Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Helps Treat Insomnia Make an Appointment Ask a Question Search Conditions Insomnia expert, Jack Edinger, PhD, discusses how the Sleep Center at National Jewish Health uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to improve insomnia symptoms. Dr. Edinger has helped patients schedule sleep, develop good sleep habits and overcome middle-of-the-night stressors with CBT strategies. Related Videos Sleepless? 5 Expert Tips to Help You Get Sleepy What Is Insomnia and How Does It Affect You? Long Term Effects of Insomnia on Health Tips to Stop Insomnia and Get Back to Sleep Is Your Teen Getting Enough Sleep? Study: After Watching Disturbing Video, CPAP Usage Soars Is My Snoring Dangerous? Video Transcript Typically, the first we will do is we’ll offer them a course of cognitive behavioral insomnia therapy and this a multi-component treatment in which we look at their day to day sleep hygiene practices, the way they go about scheduling sleep, the types of activities where they’re struggling in the middle of the night and staring at the clock and agonizing. Help them get over that. We have strategies to help the racing mind that many of them talk about at night. Altogether, the strategies are very effective, both in the short and long term in resolving insomnia symptoms. Want to use this on your website? Fill out the content usage request form and then copy this code: