Sleep Reset

When sleep isn’t working, let’s figure out why—and what might actually help.

Sleep can become complicated quickly.

Maybe your child needs you beside them to fall asleep, wakes throughout the night, or bedtime has become a nightly battle. Or maybe you’re the one lying awake with a brain that won’t turn off, waking at 3 a.m., struggling to keep a consistent sleep schedule, or feeling like you’ve tried everything and still aren’t sleeping well.

Sleep Reset is my individualized approach to therapy when sleep has become part of the problem—for children, teens, adults, and families.

Rather than starting with a predetermined sleep method or another list of things you “should” be doing, we’ll get curious about what may actually be getting in the way.

Depending on what’s happening, we might look at stress and anxiety, routines and habits, behavioral patterns, family dynamics, development, the sleep environment, and neurodivergence or sensory needs.

Then we’ll figure out what changes actually make sense for you or your child.

There isn’t one “right” way to sleep.

Sleep advice can be surprisingly rigid.

For parents, it can feel like choosing between approaches that don’t quite fit your child, your family, or your values. For adults, it can mean hearing the same sleep-hygiene recommendations you’ve already tried a hundred times.

I’m less interested in handing you a generic sleep formula and more interested in understanding why sleep isn’t working in the first place.

Is anxiety making it hard to settle down? Has your child learned that falling asleep requires a very specific set of circumstances? Is ADHD making the transition from doing to sleeping especially difficult? Has everyone become so stressed about bedtime that bedtime itself has become stressful? Is something in the routine or environment unintentionally making sleep harder?

Sometimes the answer is straightforward. Sometimes several things are tangled together.

Our job is to understand what’s happening before deciding what needs to change.

For children & families

When a child isn’t sleeping, it rarely affects only the child.

Bedtime can become a two-hour ordeal. Parents start rearranging their own sleep around their child’s. Everyone is exhausted, and strategies that sounded perfectly reasonable on paper somehow fall apart at 2 a.m.

We can work together around concerns such as bedtime struggles, needing a parent present to fall asleep, night waking, early waking, difficult bedtime transitions, inconsistent routines, anxiety around sleep, and sleep challenges related to ADHD, autism, sensory needs, or other individual differences.

And I’m not interested in forcing every child into the same sleep strategy.

We’ll look at your child, your family, and what you’re actually comfortable implementing—and build from there.

For adults

Sometimes you know exactly what you're supposed to do for sleep and you're still not sleeping.

Maybe your mind becomes busiest the second your head hits the pillow. Maybe you stay up later than you intended even though you're exhausted. Maybe your schedule has gotten completely off track, or you've started worrying so much about whether you'll sleep that the worry itself keeps you awake.

We can look at the emotional and behavioral pieces that may be contributing to the problem and work on changing the ones that are actually changeable.

That may include anxiety around sleep, stress, routines, habits, inconsistent schedules, difficulty winding down, or patterns that have developed around being awake at night.

The goal isn't perfect sleep.

It's to make sleep feel less complicated, less stressful, and more workable.

Why my approach to sleep is a little different

My background is in both psychotherapy and behavioral science, and I bring both perspectives to sleep.

As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I’m interested in the emotional side of what’s happening—stress, anxiety, expectations, relationships, and the way our thoughts and experiences can affect sleep.

As a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, I’m also naturally interested in patterns: What happens around sleep? What seems to make things better or worse? What has already been tried? What might be unintentionally keeping the problem going?

I don't think we have to choose between those perspectives.

Sometimes the most helpful change is behavioral. Sometimes it's emotional. Sometimes it's environmental. And often it's a combination.

The goal is to understand the whole picture and figure out what might actually help this particular person sleep better.

A note about medical sleep concerns

Sleep Reset focuses on the emotional, behavioral, and relational factors that can affect sleep. It isn't a substitute for medical evaluation or treatment of a sleep disorder.

If something about your sleep or your child's sleep suggests that a medical issue may be contributing, I'll recommend involving an appropriate medical provider so that we aren't trying to solve a medical problem with therapy.

Interested in Sleep Reset?

If sleep has become stressful, frustrating, or something you've been trying unsuccessfully to solve on your own, you don't need to have figured out exactly what's causing it before reaching out.

That's what we'll get curious about together.

Reach out and mention “Sleep Reset.” We can talk about what's been happening and whether my approach feels like a good fit.