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Everyone experiences sleep difficulties from time to time, but insomnia is a chronic sleep disorder. Left untreated, insomnia can affect your emotional resilience, physical health, and day-to-day functioning. Research shows that insomnia predicts the development of depression, anxiety, PTSD after trauma, and substance use disorders. It also increases the risk of suicide and relapse in both depression and substance recovery.
​Common Symptoms
Symptoms of insomnia may include difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking too early despite having enough opportunity to sleep. When this happens regularly, it can make daily life become more challenging, affecting things like focus, energy and mood. These symptoms typically occur at least three nights per week and last more than three months.
​​​​Treatment Approach​
I offer Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), the gold standard for treating insomnia. It’s a structured, short-term therapy that can typically be completed in just four sessions (or over about two months), following an initial evaluation. CBT-I begins with keeping a sleep diary to create a clear picture of your current sleep patterns. From there, we explore how sleep works, including the two biological systems that influence it and the three factors that often contribute to insomnia. Treatment includes strategies to help you reconnect your bed with sleep, improve the quality of your sleep, and gently shift any unhelpful thoughts that may be keeping you awake.
​​If you have any questions or want to learn more about my treatment approach, contact me for a free 30-minute consultation.​​