Extensive presentations on the assessment, prevention, and treatment of problematic internet and screen use across children, adolescents, and adults. Topics have included social media addiction, gaming disorder, pornography use, AI companion relationships, online gambling, cyberbullying, developmental consequences of technology, and the psychological impact of digital environments on identity formation, attachment, and emotional regulation. Trainings have ranged from clinical treatment models for behavioral addictions to prevention-focused education for schools, healthcare systems, and community organizations.
Recent presentations have explored the emerging role of artificial intelligence in mental health and addiction medicine, including AI companions, parasocial attachment, ethical concerns, psychosis risk, emotional dependency, and the changing landscape of behavioral healthcare in technologically immersive environments.
Trainings on the identification and treatment of sex addiction, pornography addiction, relationship compulsivity, traumatic bonding, covert incest, and sexual offending behaviors. Presentations have emphasized differential diagnosis, attachment dynamics, dating app culture, and contemporary treatment approaches for compulsive sexual behavior and intimacy disorders.
Workshops focused on complex trauma, intergenerational trauma, traumatic bonding, dissociation, and attachment-based treatment approaches. Trainings have incorporated experiential therapies, parts work, polyvagal-informed interventions, resilience-building, and strategies for enhancing integrative capacity in both individual and group treatment settings.
Educational trainings addressing dysfunctional family systems, family roles and rules, enmeshment, boundaries, shame dynamics, abandonment wounds, and covert incest. Presentations have focused on how family system patterns contribute to addiction, relational dysfunction, and emotional dysregulation across the lifespan.
Presentations examining the neuroscience and psychology of gambling addiction, online sports betting, and technology-driven addictive behaviors in adolescents and young adults, with a focus on assessment, prevention, and intervention strategies.
Trainings focused on interactional group psychotherapy, experiential group work, and practical applications of group treatment for addictions and complex trauma populations. Additional presentations have addressed telehealth best practices, clinical engagement strategies, and integrative approaches to behavioral healthcare.
American Society of Addiction Medicine Annual Conference — San Diego, CA
National Association of Social Workers Virtual Clinical Social Work Institute
CAPTASA Conference
Tennessee Association for Addiction Professionals Journey Together Conference
Kentucky Judicial Commission on Mental Health Symposium
Kentucky Prevention Network
PreventionFIRST! Coalition Academy & OCAM Conference
Mississippi Opioid Summit
North Carolina Caring Dental Professionals Jake Thorpe Conference
Norton Healthcare Pediatric Behavioral Health Symposium
Baptist Health Behavioral Health Summit
Cumberland Heights
Hennepin Healthcare ECHO Program
The Brook Hospital KMI
Central Clinic Behavioral Health
Starship Care
Youthworks
Therapeutic Family Care Program
Palo Alto University Department of Continuing and Professional Studies
University of Louisville Kent School of Social Work
Texas A&M University
Tipton County Schools
Kelly Elementary School
Operation Parent
Weakley County Prevention Coalition
Prospect Wellness Center
NKY Institute for Strategic Prevention
Full Presentation Portfolio
2026
Eiden, M. (2026, April). Treating Internet Addiction: Navigating clinical care at the intersection of AI, pornography, social media, and gaming [1.5-hour CE training]. Virtual Clinical Social Work Institute: National Association of Social Workers-North Carolina Chapter.
Eiden, M., Brunner, E., Kauffman, D., & Jarvis, M. (2026, April). Envisioning a Continuum of Care for Behavioral Addictions [75 minute CE training]. Presentation at the American Society of Addiction Medicine Annual Conference. San Diego, CA.
Eiden, M., Brunner, E., Kauffman, D., & Polley, S. (2026, April). Artificial intelligence and the future of addiction medicine [75 minute CE training]. Presentation at the American Society of Addiction Medicine Annual Conference. San Diego, CA.
Eiden, M. (2026, March). Treating Internet Addiction: Navigating clinical care at the intersection of AI, pornography, social media, and gaming [3-hour CE training]. Youthworks, Bismarck, ND.
Eiden, M. (2026, February). Screen Addiction. [1-hr radio interview]. Single Payer Radio, Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare & Physicians for a National Health Plan, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2026, January). Treating Dissociation in SUD populations: Assessment, Integrating Parts Work, and Enhancing Integrative Capacity [1-hour CE training]. CAPTASA Conference, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2026, January). Love and Sex Addiction in Recovering Populations: Relationship Compulsivity in Early Recovery, Dating Apps, and Traumatic Bonding [1-hour CE training]. CAPTASA Conference, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2026, January). Treating Internet Addiction: Navigating clinical care at the intersection of AI, pornography, social media, and gaming [4-hour CE training]. Palo Alto University Department of Continuing and Professional Studies. Palo Alto, CA.
