Hafina Allen, LCSW ^Featured

If you've been lying awake night after night, exhausted but unable to sleep, you already know that willpower and sleep hygiene tips aren't enough. Chronic insomnia has a way of becoming self-sustaining, the more you try to fix it, the worse it gets. CBT-I breaks that cycle by targeting the thoughts and behaviors that are keeping your sleep broken, without medication and without an indefinite course of treatment.

Most of my clients with insomnia are high-functioning adults who have been managing poor sleep for months or years, often alongside anxiety or depression. They've tried everything they can think of on their own. What they haven't tried is a structured, evidence-based approach designed specifically for the way insomnia actually works.

CBT-I is the gold-standard, first-line treatment recommended by the American College of Physicians, rated above sleep medication for long-term results. The approach is short-term and practical, typically producing meaningful improvement within 6 to 8 sessions. You'll finish with a genuine understanding of your sleep and the tools to protect it going forward.

I'm Hafina Allen, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Board Certified-TeleMental Health Provider with over 20 years of clinical experience, beginning at Mount Sinai Medical Center where I was part of a research team awarded the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine's Licht Award for excellence in scientific writing. I received my MSW from the Silver School of Social Work at New York University and completed my CBT-I training at the Beck Institute. I provide telehealth services to adults across New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, North Dakota and New Hampshire.

If you're ready to stop just surviving your nights, I'd love to connect.