CBT-I has been proven effective for chronic insomnia characterized by difficulty falling asleep and/or difficulty staying asleep/falling back to sleep.
Ultimately, chronic insomnia is pretty much the same thing from person to person — it’s sleep disruption that’s kept alive by all our understandable attempts to get rid of it.
CBT-I can help us move away from behaviors that we might be implementing in an effort to improve sleep/get rid of wakefulness/compensate for difficult nights that can end up supplying insomnia with the oxygen it needs to survive.
It’s important to note that CBT-I isn’t the only available approach. A newer approach — acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) — can also help since it can move us away from chasing after sleep (something that often makes things more difficult) and toward living the kind of life we want to live, even in the presence of difficulty.
My online course uses a blend of evidence-based approaches, based on the experience I have gained over the past 13+ years.
I hope this helps!
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