Insomnia

 
 

What is Insomnia?

Insomnia is a common sleep difficulty that can involve trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking too early and not feeling refreshed. Treatment focuses on identifying root causes and building habits and thought patterns that support deep, restorative sleep.

 

Who is Insomnia treatment for?

Our approach is for anyone struggling with ongoing sleep problems, whether they’re new or long-term. You might benefit if you:

  • Struggle to fall asleep or lie awake for hours

  • Wake up multiple times or too early

  • Rely on screens, substances, or routines that no longer work

  • Feel fatigued or foggy even after “sleeping”

  • Experience anxiety or racing thoughts at night

  • Sleep better away from home or your usual setting

  • Feel dread, frustration, or stress around sleep

  • Live with other mental health conditions (e.g. anxiety, depression, trauma) or neurodivergence (e.g. ADHD, autism) that affect sleep

Our support is suitable for adults of all ages, and we adapt treatment for sensory needs, trauma backgrounds, and overlapping health concerns.

 

What does Insomnia treatment involve?

  • Thorough sleep assessment and history

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) — first-line treatment

  • Sleep education: how sleep works and what affects it

  • Stimulus control and sleep restriction techniques

  • Managing sleep anxiety, racing thoughts, and perfectionism

  • Relaxation, grounding, or breath-based practices

  • Sleep diary tracking and personalised feedback

  • Tools to reduce screen dependency or nighttime worry

  • Rebuilding confidence in your ability to sleep

  • Optional lifestyle and nutritional support

  • Flexible pace for neurodivergent or trauma-affected clients

  • Online or in-person sessions

  • Support with tapering off unhelpful sleep medications (in collaboration with psychiatry)

  • Short- or medium-term therapy (typically 4–10 sessions)

Our approach
 

Our approach to Insomnia

At Bloomfield Health, we treat insomnia with care, curiosity, and compassion — not just sleep tips or strict routines. Our clinicians use gold-standard CBT-I methods, while adapting to your identity, needs, and preferences. We understand how anxiety, trauma, neurodivergence, or life demands can disrupt sleep, and we help you restore trust in your body’s natural rhythm. We’re flexible, trauma-informed, and focused on progress, not perfection.

 

CBT-I is a specific, evidence-based approach for insomnia that targets the thoughts, behaviours, and habits that disrupt sleep.

We’ll guide you through structure that supports sleep, but we always adapt to your life, work, and energy levels.

Yes — we take a trauma-informed approach and incorporate stabilisation before addressing sleep directly if needed.

In many cases, yes — and we’ll support you in collaboration with your GP or psychiatrist if appropriate.

Yes — and we adapt our approach to sensory needs, attention patterns, and routines that support your brain.

That’s very common — and still treatable. CBT-I has strong results even for chronic sleep problems.

Please contact us to arrange an initial session. We’ll explore your sleep history and build a tailored plan to help you rest.

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