Sleep Therapy & CBT-I
Specialized therapy for insomnia, sleep anxiety, circadian rhythm concerns, and disrupted sleep patterns using CBT-I and behavioral sleep medicine strategies.
Sleep Concerns I Work With
Insomnia
Difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, waking too early, or feeling preoccupied with sleep.
Sleep anxiety
Worry, monitoring, frustration, or pressure around sleep that makes rest feel harder.
Circadian rhythm concerns
Sleep schedules that feel delayed, irregular, inconsistent, or misaligned with work, school, training, or daily life.
Sleep and performance
Sleep patterns that affect recovery, focus, mood, training, or performance demands.
Sleep during stress or transition
Disrupted sleep during periods of change, injury, caregiving, workload, travel, or increased pressure.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia, or CBT-I, is a structured, evidence-based treatment for insomnia. It focuses on the patterns that maintain sleep difficulties over time, including behaviors, thoughts, schedules, and the relationship between effort and sleep.
CBT-I is often a focused course of treatment, commonly around 4–12 sessions, though care is tailored to each person’s needs and circumstances. It can be used on its own or alongside medical care, including conversations with a prescribing provider about sleep medication when relevant.
My Approach to Sleep Therapy
Sleep therapy is not just sleep hygiene. Many people seeking CBT-I have already tried going to bed earlier, spending more time in bed, avoiding screens, using relaxation strategies, or trying to force sleep to happen.
In therapy, we look at the patterns that may be keeping sleep difficulties in place and develop strategies that are structured, realistic, and responsive to your life. Treatment may include CBT-I, behavioral sleep medicine strategies, CBT, ACT-informed approaches, and attention to stress, recovery, schedule, and daily demands.
The goal is not to make sleep another performance task. The goal is to better understand what is influencing your sleep and build strategies that support rest, recovery, and daily functioning.
Related Areas of Support
Sleep and athletic performance
Travel, jet lag, and schedule disruption
Sleep and co-occurring health or mental health concerns
Behavioral strategies for sustainable sleep habits
Acceptance-based approaches for sleep-related worry and frustration
Recovery during demanding seasons of life, work, or training
Ready to Take the Next Step?
I provide virtual sleep therapy and CBT-I for clients located in Minnesota, New York, Iowa, and participating PSYPACT states.