Audience Intelligence

Therapist directory built for screen addictions

Person (or parent) seeking a therapist who actually treats compulsive screen use is the first audience because the report already names a repeated pain, reachable channels, and a validation test that can be run before software is complete.

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Segments

Who to validate first.

Start where pain, budget ownership, and reachable language overlap.

Person (or parent) seeking a therapist who actually treats compulsive screen use

Generic directories let any therapist tick a 'technology addiction' box; patients burn through intake fees discovering the therapist has no actual protocol for gaming, porn, or social-media compulsion.

Trigger: Gaming disorder entered the ICD-11, legitimizing a diagnosis whose treatment supply remains unstandardized.
Budget: Therapist listing subscriptions plus per-booking fees.

Budget owner who feels the operational cost of the broken workflow.

Supply-side scarcity: verified specialists may be too few for liquidity.

Trigger: AI-assisted product work and managed infrastructure reduce the first-version cost.
Budget: $49-$499/month

Hands-on operator willing to pilot a narrow tool before a full rollout.

Psychology Today's gravity makes patient-side acquisition expensive.

Trigger: Therapist listing subscriptions plus per-booking fees.
Budget: $99-$1,000/year add-on

Person (or parent) seeking a therapist who actually treats compulsive screen use who still run the workflow in spreadsheets, generic docs, email, or chat threads.

Trigger: The wedge is specific enough to test without claiming the whole market.
Budget: Custom

Channels

Where the audience can be found.

Use these lanes for complaint mining, interviews, and concierge pilot offers.

Reddit / forums

Look for complaints, workarounds, and repeated questions.

First move: Post a problem teardown for Behavioral health navigation and ask how people solve it today.

Launch communities

Launch traction shows whether the promise is legible.

First move: Ship a narrow demo and watch which promise gets clicks.

Review and alternative pages

Pricing and alternatives expose buyer objections.

First move: Write an alternatives page that owns one narrow use case.

Community pain posts

Use communities and forums where Person (or parent) seeking a therapist who actually treats compulsive screen use already describe the painful workflow.

First move: Problem teardown, interview ask, and short demo clip

Direct outreach

Direct conversations are the fastest way to verify budget ownership and switching cost.

First move: Concierge pilot offer with a manually prepared sample

Intent keywords

therapist workflowdirectory validationtherapist aidirectory automationcounselingscreen-timeBehavioral health navigation

Messaging angles

Therapist directory built for screen addictions should be tested as a narrow first-win workflow for one buyer: Person (or parent) seeking a therapist who actually treats compulsive screen use.
Replace a narrow workflow that reaches value without configuration-heavy onboarding. with a focused first-win workflow.
Promise proof around problem resonance: 5+ calls or 10+ detailed replies..
De-risk adoption with concierge review or paid template.

Likely objections

Supply-side scarcity: verified specialists may be too few for liquidity.
Psychology Today's gravity makes patient-side acquisition expensive.
Needs real buyer access, not only desk research.
Needs proof of budget or repeated urgency.
Needs a crisp wedge before broad product work starts.
A broad AI assistant can flatten differentiation unless the wedge is painfully specific.

Research handoff

Use this audience profile to recruit interviews, draft comparison pages, and ground ad creative before building beyond the first workflow.