Start a Screen Addiction Recovery Program Business

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   Draw the coaching-versus-therapy line in ink

   A cohort program is coaching and peer support, not treatment. Unless you hold a clinical license, do not diagnose, do not market treatment for addiction as a disorder, and screen applicants so that people with co-occurring depression, gaming disorder severity, or crisis indicators are referred to licensed clinicians. Your referral network is not a legal fig leaf; it is half the value you offer.

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   Build the vetted therapist bench

   Find licensed therapists with genuine experience in behavioral and technology-related compulsions, verify licenses and ask about their actual approach, and maintain the list like a product: current, credential-checked, and matched by state (therapy licensure is state-bound). Families searching for exactly this list will find your program through it.

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   Design the cohort arc

   Eight weeks works: awareness and tracking, environment redesign, replacement habits, the social and emotional jobs the phone was doing, relapse planning, and a defined graduation into an alumni group. Cap cohorts small enough that everyone is known by name, and train facilitators on group dynamics, not just content.

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   Make measurement honest

   Screen-time numbers, sleep, and self-reported wellbeing at entry, exit, and ninety days. Publish aggregate results including the people it did not help. In a category full of detox theater, honest numbers are the differentiator that earns clinician referrals.

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   Price the program, seed the pipeline

   A cohort fee in the range of other serious group programs, alumni membership as light recurring revenue, and scholarships you can afford. Pipeline comes from content that treats the problem with dignity, partnerships with therapists who need a structured adjunct for motivated clients, and word of mouth from graduates.

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   Expand to the concerned-parent market carefully

   Parents of teens are the loudest demand, and the highest duty of care: teen programs need consent structures, safeguarding policies, and clinical oversight beyond the adult version. Grow there only when you can do it properly, with a licensed advisor attached to the program.

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