Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia is proven to be the first-line treatment for adults with chronic insomnia. It improves sleep in 75-80% of insomnia patients and reduces or eliminates sleeping pill use in 90% of patients. CBT-I also has no side effects and maintains improvements in sleep long-term, and new research shows that CBT-I doubles the improvement rates of depression compared to antidepressant medication alone in depressed patients with insomnia. It also improves sleep and reduces pain, menopausal hot flashes, fibromyalgia, substance abuse, and PTSD in insomnia patients with these co-morbid health problems.
The Conquering Insomnia program replicates the CBT-I program developed and tested at Harvard Medical School and the University of Massachusetts Medical Center by Dr. Gregg D. Jacobs in his work with over ten thousand insomnia patients over the past 30 years. In a study conducted at Harvard Medical School by Dr. Jacobs that was funded by the National Institutes of Health and published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, his CBT-I program was more effective than Ambien. In order to help our community of patients who struggle with insomnia our providers have been trained in this protocol so that we may bring this offering to our community.
The Conquering Insomnia program is a 5-session, 5-week PDF-based CBT-I program. All sessions will be held virtually and typically last 60-90 minutes per session. Each participant will receive an individual dashboard with each assignment from week to week.
The 5 sessions in the Conquering Insomnia program are organized over a 5-week period as follows:
Session 1
Basic facts about sleep; Conducting your own insomnia assessment
Session 2
Sleep scheduling and stimulus control techniques
Session 3
Cognitive restructuring techniques; Sleep medication tapering techniques
Session 4
Daytime relaxation techniques; Developing stress-reducing, sleep-enhancing
attitudes and beliefs
Session 5
Bedtime relaxation techniques; Lifestyle habits that improve sleep
The Conquering Insomnia program is designed to be a sequential five-week program (e.g., you begin with session 1, and then proceed to session 2, and so on through session 5 over a five week period).
The Conquering Insomnia program is also individualized because you can complete a sleep diary each week of the program, e-mail it to the office, and receive weekly individualized guidelines and feedback on CBT-I techniques based on your sleep diary.
This offering is only for established patients only. If you have insurance and have a medical diagnosis such as insomnia or a condition that can be impacted by insomnia then your insurance may be billed for this group visit.
To participate in this group cohort please register here. This is the first group date of a 5 date series. The other class dates for this cohort are 3/3/22, 3/8/22, 3/21/22, 4/5/22