Norah Simpson

Dr. Norah Simpson is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in non-drug treatment of sleep disorders. She has been treating patients with behavioral sleep medicine approaches for over 15 years. Dr. Simpson is the training director of the APA-accredited clinical psychology postdoctoral fellowship program in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford and also leads the behavioral sleep medicine fellowship track that is a part of the Stanford Sleep Health and Insomnia Program (SHIP). She is actively involved in clinical research and training of healthcare providers in behavioral sleep medicine approaches. Dr. Simpson treats adults and adolescents with sleep disorders, and has a particular interest in helping patients reduce/eliminate hypnotic medication with successful treatment of their sleep disorders.

Dr. Simpson earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania (2008) and completed her clinical internship at the Alpert Brown School of Medicine (2008). She has completed post-doctoral fellowships at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School (T32 in Sleep, Respiratory, and Circadian Neurobiology, [2011]), and the Stanford Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences (2013).