ITAA in Melbourne, Australia

Welcome to Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous! We’re glad you’ve found us, and we hope our community can be as helpful to you as it has been for us. ITAA is a Twelve-Step fellowship of individuals who support each other in recovering from internet and technology addiction. This includes addiction to social media, smartphones, streaming video or audio content, games, news, pornography, dating apps, online research, online shopping, or any other digital activity that becomes compulsive and problematic. 

Meetings in Carnegie

When: Thursdays, 7:00 pm
Where: meeting will likely be in the Carnegie Library, 7 Shepparson Ave, Carnegie VIC 3163, Australia, but it is subject to change, please get in touch with the host at misgaber96@gmail.com. The meeting will take place in the Carnegie Library’s meeting room, which is in the back left corner of the library. Just ask reception where the meeting room is if you get lost.

A hybrid, general discussion, mixed face-to-face and Zoom meeting structured using the generic ITAA format.

Contact: Meir at misgaber96@gmail.com

Important Update: Thursday Online ITAA Australia Hybrid Meeting

The Thursday ITAA Australia Hybrid Meeting has recently seen reduced attendance, and the in-person component has not been held for several weeks. As a result, the online portion of the meeting has also been affected.

This meeting time serves members across Australia, Asia, and Europe, and we would like to avoid losing it if possible.

An online Group Conscience (GC) will be held on Thursday, January 8 to:

  • Decide whether this meeting will continue as online-only or return to a hybrid format
  • Seek service volunteers to help support the meeting moving forward

We are happy to share that a regular online host is confirmed from January 8 onward.

All members are encouraged to attend the online meeting and participate in the GC:
https://teamup.com/event/show/id/EboKrtt8yHRaPN6kQtft3Ypy1zYJEL/add-to-calendar

Your participation and voice are important in shaping the future of this meeting.

Additional meetings

If you’re new, we encourage you to try attending six meetings in a short period of time to see if our program may be helpful to you. In addition to our local in-person meeting, you can also review our other in-person meetings and a complete schedule of online meetings. All meetings are completely free and anonymous.

How do meetings work?

If you will be joining a meeting for the first time, there’s no need to be nervous. Most of our meetings are very simple; each meeting has a chairperson who leads the meeting, and most meetings are one hour long. The chair and other volunteers read some opening statements, before we open the meeting for members to share. There is no requirement to share, and it’s okay to just listen. If you feel comfortable, you can introduce yourself and share what brought you to ITAA. Unless requested by the member sharing, we do not offer suggestions or comments in response to other’s shares; we simply listen non-judgmentally. At the end of the hour, the meeting will end with some closing statements, after which members usually talk casually, ask questions, and exchange contact details.

Internet and Technology Addiction resources

If you’re wondering whether you may have an internet and technology addiction, you can review our questionnaires for internet addiction, social media addiction, streaming addiction, phone addiction, or video game addiction. You can also learn more about ITAA by reading our guide for newcomers, reviewing our tools of recovery, or listening to members’ recovery stories.

ITAA is not affiliated with any political agenda, religion, or outside interests. We’re fully self-supporting and free to all who need it. Our single purpose is to abstain from compulsive internet and technology use and to help others find freedom from this addiction.

Again, welcome! We hope this community is able to provide the support you need in your recovery from internet and technology addiction. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you have any questions.


Page last updated on December 19, 2025