Sleep is an essential to our health. Stress, depression and anxiety all impair the ability to get healthy, restorative sleep. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) is a psychological treatment proven to be very effective either as a stand-alone or in conjunction with medical treatment. CBT-I focuses how our thoughts, feelings, behaviors and daily routines contribute to sleep disorders and then how to change those into healthy patterns. It starts with a personal assessment of your sleep problems and patterns. Then sessions are designed for you that include education, cognitive, and behavioral approaches with tools to use to gain restful sleep. These include sleep hygiene, relaxation, cognitive restructuring, worry management, adjusting your sleep environment. sleep restriction and stimulus control therapy. The most effective treatment approaches use a combination or all of these methods.
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