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I am trained in CBT-I
(Cognitive Behavioural Therapy-Insomnia)
& MBT-I
(Mindfulness-Based Therapy-Insomnia)
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THE IMPORTANCE OF SLEEP FOR HEALTH, RESILIENCE & PERFORMANCE

Sleep is essential to your overall health, resilience, and ability to function at your best. Given that we spend approximately one-third of our lives sleeping - or trying to - it’s clear that sleep is not a luxury, but a biological necessity.

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Sleep plays a crucial foundational role in supporting every aspect of your health.

  • Physically, it contributes to balance, coordination, reaction time, immune function, and recovery from illness or injury.

  • Cognitively, it affects attention, concentration, decision-making, and memory.

  • Psychologically and emotionally, sleep influences mood regulation, stress responses, empathy, anxiety, and level of confidence. 

 

Sleep is a driving mechanism of both physical and psychological health and often a treatment in itself. Because sleep and health share a bidirectional relationship, improving sleep can reduce the severity of co-occurring conditions such as anxiety, depression, chronic pain, injuries/diseases and weight issues - even without directly targeting those issues. Prioritising sleep is an effective, foundational step toward broader health and wellbeing.

 

You don’t need a diagnosed condition to benefit from better sleep.  Yet sleep is often ignored until it becomes a problem. Taking a proactive approach - rather than waiting to react - is far more effective for long-term health and wellbeing.

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EFFECTIVE SLEEP MANAGEMENT GOES BEYOND JUST A BEDTIME ROUTINE

Healthy sleep starts long before bedtime. It involves managing daily stressors, balancing energy and alertness, and supporting the body’s natural rhythms.

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Whether you're addressing sleep issues, preventing future problems, or aiming to boost wellbeing and performance, effective sleep management is a powerful tool for lasting health and self-care.

CAN YOU RELATE?
​I can fall asleep easily but wake up regularly through the night and find it hard to go back to sleep
 
My mind is racing when I go to bed, but my body is tired, I can’t get to sleep – ‘tired but wired’

 

I worry about how I'm going to cope the next day and the rest of the week, as one night easily leads to more
 
I wake regularly around 3 or 4 am and can’t go back to sleep
 
I wake up feeling stressed and unrefreshed

I wait until I'm tired before going to bed, which means I can't fit in 8 hours

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I go to bed at different times and get up at different times

 

I stay up late because that's the only time I have to myself

 

I am drinking more as it helps me sleep and not think about things

 

It is hard to make it through the next day, and I feel exhausted
 
I have had sleeping issues for more than 3 months and can’t understand why because the issue that started my sleep issues is gone​

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TREATMENT - SUPPORT FOR YOU

FOR EXAMPLE:

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  • Understanding the benefits of quality sleep on your mind & body health

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  • Understand why treatment changes depending on how long you have had sleep issues

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  • Identifying stressors that may be impacting on your sleep process

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  • How your sleep behaviours may be having an unintentional and unhelpful influence on your sleep​​

  • ​How to manage health-related (e.g. pain, injury, disease) sleep issues 

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  • Identify your biological sleep need

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  • Managing a trauma response or nightmares

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  • Developing a sleep toolkit to improve your sleep

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  • Learning how to manage your fatigue: ways to save and spend your energy so you have a reliable reserve (sense of resilience)

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