Eiden, M. (2026, January). Best Practices in Telehealth [2-hour CE training]. Eiden Integrative Counseling. Portland, OR.
Eiden, M. (2026, January). Effective Group Psychotherapy: Focus on addictions and complex trauma [2-hour CE training]. Addiction Resource Council 2025 Webinar Series
Eiden, M. (2026, January). Digital Mirrors: The role of technology in identity formation in young children [2-hour CE training]. Starship Care, KY.
2025
Eiden, M. (2025, December). Treating Enmeshment and Covert Incest [2-hour CE training]. Starship Care, Kentucky.
Eiden, M. (2025, November). Treating Problematic Internet Use: Focus on pornography, social media, gaming, and gambling [1-hour CE training]. NASW Chapters Virtual Conference: Mental Health Compassion + Action, Virtual.
Eiden, M. (2025, November). Treating problematic screen use: Focus on social media [1-hour guest lecture]. Texas A&M University Social Problems Course, College Station, TX.
Eiden, M. (2025, October). Treating Internet Addiction: Navigating clinical care at the intersection of AI, pornography, social media, and gaming [4-hour CE training]. Baptist Healthcare Annual Behavioral Health Summit, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2025, September). Dysfunctional family system recovery: Rules, roles, and boundaries [2-hour CE training]. Starship Care, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2025, September). Dysfunctional family system recovery: Rules, roles, and boundaries [1-hour CE training]. 20th Annual Jake Thorpe Fall Conference, Wrightsville Beach, NC.
Eiden, M. (2025, September). Shame reduction & building resilience [1-hour CE training]. 20th Annual Jake Thorpe Fall Conference, Wrightsville Beach, NC.
Eiden, M. (2025, September). Dysfunctional family system recovery: Rules, roles, and boundaries [2-hour CE training]. Kentucky Association of Addiction Professionals Conference, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2025, August). Understanding Internet Addiction: Tools for the classroom and developmental consequences of tech [2-hour training]. Tipton County Schools & Tipton Prevents, Tipton, TN.
Eiden, M. (2025, August). Screen addiction: How to parent during a tech revolution [1.5-hour community presentation]. Tipton Prevents, Tipton, TN.
Eiden, M. (2025, July). Psychological effects of cyberbullying & social media [30-minute CE training]. Norton Just for Kids Pediatric Symposium, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2025, July). Addictive social media use [1-hour CE training]. ECHO Hennepin Healthcare System, Albuquerque, NM.
Eiden, M. (2025, July). Developmental impact of cyberbullying, social media, pornography, and addictive internet use[1-hour CE training]. Cumberland Family Medical Pediatric Behavioral Symposium, Virtual.
Eiden, M. (2025, June). Understanding mental health through polyvagal and attachment theory: Trauma, tech, and dysregulation [1.5-hour prevention training]. Weakley County Prevention Coalition, Martin, TN.
Eiden, M. (2025, June). Treating problematic screen and Internet use [4-hour CE training]. Cumberland Heights Treatment Center, Nashville, TN.
Eiden, M. (2025, March). Treating Internet addiction: Focus on gaming, pornography, social media, and gambling[1-hour CE training]. Mississippi Opioid Summit, Oxford, MS.
Eiden, M. (2025, March). Shame reduction & building resilience [2-hour CE training]. Starship Care, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2025, January). Treating traumatic bonding & intergenerational trauma: Experiential approaches [3-hour CE training]. Starship Care, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2025, January). Treating sex and pornography addiction [3-hour CE training]. Starship Care, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2025, January). Shame reduction & building resilience [1-hour CE training]. CAPTASA Conference, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2025, January). Dysfunctional family system recovery: Rules, roles, and boundaries [1-hour CE training]. CAPTASA Conference, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2025, January). Gambling addiction in young adults: Neuroscience, online sports betting, and treatment approaches [2-hour CE training]. Starship Care, Louisville, KY.
2024
Eiden, M. (2024, October). Treating problematic screen and internet use [4-hour CE webinar]. Eiden Integrative Counseling, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, October). Treating problematic screen and internet use [1-hour CE training]. Kentucky Prevention Network Fall Conference, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, October). Treating problematic screen and internet use [1-hour CE training]. Offices of Paul Dalton Mental Health & Addiction Symposium, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, October). Treating problematic screen and internet use [75-minute prevention training]. Prevention FIRST! Coalition Academy, Cincinnati, OH.
