Treatment area
Psychologist for sleep problems
Sleep problems rarely persist for the reason that started them. They persist because of everything you do to get some sleep.
Why it keeps going
It often starts with something specific — a period of stress, a change, a loss. But once you have been lying awake for a few weeks, a new mechanism sets in: you go to bed early to catch up, you check the clock, you calculate how little sleep you can still get. Bed stops meaning sleep and starts meaning worry.
The treatment
We work with cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), which is the best-documented non-drug treatment. Among other things, it involves restricting the time you spend in bed for a period — which sounds wrong and works surprisingly well.
Where the sleeplessness is connected to anxiety, trauma or an overactive worry machine, we also work with what lies underneath.
Sleeping pills
We do not prescribe medication. If you are being treated with sleeping pills, therapy can run alongside it — and for many people, the goal is precisely to be able to taper off in consultation with their doctor.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
How many sessions does it take?
CBT-I is typically a short course of 4–8 sessions.
I have had sleep problems for years. Is there any point?
Yes. Chronic insomnia often responds surprisingly well, precisely because it is the maintaining habits that are treated — not the original cause.
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