I can treat sleep disorders, conditions that affect the quality, timing, and amount of sleep, leading to difficulties in functioning during waking hours. These disorders can involve disturbances in the sleep-wake cycle, such as insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, or parasomnias like sleepwalking or night terrors.
Good sleep is vital to our functioning. Without it, our mental and physical performance suffers. Oftentimes, once our sleep gets disrupted, it gets increasingly harder over time to fix it. I have many resources and strategies to help you improve your sleep through education, relaxation skills, and behavior modifications.
Having trouble sleeping? Feel tired in the morning even after what you thought was enough sleep? Issues with sleep are very common and tied to increased anxiety, depression, and difficulty managing stress and change in life. I help people improve their sleep, with effective strategies for falling and staying asleep.
In addition to cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), I also provide imagery rehearsal therapy (aka nightmare rescripting) to address problems with recurrent, distressing dreams. Because sleep issues often co-occur with other mental health problems, such as mood and anxiety concerns, I am able to integrate CBT-I with therapies targeting these concerns. When working on improving sleep with clients, I carefully track their progress week-to-week, and typically observe noticeable improvements within a relatively short timeframe.