Can’t Sleep??? Behavioral Sleep Medicine Using CBT-I Could Help.
Inland Insomnia Therapy uses CBT-I instead of pills to help you get the best sleep possible. CBT-I is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia.
CBT-I is a structured, strategic process that was developed into an effective treatment for insomnia that
DOESN’T RELY ON THE AID OF SLEEP MEDICATIONS
It combines a variety of components that work together to greatly improve both the quality and amount of sleep a person gets on any given night. There are six principal components of CBT-I. Inland Insomnia Therapy provides an in-depth focus on each of these components, giving clients the tools they need to improve their sleep and their lives.
By the end of treatment, most clients walk away with genuine expertise on how to treat insomnia. They can apply their learned CBT-I techniques should insomnia flare up in the future.
How One-to-One CBT-I treatment works
Advantages of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia
According to the most reputable and widely respected medical sources such as The American College of Physicians, The American Journal of Psychiatry and the New England Journal of Medicine, CBT-I also has no side effects and maintains improvements in sleep long-term.
For so many people…
INSOMNIA IS A SLEEPLESS NIGHTMARE!!!
If you have insomnia, you may have had hundreds, if not thousands, of nights with constant tossing and turning. On a typical night, you may watch the clock hour after hour and think, “If I fall asleep right now, I can still get 5 hours…4 hours…3 hours.”
Or you may fall asleep easily but wake up in a couple hours, unable to fall back asleep. Maybe you wake up hours too early in the morning and start your day angry and frustrated. Perhaps the worst part of having insomnia is the nightly anxiety leading up to bedtime when you start to worry whether this night will be just one more exhausting struggle to fall and stay asleep.
Insomnia is a common sleep problem for adults. The National Sleep Foundation estimates that roughly 30 percent of the general population complains of sleep disruption. People who are diagnosed with insomnia typically report at least one symptom of insomnia:
at least a few nights per week over the course of several months.
The most up-to-date research on the efficacy of CBTI-I suggests that it can greatly help those that have co-occurring disorders such as depression, chronic pain, menopausal symptoms, fibromyalgia, substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder. Read on…
CBT-I vs. Sleeping Pills
In contrast to CBT-I, sleeping pills do NOT greatly improve sleep. In fact, current research shows that sleeping pills, such as Ambien, may be no more effective than a placebo.
On a person to person basis, sleeping pills only increase total sleep time (they do not get to the root of the insomnia or correct improper sleep patterns) and may only reduce the time it takes to fall asleep by about 10 minutes.
Furthermore, these small to moderate short-term improvements in sleep can be outweighed by unwanted side effects, particularly in older adults. Side effects of sleep medications range from mild to severe and may include:
According to the Wall Street Journal, due to these very serious potential side effects, Ambien, Lunesta, and Sonata will get new FDA black box warnings about potentially fatal side effects (https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-orders-black-box-warnings-for-sleep-aids-11556661036).
As a result of all these potential negative consequences, CBT-I is now recommended as the preferred treatment for insomnia.
Read what the experts are saying about CBT-I:
Any experienced psychotherapist who treats people for depression, anxiety, attention deficit disorder (ADD), relationship problems, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), among other diagnosable mental illnesses, can attest that the relationship between insomnia and mental illness is very often bi-directional, meaning that people with insomnia can also have a mental health problem and people with a mental health problem can often have insomnia.
Working with her clients over the years, Barbara Jaurequi found that insomnia was often preventing them from making progress in therapy.
To be sure, a lack of quality sleep can make people feel down, worried, stressed, etc. Poor sleep can also cause irritability and can even cause trouble in our relationships at work or with loved ones.
See for yourself what all the experts are saying about CBT-I. Just read a couple of the following articles.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/insomnia/in-depth/insomnia-treatment/art-20046677
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3481424/
https://www.helpguide.org/articles/sleep/therapy-for-sleep-disorders.htm
https://www.sleepio.com/cbt-for-insomnia/
Clearly, the data on the efficacy of CBT-I is incredibly compelling. If you’re sick of coping with insomnia, don’t you owe it to yourself to explore whether CBT-I might be right for you?
Trained by the Leading Experts in Behavioral Sleep Medicine
Barbara received her training in CBT-I from some of the leading experts in the field of Behavioral Sleep Medicine including Dr. Donn Posner, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Dr. Michael Perlis, Director of Behavioral Sleep Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. She continues to work with one of the top sleep medicine physicians in the Inland Empire, Dr. Mark Welch, Psychiatrist and Sleep Medicine Specialist at Loma Linda University Health Sleep Medicine, consulting with him on a regular basis and often partnering with him on complex cases. Additionally, Barbara Jaurequi, LMFT is Licensed by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences to practice psychotherapy with people of all ages and backgrounds. She has extensive training and experience in treating a full range of psychopathologies with client populations of all kinds. She is a Nationally Certified Master Addiction Counselor and a member in good standing in a variety of professional organizations and societies.