Donn Posner and Colleen Carney – Insomnia & Sleep Problems Training
Beyond Sleep Hygiene: CBT Solutions to Improve Outcomes and Resolve Insomnia Symptoms in Clients with Anxiety, PTSD, Depression, and More
Stuck progress. Incomplete treatment gains. Symptom recurrence.
These aren’t the outcomes you want for your clients.
Anxiety, PTSD, and depression share a common problem – sleep disturbance. And you’re likely underestimating its significance.
While old wisdom suggested that insomnia was just a symptom of other disorders that would resolve along with the primary mental health condition…
…new evidence reveals that not only is insomnia a risk factor for numerous behavioral health issues and medical problems – if left unaddressed, insomnia complicates your treatment efforts and diminishes your clients’ recovery.
Insomnia must be targeted directly – and often, simply helping your clients sleep better actually decreases their other symptoms.
In this essential training, Dr. Donn Posner, distinguished Diplomate in Behavioral Sleep Medicine and founding member of the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, will teach you Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), a powerful evidence-based, gold-standard treatment to help your clients put chronic insomnia behind them. You’ll get the skills you need to:
- Increase sleep efficiency so your clients consistently get the rest they need
- Transform your clients’ bed into a cue for sleep so they don’t toss and turn all night
- Deconstruct unhelpful beliefs to decrease anxiety about sleep
- Troubleshoot sleep-related problems at any stage of therapy
Insomnia Treatment: Evidence-Based Strategies to Enrich Sleep & Boost Clinical Outcomes in Clients with PTSD, Anxiety, Chronic Pain & Depression
We all know the necessity of sleep –yet we often overlook addressing it in therapy. Your clients with PTSD, anxiety, depression and chronic pain are struggling with symptoms of those disorders, and everything is made worse when they aren’t able to sleep.
If your clients aren’t sleeping, do you know what to do about it?
In this recording, I’ll show you successful, proven techniques I’ve developed over the last decade on how to optimize your clients’ sleep – without medication! You don’t need to be a sleep specialist to implement these strategies in your office.
Discover evidence-based strategies to help your clients increase energy during the day, sleep more deeply and re-initiate sleep after it’s been disrupted. In addition, you’ll learn how to easily integrate these strategies into existing treatment for trauma, anxiety, depression and chronic pain.
Watch and discover:
- New tools to assess for sleep quality & sleep disorders other than insomnia
- Strategies to address conditioned wakefulness and restore your clients’ sleep drives
- Sleep logs, worksheets and other tools to use in your clinical practice
- Specific interventions for clients with comorbid PTSD, anxiety, depression or chronic pain
- Add insomnia treatment to your therapeutic toolbox!
What You’ll Learn In Insomnia & Sleep Problems Training
Module 1: CBT Solutions for Insomnia, Anxiety, PTSD, Depression & More – Donn Posner, PhD, DBSM
In Module 1, you’ll learn gold standard CBT-I and other cognitive strategies that treat insomnia even with other chronic and co-occurring disorders.
You’ll learn exactly what you need to know to start using CBT-I with clients now. Gain the skills to…
- Deconstruct unhelpful beliefs to decrease anxiety about sleep
- Troubleshoot sleep-related problems at any stage of therapy
- Strengthen the sleep drive in clients to get them on-board and engaged
- Know the keys to assessment of sleep problems and co-occurring disorders
- Implement counter-arousal strategies that target the most challenging stimuli
- Overcome nighttime wakefulness so clients finally get real rest
Module 2: Targeted Insomnia Treatment to Boost Outcomes with PTSD, Chronic Pain & More – Colleen Carney, PhD
In Module 2, discover new evidence-based strategies that support sleep and the treatment of PTSD, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain. Walk away with a new toolkit for treating all sleep problems!
Jump into learning new evidence-based strategies to help your clients increase energy during the day, sleep more deeply, and re-initiate sleep after it’s been disrupted. You’ll learn how to easily integrate these strategies into existing treatments for trauma, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain.
- New tools to assess for sleep quality & sleep disorders other than insomnia
- Strategies to address conditioned wakefulness and restore your clients’ sleep drives
- Sleep logs, worksheets, and other tools to use in your clinical practice
- Specific interventions for clients with comorbid PTSD, anxiety, depression, or chronic pain
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