Profession: Clinical Psychologist
Jessica Weatherford Featured
Struggling with insomnia can leave you feeling drained, frustrated, and stuck in a cycle of sleepless nights and exhausting days. If you’re ready for a change, effective help is available.
At Catalyst Psychology, I offer expert Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)—the gold standard for insomnia treatment—through a structured, personalized process designed to get you real results. This evidence-based approach helps you rebuild healthy sleep habits, calm racing thoughts, and finally get the deep, restorative sleep you need to feel like yourself again.
Most clients experience meaningful improvements within just 7–10 sessions, including falling asleep faster, waking up less during the night, and feeling more energized and focused during the day. We’ll work together to create ...
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Siew Chung MAH Featured
Siew Chung is a registered Clinical Psychologist with a special interest in behavioural sleep medicine, particularly the assessment and treatment of insomnia, circadian rhythm sleep–wake disorders, and nightmare disorder. He has extensive clinical and teaching experience in the management of depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders within Singapore's public primary healthcare system.
He holds a Master of Clinical Psychology from HELP University, Malaysia, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Sleep Medicine from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Siew Chung is currently pursuing a Professional Doctorate in Clinical Neuropsychology at Universiti Sains Malaysia. In addition to his formal academic training, he has received additional training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for insomnia an ...
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Betsy Stade, PhD Featured
Betsy Stade, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and research scientist at Stanford University. She specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Dr. Stade earned her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania where she completed training in cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I). She has a small private practice in San Francisco and offers virtual therapy throughout California.
Dr. Stade completed her predoctoral residency at the VA Palo Alto, and received advanced postdoctoral training at Stanford University. She also holds a Bachelor's degree from Barnard College of Columbia University. She is the author of numerous academic articles on cognitive and behavioral processes in the mood and anxiety disorders.
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Ayala Ofek, Psy.D. Featured
I am a licensed clinical psychologist with practice locations in Santa Monica and Los Angeles, California and a Clinical Associate Professor at the UCLA Psychology Department. My practice is focused on providing evidence-based treatments including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia. I treat individuals and couples with anxiety, depression, sleep difficulties, and relationship concerns, among other issues. I am deeply committed to helping people live healthy, rich, lives in ways that are scientifically backed and proven to succeed.
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Joshua Tal, PhD Featured
I'm a caring and direct psychologist with a specialty in sleep disorders, especially severe, chronic insomnia. I use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) to help you to get the sleep your body needs. CBT-I is a rapid and effective treatment. In fact, 85% of clients who complete my CBT-I protocol reach their sleep goals in as little as 4-8 sessions. Good night insomnia. Stop letting your worries or your medications dictate your sleep. Let's work togethers to re-start your mind and your body's connection to sleep.
I also treat other mood, anxiety, trauma, compulsion and substance challenges. I empower my clients to increase resilience to stress using manageable steps and inner strengths. In addition, I treat mental health symptoms related to severe health crises, such as a co ...
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John Tzanos Featured
John Tzanos, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, and Washington who provides telehealth Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) for adults with chronic insomnia and related sleep difficulties.
Dr. Tzanos helps clients understand and change the patterns that keep insomnia going, including conditioned arousal at bedtime, sleep-related worry, irregular sleep schedules, unhelpful compensatory behaviors, nighttime anxiety, and the exhausting effort to “force” sleep. His work is practical, structured, and evidence-based, with a focus on helping clients build a steadier, more consistent relationship with sleep.
CBT-I sessions may include core components such as sleep scheduling, sleep restriction or sleep compression, stimulus control, cognitive stra ...
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Ashley Brauer Featured
I am a licensed clinical psychologist and Board Certified Behavioral Sleep Medicine specialist providing virtual CBT-I and sleep therapy for adults with insomnia, sleep anxiety, circadian rhythm concerns, and persistent sleep difficulties.
My work is grounded in behavioral sleep medicine and evidence-based treatment for insomnia, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I). I also work with sleep concerns related to stress, recovery, performance, and demanding schedules.
My advanced training in behavioral sleep medicine included mentorship through the Sleep Research Society.
I am licensed in Minnesota, New York, and Iowa and authorized to provide telepsychology in participating PSYPACT states.
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Max Shannon Featured
Dr. Max Shannon is a clinical psychologist specializing in anxiety disorders including insomnia and panic disorder. He currently offers telehealth services in Washington state and California. Treatment is flexible, collaborative and tailored to each individual client's needs. Max is well versed in the additional issues that many people with insomnia experience and offers both behavioral and interpersonal approaches in individual therapy. Together we will understand how insomnia works, treat your sleep problems and develop strategies for a future where sleep no longer causes you stress.
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Jessica Carlile Featured
Dr. Jessica Carlile is a clinical psychologist specializing in behavioral sleep medicine and trauma-related disorders. She offers evidence-based, culturally responsive care for adults struggling with insomnia, nightmares, circadian rhythm dysfunction, hypersomnia/narcolepsy, and sleep movement disorders, as well as PTSD, anxiety, and chronic health conditions.
With a warm, structured, and collaborative approach, Dr. Carlile integrates behavioral and interpersonal therapies to help patients improve sleep, emotional well-being, and overall quality of life. She brings deep expertise in treating the complex challenges that often accompany sleep disturbances.
Dr. Carlile provides telehealth services to residents of Washington state and over 40 PSYPACT-participating states. With a backgrou ...
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Rachel Freund Featured
Dr. Rachel Freund has a passion for helping adults restore their sleep health and move forward to what is most meaningful to them. She has extensive and specialized training in contemporary, evidence-based therapies that target insomnia, nightmares, and CPAP anxiety/compliance. Additionally, Dr. Freund specializes in treating individuals with post-traumatic stress, anxiety disorders, and substance use problems, whether in the context of sleep disturbances or not. She provides care in WA and via telehealth to individuals in PSYPACT states.
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Aviva Gaskill Featured
I attended Yeshiva University's Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology for a PhD in Clinical Psychology with Health Emphasis and graduated in 2011. While there, I learned about health psychology and received lectures on CBT-I from doctoral level providers at Montefiore Hospital and researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. I continue to work with children, young adults, adults, and older adults utilizing CBT-I. Because I often work with individuals managing chronic pain and fatigue (and a variety of medical conditions where sleep is directly impacted such as multiple sclerosis and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome), these skills have served me well and been incredibly useful in my practice. I am a practitioner listed through the Penn MS Center as well as many other clinics and receive re ...
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Jacqueline Davis-Wright, Ph.D. Featured
Dr. Davis-Wright is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in treatment of trauma, insomnia, substance use disorders, and anxiety. She completed an APA-accredited internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, where she received specialized training Behavioral Sleep Medicine. Dr. Davis-Wright is passionate about helping individuals to improve their quality of sleep and overall quality of life. She provides CBT-I and can also help individuals adjust to CPAP use. Through her work in hospital settings, Dr. Davis-Wright has extensive experiencing providing sleep-focused treatment to diverse individuals with many co-occurring mental and physical health concerns, including sleep apnea, chronic pain, anxiety, trauma, and substance use issues.
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Richard Blackburn Featured
Dr. Rick Blackburn is a Fellow of the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine and is board certified by the Board of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, and the American Board of Sleep Medicine. He has been practicing behavioral sleep medicine since 2011. He is the Insomnia and Behavioral Health Sleep Medicine Director for Nystrom and Associates, and in addition to his clinical practice, runs the department and trains new clinicians. He treats all behavioral sleep disorders ages 6+.
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Randy Nolte, Psy.D. Featured
Hello. My name is Dr. Randy Nolte. I have been in practice for over 15 years now and I am obsessed with sleep - how to understand sleep issues, how to improve the quality of sleep, and how to enhance the way we feel during the day. Bad sleep can have a profound impact on so many things, including our mood and anxiety, relationships, outlook on life, and productivity. Many of my clients are wanting to improve the quality of their sleep and improve the quality of their time spent awake. I have found CBT-I to be an essential part of this process.
