Insomnia

Insomnia is characterized by emotional distress that accompanies difficulty falling asleep or maintaining sleep.

Examples of therapy goals for treating insomnia using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I):

• Design a treatment plan to address your individual needs and concerns.
• Identify daily stressors and associated sleep pattern.
• Identify trigger situations and environmental difficulties.
• Learn relaxation techniques.
• Learn stress management tools.
• Step-by-step coping tools and problem-solving strategies developed.
• Address development of sleep hygiene skills.
• Practice using stimulus control, sleep condition training and conditioned arousal to improve sleep quality and quantity.
• Learn to fall asleep calmly and stay asleep.
• Feeling refreshed and energetic during wakeful hours.
• Decrease anxiety-producing worries that are associated with poor sleep.
• Assess for depression and general anxiety issues.
• Relapse prevention strategies.

See our Resources page for new research articles discussing treatment therapies for insomnia.