-world application, with a focus on technology overuse, habitual device use, and presentations often described as internet addiction.

Sessions provide a dedicated space to think through the interplay of screen habits, trauma history, and dissociative process, so that interventions are well grounded. Attention is given to the physiological state of the client, somatic responses in the room, and the subtle dynamics of the therapeutic relationship.

Core Integrated Modalities and Frameworks:

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Applying acceptance, defusion, and values work to the urge to check, so that a client's time with technology begins to reflect intention rather than impulse. 

Internal Family Systems (IFS): Working with the protective parts that keep a client reaching for a device, and the burdens beneath them.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Structuring urge-focused protocols such as DeTUR and FSAP, and standard trauma processing, for clients whose screen use has become automatic.

Somatic Practices: Using nervous system regulation and somatic tracking to anchor the work when the urge to check arrives before thought.

Relational and Attachment Theory: Examining transferential dynamics to maintain clarity and alignment within the therapeutic bond.

As the cultural landscape shifts, modern clinical practice faces unprecedented challenges. This consultation is designed for clinicians working with adults, a population most training on technology overuse leaves out. 

The cases are familiar: the professional whose evenings disappear into a phone, the client whose anxiety treatment stalls because the scrolling continues, the patient who presents with sleep, attention, or relationship concerns that turn out to have a screen underneath them. Consultation offers practical insight into how heavy technology use shapes a client's physiology and attention, alongside tailored strategies for adapting therapeutic modalities to clients caught in entrenched digital habits. 

Group trainings and workshops for clinicians and medical providers are listed on the Trainings page. 

Consultation is a collaborative, confidential space for professional reflection and the refinement of therapeutic skill, offered in a direct, plain-language style. Sessions examine the physiological responses and countertransferential dynamics that arise in intense clinical work, supporting clarity, insight, and sustainable professional boundaries. Consultation is available virtually and in New York.

For EMDR consultation toward EMDRIA certification, and for consultation centered on trauma and dissociation, see Clinical Consultation at Carole Shepherd Psychotherapy.