If you have been struggling with poor sleep for a long time the chances are you have tried everything and have finally found out about CBT for insomnia. Despite being recommended by the NHS, there is very little access to treatment across the UK. Unfortunately that leaves sufferers with only medication as an option or spending time and money on other treatments which do not have a proven track record of changing sleep patterns.

CBT for poor sleep addresses the cognitive and behavioral factors which may contribute to the maintenance of poor sleep. Both the behavioural and the cognitive techniques used within CBT will help to increase the body's natural drive to sleep, enabling people to get to sleep faster and stay asleep.

CBT also helps by investigating and challenging long held and often unhelpful beliefs about sleep. These beliefs can cause people to feel more anxious than necessary about how much sleep they need and in turn, make it harder to sleep well.

Research is ongoing but as of 2016, the American College of Physicians now state that CBT for insomnia is more effective in improving sleep then medication and is therefore recommended as the first line treatment for poor sleep. In the UK, the NHS also recommend CBT-I techniques for improving poor sleep but unfortunately it can be very difficult to access this kind of treatment.

At The Insomnia Clinic we help people to understand and improve their poor sleep which in turn improves daytime functioning, physical and mental health.