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Video games can be fun, but sometimes their use becomes concerning. An addiction to video games can leave you feeling isolated and disconnected from the world. In severe cases, it can lead you to sever relationships and even neglect your own physical health.

So, if you have a video game addiction, you should definitely seek help from a licensed therapist or counselor. Wherever you are located in California from Alameda to Yucaipa or even Montclair, or anywhere else nearby, Mental Health Match can help you easily find an experienced therapist or counselor who best meets your needs.

How Do You Know if You Have a Video Game Addiction?

When does a love for video games cross the line and become an addiction? It can be difficult to tell, but there are some signs to look out for.

Here are five signs you are addicted to video games:

  • You feel upset when you can’t play video games.
  • Your gaming habits cause rifts or separation between yourself and those you love.
  • You pick up the controller to escape or numb negative feelings and stress.
  • Things that you used to enjoy don’t give you as much pleasure.
  • You always think about gaming.

Can therapy help you? If you’d like to read more, check out licensed therapist Keiko Wolfe’s article about when you know it is the right time to begin therapy.

Get Video Game Addiction Therapy Today!

A video game addiction therapist can teach you tactics to control your gaming habits, repair relationships, and heal from any mental issues you may have. Mental Health Match can help by quickly matching you with an addiction therapist. Start by browsing experts below or by using our free therapist matching tool.

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Eric van der Voort
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Find ways for you to better manage stress and painful feelings, examine and challenge unhelpful thinking, explore new ways of experiencing pleasure, communicate more effectively, and enjoy better sex.


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Find ways for you to better manage stress and painful feelings, examine and challenge unhelpful thinking, explore new ways of experiencing pleasure, communicate more effectively, and enjoy better sex.

Something to know about my approach is:

I work with people in the kink, LGBTQIA+, and non-monogamous communities to address performance anxieties, desire discrepancies, use of sex/porn or substances, confusion about sexuality, relationship conflict, and communication issues.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Addictions
  • Alcohol
  • Anxiety
  • Communication Skills
  • Compulsive Sexuality/Hypersexuality
  • Couples
  • Couples Sex Therapy
  • COVID-Related Stress and Anxiety
  • Engagement
  • Front Line Workers
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Grief
  • Guilt
  • Healthcare Professionals
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • High-Functioning Depression
  • Kink
  • Marriage
  • Pornography
  • Sex Addiction
  • Sex Anxiety
  • Sex Therapy
  • Sexual Health
  • Sexual Issues
  • Shame
  • Social Anxiety
  • Stress
  • Substance Use
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Dr. Michael Grey
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Explore and address past hurts, and traumas and how we can improve the relationships most important to you. We will also work together to develop insight into how these impact your intersecting identities, creating more functional pattens in life.


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Together, we will:

Explore and address past hurts, and traumas and how we can improve the relationships most important to you. We will also work together to develop insight into how these impact your intersecting identities, creating more functional pattens in life.

Something to know about my approach is:

I am psychoanalytic in my approach bringing your unconscious to your conscious mind. Incorporating Brainspotting, and Biofeedback into sessions help combine both the mind and body allowing you to develop skills to help you regulate your body.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • BDSM
  • Coming Out
  • Coming Out of a Cult
  • Consensual Non-Monogamy
  • Ethical Non-Monogamy
  • Gender Affirmative Surgery Letters
  • Intergenerational Trauma
  • Kink
  • LGBTQ+
  • Polyamory
  • Pornography
  • Religious Trauma
  • Sex Therapy
  • Sexual Health
  • Sexuality
  • Sex Workers
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Teva Johnstone
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Create a plan to change patterns that are holding you back from enjoying your life and reaching your goals. We will explore essential skills in reducing friction in parenting and general adulting with ADHD-type symptoms, depression and low energy.


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Create a plan to change patterns that are holding you back from enjoying your life and reaching your goals. We will explore essential skills in reducing friction in parenting and general adulting with ADHD-type symptoms, depression and low energy.

Something to know about my approach is:

I work with burned out parents and professionals who feel like they are crumbling from the pressure. I teach emotional regulation, mindfulness, self-compassion, and skill building to manage ADHD, depression, stress, and parenting responsibilities.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adult ADHD
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Executive Functioning
  • Motherhood
  • Parental Burnout
  • Parenting Skills
  • Postpartum Depression
  • Social Media Use
  • Technology Addiction
  • Therapist for Other Therapists
  • Work Stress
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Elizabeth Hill
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Therapy will focus on setting boundaries, assertiveness, conflict resolution and recognizing unhealthy relationship patterns. We will also examine intergenerational trauma and messages internalized about skin color/shade, hair texture and body type.


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Therapy will focus on setting boundaries, assertiveness, conflict resolution and recognizing unhealthy relationship patterns. We will also examine intergenerational trauma and messages internalized about skin color/shade, hair texture and body type.

Something to know about my approach is:

Individual therapy techniques include DBT, CBT and healthy relationship skill building. Skill building includes assertiveness training, conflict-resolution, overcoming chronic people pleasing and setting healthy boundaries with others.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Attachment Disorders
  • Couples
  • Family Conflict
  • Family of Origin
  • LGBTQ+
  • Marriage
  • Pornography
  • Premarital Counseling
  • Racial Justice
  • Racial Trauma
  • Relationship Conflict
  • Relationship Skills
  • Sex Therapy
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Joshua De La Cruz
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Learn how to connect with the people you love most in your life! By living with compassion, authenticity, and curiosity, we can discover how to engage the healthy parts of yourself to build rich relationships.


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Together, we will:

Learn how to connect with the people you love most in your life! By living with compassion, authenticity, and curiosity, we can discover how to engage the healthy parts of yourself to build rich relationships.

Something to know about my approach is:

I enjoy helping people reach inward to understand and comfortably express themselves. Authenticity helps us be more present with those around us. We'll embrace what it means to be human and find empowerment in our own skin, imperfections and all.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adult ADHD
  • Anger Management
  • Confidence
  • Couples
  • Grief
  • High Anxiety
  • Life Transitions
  • Pornography
  • Relationships
  • Self-Esteem
  • Shame
  • Stress
  • Teenagers
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