I am a board-certified family medicine physician who delivers Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBTI).
After completing medical school at Mount Sinai in New York City, I relocated to Philadelphia for my residency in Family Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Since 2005, I have worked in private practice as well as large health systems and my clinical practice has been in full-spectrum, community-based care, treating patients ages 0-99+. In addition to my expertise in primary care, I have completed training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia and have completed a Mini-Fellowship for Behavioral Sleep Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
So, why my interest in sleep? After four years of medical school and three years of residency, it was only afte ...
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Dr. Sisco is an internationally recognized trauma recovery specialist. She emphasizes the importance of a developed and appreciated sense of self in the recovery process. This requires clients to share a little deeper and to own the parts of self that have previously been shunned. The concept is alignment. The more truly aligned our internal voice is with our values as well as our representative to the world, the more successful we are in negotiating life with fulfillment and ease. In the process of overcoming the nagging voice inside or the intrusive thoughts of conversation reruns or traumas replaying in the shadows of the minds eye, Dr. Sisco focuses on symptom relief via CBT including applications of the structured CBT-I 6-8 session model to manage insomnia. She is available via ...
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I've been practicing CBT since the 1970s and pivoted my practice to include CBTI following my initial training in 2016. Much of my work now emphasizes trauma-informed behavioral sleep medicine and I regularly attend seminars and workshops in addition to participating in sleep medicine training with the World Sleep Academy. Though I primarily work with insomnia, co-morbid insomnia & sleep apnea (COMISA), and sleep-wake phase misalignment, I also get referrals from physicians to assist their patients in eliminating sleep medications and getting desensitized to CPAP masks. I am licensed as a psychologist in both Florida and Missouri and work exclusively through telehealth using a HIPPA-compliant platform.
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I have been a Behavioral Sleep Therapist for over 25 years and have developed Neuro-Somatic Therapy for Sleep (NST-S), publicly known as SleepEasy. This is an advanced form of cognitive-behavioral therapy based on Polyvagal Theory and the somatic treatment of trauma. This method incorporates specific somatic processes that open the neurological pathways to calm the mind, emotions, and body into sleep.
Since 2009, I have been the sleep therapist for Colorado’s largest primary care practice, which serves over 200,000 patients. I am the sleep therapist for Throttle & Thrive, a residential detox, substance misuse, and mental health facility exclusively for Law Enforcement Personnel, First Responders and Veterans.
In a clinical study published in Sleep Disorders and Therapy, the SleepEas ...
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Dr. Stephens is a board-certified psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner and senior graduate professor of nursing. She is passionate about treating insomnia and other sleep disorders using the least harmful, most effective treatments. Dr. Stephens is licensed in Arizona, Wyoming, Idaho, and Vermont.
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I am a licensed clinical psychologist with over 26 years of service in the U.S. Army National Guard. My training was completed at the Veterans Administration (VA), where I received specialized training and supervision in multiple evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I). My approach to care is integrative, holistic, and transpersonal — attending to the whole person: body, mind, and spirit.
My delivery of CBT-I is informed by an integrative and person-centered framework. I recognize that sleep disturbance rarely exists in isolation — it is often interwoven with anxiety, depression, trauma, and deeply held beliefs about one's capacity to rest and recover. I meet each client where they are, collaboratively identifying the c ...
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