Eiden, M. (2024, October). Problematic screen use in youth: Treatment & prevention [1-hour CE training]. Norton Pediatric Mental Health Symposium, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, September). Treating trauma with experiential therapies: Traumatic bonding & intergenerational trauma [3-hour CE training]. Journey Together Conference (TAAP), Franklin, TN.
Eiden, M. (2024, September). Treating sex addiction in the modern era [1.5-hour CE training]. Journey Together Conference (TAAP), Franklin, TN.
Eiden, M. (2024, September). Treating problematic screen use: Attachment & polyvagal theory [1.5-hour CE training]. Journey Together Conference (TAAP), Franklin, TN.
Eiden, M. (2024, September). Traumatic bonding & abandonment [1-hour training]. North Carolina Caring Dental Professionals Jake Thorpe Conference, Asheville, NC.
Eiden, M. (2024, September). Gambling addiction [1-hour training]. North Carolina Caring Dental Professionals Jake Thorpe Conference, Asheville, NC.
Eiden, M. (2024, September). Treating youth screen addiction [1-hour CE webinar]. Prevention FIRST!, Cincinnati, OH.
Eiden, M. (2024, July). Screen & internet addiction: Identification and management [1-hour CE training]. Norton Healthcare Just for Kids Pediatric Symposium, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, July). Screen addiction: Impact on development [Community education]. Prospect Wellness Center, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, May). Truths of youth screen addiction [1-hour webinar]. Operation Parent, Oldham County, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, April). Screen & internet addiction: Impact on development [1-hour CE training]. NKY Institute for Strategic Prevention, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, March). Treating problematic screen and internet use [3-hour CE training]. Therapeutic Family Care Program, Ontario, Canada.
Eiden, M. (2024, January). Treating traumatic bonding & comorbid substance use disorder [1-hour CE training]. CAPTASA Conference, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, January). Treating intergenerational trauma in substance use disorder patients [1-hour CE training]. CAPTASA Conference, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, January). Treating problematic screen and internet use [4-hour CE webinar]. Eiden Integrative Counseling.
2023
Eiden, M. (2023, October). Scary truths of youth screen addiction [1.5-hour CE training]. Prevention FIRST! OCAM Conference, Cincinnati, OH.
Eiden, M. (2023, October). Updates in pediatrics: Screen addiction [1-hour CE training]. Norton Behavioral Health Pediatric Symposium, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2023, September). Screen use & attachment [1.5-hour CE training]. Tennessee Dental Wellness Foundation, Murfreesboro, TN.
Eiden, M. (2023, September). Screen and internet addiction [2-hour training]. NCCDP Fall Conference, Wrightsville Beach, NC.
Eiden, M. (2023, September). Screen use & mental health [1-hour CE podcast]. Norton Behavioral Health, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2023, September). Problematic screen & internet use in adolescents [1.5-hour CE training]. The Brook Hospital, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2023, May). Screen addiction & legal implications of sexting [1-hour CE training]. Kentucky Judicial Commission on Mental Health Symposium, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2023, April). Parent education program [Educational program]. Kelly Elementary School, Boone County, KY.
Eiden, M. (2023, March). Parent education program [Educational program]. Kelly Elementary School, Boone County, KY.
2022
Eiden, M. (2022, September). Pornography, gaming, & screen addictions [2.5-hour CE training]. Central Clinic Behavioral Health, Cincinnati, OH.
Eiden, M. (2022, July). Pornography, gaming, & screen addictions [3-hour CE training]. The Brook Hospital KMI, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2022, January). Pornography, gaming, & screen addictions [1-hour CE training]. CAPTASA Conference, Lexington, KY.
2020
Eiden, M. (2020, April). Sex addiction & differential diagnosis [3-hour CE training]. University of Louisville Kent School Alumni Council, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2020, March). Traumatic bonding [8-week intensive]. Private Program.
Eiden, M. (2020, January). Sex addiction and sexual offending [2-hour CE training]. CAPTASA Conference, Lexington, KY.
2019
Eiden, M. (2019, October). Introduction to sex addiction & covert incest [3-hour CE training]. University of Louisville Kent School Alumni Council, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2019, March). Introduction to sex addiction & covert incest [3-hour CE training]. University of Louisville Kent School Alumni Council, Louisville, KY.