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Services

We specialise in the treatment of sleep problems including:

  • Insomnia: difficulties falling asleep, staying asleep and/or waking early in the morning with poor sleep quality. Daytime symptoms can include fatigue, irritability, impaired memory and concentration and worry about sleep.

  • Body clock disruptions or circadian rhythm disorders: when your body's internal clock is out of sync with your environment. For example, your body clock may be too delayed or advanced. These disorders can cause insomnia, fatigue and daytime sleepiness. 

  • Shift-work disorder: Sleep problems which occur due to working non-traditional work hours (e.g. outside of 9am-5pm) such as insomnia and excessive sleepiness.

  • Nightmares

  • Hypnotic tapering i.e. reducing medication

  • Adjusting to using CPAP

  • Other psychological difficulties impacting sleep e.g. depression, anxiety, stress

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Our team uses evidence-based treatments which are personalised to your sleep problems. These therapies provide practical solutions and skills to get you back to sleeping and feeling better as quickly as possible.

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT is a multicomponent first-line treatment for insomnia involving cognitive, behavioural and educational interventions.
  • Cognitive interventions: Examining inaccurate and unhelpful thoughts about sleep. These dysfunctional thoughts can lead to behaviours which worsen sleep. 
  • Behavioural interventions: This can include sleep restriction (matching the time spent sleeping to the time you spend in bed), stimulus control (strengthening connection between bed and sleep) and stress reduction techniques. 
  • Psychoeducational interventions: Learning about sleep can help with identifying lifestyle factors that impact sleep and dispelling common myths 

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT is an evidence-based intervention which helps you to learn ways to change your relationship with your sleep problems. It helps you reduce your attempts to control sleep and associated thoughts and feelings using acceptance and mindfulness approaches.  

Body clock re-alignment
This can include bright light therapy, melatonin, and chronotherapy (carefully adjusting the time you sleep and wake)

 

Treatment

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