Sleep Therapy in Los Angeles
I’m an Ivy League educated therapist with neuroscience training. I use CBT-I for sleep therapy because it works better than pills.
Do you lay awake for hours, dreading the next day?
Are you exhausted from trying everything and still not sleeping?
Maybe you have struggled with sleep for years and mindfulness did not work. Or one stressful event threw everything off and now your nights feel tense and unpredictable.
If your work is suffering, relationships feel strained, and you can’t focus, now is the time to get help.
Clients Come to Me With
Insomnia
Racing thoughts
Clock watching
Bedtime dread
Medication reliance
Brain fog at work
Lack of patience
80% of patients report better sleep within 4-8 sessions of CBT-I
What Sleep Therapy with Me Is Like
CBT-I is a structured program. It’s the gold standard treatment for insomnia and recommended as the first-line treatment by the American College of Physicians because it works better long term than sleeping pills.
We begin with a detailed intake to understand your specific type of insomnia. You track your sleep, learn how sleep actually works, and begin making targeted, evidence-based changes to your routine.
We also work directly with the anxiety that builds around bedtime, including watching the clock, dreading tomorrow, or fearing another bad night. If you need support tapering off sleep medication, we create a plan together.
Approaches I Use
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia CBT-I
Resets your sleep drive, strengthens natural sleep rhythms, and reduces nighttime anxiety so you can fall asleep and stay asleep without relying on medication.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT
Identifies and shifts negative sleep thoughts like “If I don’t sleep, tomorrow will be a disaster” and replaces them with realistic, calming perspectives.
Relaxation Training
Teaches your body how to downshift at night so you are not carrying daytime stress into bed.
Psychoeducation on Sleep Science
Helps you understand what is happening in your brain and nervous system so sleep feels predictable instead of scary.
CBT-I Rough Schedule
Understand sleep patterns and begin core tools.
Notice meaningful improvement.
Sleep feels steadier and energy returns.
Sleep Again
When sleep improves, everything gets easier.
After Sleep Therapy with Me, Clients Report
Falling asleep faster
Staying asleep longer
Less anxiety at night
Clearer thinking
More energy
Better mood
Feeling like themselves
What CBT-I actually involves
CBT-I is not sleep hygiene tips. It is a structured protocol, usually six to eight sessions, that changes the underlying system producing your sleep:
- Sleep assessment and tracking — we identify which type of insomnia you have. Trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, and waking too early are different problems with different solutions.
- Sleep restriction and stimulus control — the two components with the strongest evidence base. They rebuild your sleep drive and re-associate your bed with sleeping.
- Cognitive work — targeting the 2 a.m. thoughts (“if I don’t sleep, tomorrow is ruined”) that keep the nervous system switched on.
- Relaxation training — practical downshifting so the day does not follow you into bed.
- Medication tapering support — if you want off sleep aids, we build that plan alongside your prescriber.
Who CBT-I helps
People who have had insomnia for years and tried everything. People whose sleep broke after one stressful stretch and never reset. People relying on melatonin, edibles, or prescription sleep aids who want a way out. New parents, shift workers, and anyone whose schedule broke their sleep and could not repair it afterwards.
Why not just take something?
Sleep medication works while you take it. CBT-I works after you stop. The American College of Physicians recommends CBT-I as the first-line treatment for chronic insomnia in adults, ahead of medication, because the gains hold once treatment ends.
Where I work
In person in Larchmont Village, Los Angeles, and via secure telehealth anywhere in California — including Hancock Park, Beverly Grove, Silver Lake, Sherman Oaks, and Santa Monica.