Virtual Therapy for Technology Overuse in New York
Reclaim Your Attention. Break Automatic Screen Habits.
Mindful Screen Use for Adults is a structured online therapy group, ten weekly sessions and eight members, to pause, reflect, and take a clear look at how screens fit into your life.
Are screens quietly consuming your day? Does the urge to check devices feel impossible to resist, even when you are actively trying to disconnect?
Technology overuse exists on a spectrum, ranging from deeply ingrained habits to the patterns many describe as screen addiction. These habits are often the direct result of navigating an engineered digital world designed to capture and monetize your constant engagement.
The group is where you begin to reclaim your attention, week by week, alongside others with similar goals.
The Role of Group Therapy
Individual therapy offers targeted personal work. Group therapy adds something different: it directly counters the isolation at the heart of technology overuse.
The cohort gives you a supportive place to interrupt automatic habits and build a steady internal calm through real human connection.
Core Focus Areas
Designed exclusively for adults, this 10-week cohort offers a structured space to build rest, ease digital fatigue, and reset your daily routines:
- Understand the why: Look clearly at the psychology behind compulsive screen use and how platforms are designed to hold your attention.
- Break automatic habits: Interrupt the urge to check your phone and step away from reactive scrolling.
- Reclaim your focus: Direct your time, attention, and energy back toward your real priorities.
- Build lasting balance: Create a realistic, long-term framework for living intentionally in a connected world.
What This Cohort Is, and Is Not
This program is a structured therapeutic cohort providing education and practical, actionable tools to help you become more intentional about how you spend your time online. Rather than treating screens as the whole problem, we will explore and discuss what draws us to them.
Through discussion, gentle experiential exercises, and somatic practices to restore internal calm and rest, you will begin to learn to unwind naturally, build your capacity to handle daily stress and quiet a hyper-stimulated mind.
This is not a passive support group or a basic skills class. It is an active, professionally guided therapeutic space focused on meaningful habit change.
Who This Is For
Adults located anywhere in New York State who feel controlled by their devices and want a more deliberate relationship with them.
Mindful Screen Use Group Benefits
- A Restored Attention Span: Grounded practices to clear cognitive fatigue, quiet racing thoughts, and rebuild your capacity to focus deeply.
- A Calmer Body: Somatic tools to settle an overstimulated system, and break the automated loop of reactive scrolling.
- Firm Internal Boundaries: Clear psychological frameworks to step away from the screen, protect personal time, and tolerate stillness.
- Authentic Connection: A welcoming group space to connect meaningfully with others, stepping away from online noise into shared understanding.
- Profound, Natural Rest: Practical methodologies to reset your sleep architecture so that periods of rest leave you feeling genuinely replenished.
Program Details and Enrollment Logistics
Led by Carole Shepherd, LCSW-R, LMT, RYT, SEP, founder of the practice.
- Time Commitment: 10 weeks of live, 90-minute virtual sessions.
- Intimate Setting: Strictly limited to a maximum of 8 participants to ensure a dedicated, personalized therapeutic environment.
- Upcoming Cohort: The next cohort begins February 2027.
- Finances: Private-pay; superbills provided on request. Questions about fees, insurance, or telehealth are answered on the FAQ page.