Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, the CEO of the New York Center for Living, is one of the country’s foremost experts on adolescent and young adult mental health, tech addiction, and the clinical impact of the digital age. The Ivy-League educated psychologist, and best-selling author has over twenty years of both clinical expertise and operational experience creating, developing, and running pioneering and nationally recognized treatment programs. Dr. Kardaras was the Founder and CEO of Omega Recovery in Austin, TX and Maui Recovery in Hawaii, as well as being the Executive Director of The Dunes in East Hampton, one of the country’s premier drug and alcohol rehab centers. He is a Clinical Professor at Stony Brook Medicine’s School of Social Welfare and the author of the best-selling Glow Kids (St. Martin’s Press, 2016), Digital Madness (St. Martin’s Press, 2022), and How Plato and Pythagoras Can Save Your Life (Conari, 2011). Dr. Kardaras has worked with both state legislators and members of Congress to help enact legislation to protect the mental health of children, teens and young adults. Dr. Kardaras has appeared as an expert on ABC’s 20/20, Good Morning America, the CBS Evening News, CNN, FOX & Friends, NPR PBS, the BBC and has written for TIME, Scientific American, and Psychology Today as well as being featured on the 2019 A&E TV series Digital Addiction, the A&E documentary Youth in Crisis, as well as the documentaries Screened Out, and Doomscroll. https://centerforliving.org/
