Understand What’s Getting in the Way of Rest.
When sleep becomes difficult, the effects can extend into your mood, focus, energy, and everyday life. Psychotherapy can provide space to explore patterns that may be affecting your sleep and develop strategies that support healthier sleep habits.
Understand Your Sleep Patterns: Explore what affects your rest.
Explore Contributing Factors: Identify what disrupts your sleep.
Develop Healthier Patterns: Build strategies for better sleep.
Better Sleep Can Begin With Understanding What’s Keeping You Awake. Difficulty sleeping can be connected to stress, thoughts, routines, habits, and other experiences. Understanding these patterns can create a starting point for meaningful change.
DR. RENEE CLAUSELLE
UNDERSTANDING INSOMNIA
Look Beyond the Sleepless Night.
Insomnia involves difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or getting the restorative sleep you need. When sleep difficulties persist, they can affect how you feel, think, and function during the day.
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Psychotherapy can help you explore the thoughts, behaviors, stressors, and patterns that may contribute to sleep difficulties while developing practical approaches to support better sleep.
Explore patterns surrounding your sleep.
Identify thoughts, habits, and stressors that may affect rest.
Develop strategies for healthier sleep routines.
Understand how sleep and daily experiences may influence each other.
A PRACTICAL APPROACH
How Psychotherapy Can Support Insomnia Management
Understand Your Sleep
Explore your sleep patterns, routines, and experiences to better understand what may be affecting your rest.
Identify What Keeps You Awake
Look at thoughts, stressors, habits, and behaviors that may make it harder to fall asleep or stay asleep.
Develop Practical Strategies
Explore approaches for managing nighttime thoughts, creating healthier routines, and responding differently to sleep difficulties.
Build Sustainable Habits
Apply what you learn to your everyday routine and make thoughtful adjustments that support healthier sleep patterns.
Difficulty Falling Asleep
When your mind stays active and falling asleep regularly takes longer than you would like.
Frequent Nighttime Waking
When waking during the night makes it difficult to return to sleep and feel rested.
Stress & Sleep
When ongoing stress or worry makes it harder to settle down, fall asleep, or stay asleep.
Racing Thoughts
When thoughts, planning, or mental activity continue when you are trying to settle down.
Sleep & Daily Function
When poor sleep begins affecting your mood, concentration, energy, or everyday responsibilities.
Ongoing Sleep Patterns
When sleep difficulties continue over time and you want to better understand what may contribute.
Meet Dr. Renee Clauselle, Psy.D.
Clinician. Media Expert. Thought Leader.
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With more than 20 years of experience, Dr. Renee Clauselle has worked across clinical psychology, education, and mental health. She served as Director of School Mental Health Services at St. John’s University and taught at St. John’s University and Teachers College, Columbia University.
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She has appeared on Good Morning America and ABC News, bringing psychology and mental health into conversations reaching audiences far beyond the traditional clinical setting.
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Today, she combines psychotherapy, neurofeedback, data-driven insight, speaking, and media to explore a more modern approach to psychology and transformation.
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TESTIMONIALS
Words From Clients.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Frequently Asked Questions
Insomnia involves difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or getting enough restorative sleep, despite having an opportunity to sleep.
Psychotherapy may help you explore thoughts, behaviors, stressors, and habits associated with sleep difficulties and develop strategies to support healthier sleep patterns.
Sessions may involve exploring your sleep patterns, identifying contributing factors, discussing thoughts and behaviors around sleep, and developing practical strategies.
Yes. Stress and ongoing worry can make it more difficult to settle down, fall asleep, or stay asleep.
