Leave The Echo Chamber
Meaningful recovery requires support, care, and stepping outside of the conditions that contributed to the harm.
As a community-based, federally registered non-profit organization, the The Digital Recovery & Mental Health Centre (DRC) provides free, structured support for individuals and families affected by digital harms, including social media addiction, identity disturbance, and mental health challenges associated with prolonged online engagement.
DRC is the first Canadian initiative dedicated to supporting recovery from harmful digital environments.
Gaps In Care
Through peer-led, recovery-oriented support, DRC assists individuals and families navigating the psychological impacts of digital environments and social media use, a current gap in mental health and clinical services in Canada.
DRC provides non-judgmental, evidence-informed support grounded in lived experience, recovery principles, and emerging clinical research surrounding digital harms and mental health concerns caused by social media and smartphones.
The conversations in therapeutic settings must reflect the digital environment and its harms. DRC does that.
Who DRC Supports
- Compulsive or problematic screen use
- Trapped in comparison culture
- Emotionally impacted by social media
- Regret around social media use
- Difficulty leaving platforms
- Distress following social media use AND/OR disengagement/deletion
- Symptoms associated with personality disorder features, psychosis, impaired self-concept, low self-esteem and eating disorders
- Caregiver burden among parents and family members supporting individuals harmed by social media use, including bereavement
What DRC Does
Support is provided by recovery oriented frameworks that integrates lived experience, clinical best practices, and community based mental health principles.
- 8 week structured programming, with the opportunity for additional support
- Individual one-to-one support appointments
- Facilitated groups
- Psychoeducation and support services for parents and families
- Reflection and rebuilding identity outside of digital environments
Founder
The Digital Recovery & Mental Health Centre was founded by Kayleigh Robertson, Certified Clinical Peer Support Specialist. She carries professional expertise and lived experience in digital-related mental-health harm and recovery-oriented care.
Her work is informed by both formal clinical training and experiences with hospitalization and psychosis related to the psychological impacts of social media and smartphone use.
She deleted her social media in 2022 after prolonged distress caused by use.
Kayleigh Robertson is a clinical specialist, professional speaker, digital-harms advocate, and published writer. She focuses on recovery, education, and system-level responses to emerging digital mental-health challenges.