Dr. Cooper specializes in Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), a highly effective treatment that guides you through multiple steps to improve difficulties related to sleep in approximately 4 to 8 sessions. Chronic insomnia can significantly impact your quality of life and is associated with trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, and/or waking up too early. Many people suffer with sleep difficulties because they aren’t aware that such an effective short-term non-medication treatment exists and there are limited available providers trained in CBT-I. CBT-I is the most effective psychotherapy for insomnia, with results similar to sleep medication without the side effects and with lower rates of relapse. Research has demonstrated significant improvements in many people who participate in CBT-I, with newer research highlighting positive impacts it can have on comorbid anxiety and depressive symptoms.

CBT-I incorporates education and monitoring, sleep consolidation, stimulus control, cognitive restructuring, sleep hygiene, and relaxation techniques. This largely consists of implementing and maintaining an appropriate and stable sleep schedule, creating a consistent bedtime routine, engaging in behaviors throughout the day that help promote sleep, incorporating relaxation strategies to manage stress, anxiety, and worry, and focusing on any beliefs about sleep that may be problematic or unhelpful. When completed according to guidelines, many patients notice significant ongoing improvements in sleep that continues long past the end of therapy.