Helping Clients Navigate Digital Overwhelm in Private Practice | Eli Singer | TPOT 425
From The Practice of Therapy Podcast by Gordon Brewer, MEd, LMFT: Therapist | Consultant | Writer | Speaker
March 23, 2026 · 31 min
About this episode
Eli Singer discusses digital overwhelm and its impact on therapy, offering insights on healthier technology relationships.
Most of us know the feeling. You pick up your phone to check one thing and suddenly twenty minutes have disappeared. For many people, this has become a daily pattern, and it is starting to show up more and more in therapy sessions. In this episode, I sit down with Eli Singer to talk about digital overwhelm and the complicated relationship many of us have with our phones and devices. Eli has spent years working in the digital world, including building one of the early social media agencies in North America. After stepping away from that work, he began focusing on helping people develop healthier relationships with technology. We talk about why so many people feel stuck when it comes to changing their phone habits, and why the issue often has less to do with willpower and more to do with confidence. Eli also shares his Offline Now Matrix, a simple framework that helps people understand where they are in their relationship with technology and what kind of support they might need to make a change. We also get into how these issues show up in therapy, the difference between habit and deeper emotional drivers behind phone use, and why digital overwhelm is becoming an important area for…
People in this episode
Host: Gordon Brewer
Guest: Eli Singer
Topics covered
- digital overwhelm
- technology
- therapy
- screen time
- mental health
Keywords
- digital overwhelm
- technology habits
- therapy
- screen time
- mental health
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