I earned a degree in Psychology (B.A.) from The George Washington University before conducting research on anxiety at The George Washington University Hospital. I earned a Master’s of Counseling Psychology (M.A.) from New York University and a ma ...
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Sara Michelson Featured
I am a doctoral-level licensed psychologist based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, offering telehealth services to clients in North Carolina, New York, and PSYPACT participating states. I am dedicated to providing treatment that is supportive, scientifically grounded, and individually tailored to your unique needs.
I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Comparative Literature from the University of Copenhagen and a Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) in Clinical Psychology from Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. My professional training includes work at Northwestern University, The University of Chicago, VA hospitals, and Yale University.
I am a licensed psychologist with over 15 years of clinical experience, including extensive training in diagnostic interviewing and psycholog ...
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Craig I. Springer, PhD Featured
If you are feeling completely exhausted, overwhelmed, or stuck in a cycle of restless nights, I want you to know that you don’t have to just live with it. As a psychologist, I partner with motivated adults, busy professionals, and high-level executives who are running on empty and need a practical, step-by-step plan to get their energy and life back. I specialize in helping people break free from sleep struggles, whether your insomnia is a standalone issue or is being driven by other challenges like anxiety, constant stress, panic, OCD, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, or major life transitions. To help you get your sleep back on track quickly, I use the highly effective CBT-I protocol developed by Dr. Gregg D. Jacobs, blending it naturally with other proven tools like TEAM-CBT, ...
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Dan Cheney Featured
Dr. Cheney's approach to health psychology is collaborative and rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). He works with both patients and medical providers as needed on a wide range of health-related concerns. Dr. Cheney has successfully helped many people overcome, or cope with, insomnia, circadian rhythm disorders, CPAP desensitization, nightmares, chronic pain, headaches, nicotine addiction, chronic illness, terminal illness, diabetes, obesity, nutritional difficulties, and more.
Dr. Cheney received specialized postdoctoral training in health psychology, primary care psychology, and specialty mental health care at the White River Junction VA Medical Center. During his advanced training, Dr. Cheney mastered the use of CBT-I and CBT-CP as well as other health psychology interventi ...
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Carin Lefkowitz, Psy.D. Featured
Sleep disruption is unfortunately very common. However, it is also very treatable. I utilize evidence-based treatments to address insomnia and related issues such as nightmares and sleep-related anxiety. I am trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBTI), Brief Behavioral Treatment of Insomnia (BBTI), and treatments for nightmare disorder. After getting to know you and your goals, we can collaboratively choose a treatment that makes sense for you. Some of the most dramatic improvements I've seen have been in Veterans who resolved 40+ years of insomnia after just a handful of treatment sessions. And unsurprisingly, many other areas of life improve quickly once sleep improves.
I have been providing CBTI for over 10 years, having completed my training and certification wi ...
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Kathryn E. (Kathy) Angell Featured
If a medical doctor has ruled out medical causes of your sleep difficulties, it is likely that I am in a good position to help you. Sleep problems can stem from such wide-ranging causes as depressed mood, grief, intrusive distressing thoughts that won't leave you alone -- even if you don't really believe them, traumatic events in your past, life stress, how much coffee/caffeine you drink, pain, and unhelpful sleep habits or thoughts about sleep. I am a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist and Certified Gottman Couples Therapist who has specialized expertise in identifying the root of your sleep problem and related difficulties and in treating these problems using specific interventions for each of the above causes that scientific research has demonstrated to be effective in reducing your sleep ...
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Bruce A. Levine, Ph.D., ABPP Featured
Following a Ph.D.. degree from Hofstra University's Department of Psychology in New York, Dr. Levine completed a 2-year Poist Doctoral Fellowship in Behavioral Therapy at Temple University Medical School in Philadelphia. He was appointed as Chief Psychologist at Mt Sinai South Nassau Medical Center in New York and as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. After moving to California in 2012 he became a clinical psychologist at the UCLA School of Medicine in Los Angeles and opened a private practice in Beverly Hills and at the Cedars Sinai Medical Tower in Los Angeles. He is licensed in CA, HI, NY, FL and KS.
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