Learn how to easily fall asleep and enjoy a full night's rest
— Christy Reynolds.
Registered member of the British Sleep Society and the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
About Christy Reynolds
Christy Reynolds is a highly specialist systemic psychotherapist with ten year’s experience supporting individuals and families across the NHS, social care, and third sector. Her passion is working with people to overcome their sleep issues so they can live a rich and fulfilling life.
After graduating from the University of Oxford, Christy trained as a social worker and worked in local authority and school settings. Inspired by these contexts, she went on to complete her psychotherapy trainings (systemic psychotherapy and EMDR), and has specialised in supporting people with complex mental health challenges in the third sector and NHS, including neurodiverse populations and clients who have experienced significant trauma.
Seeing the issues the majority of her clients faced with sleep, Christy became passionate about helping people to improve their nights so they could feel and function better during the day, and completed further specialist training in cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia.
She is a registered member of the British Sleep Society (BSS) and the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).
Christy sees clients online as well as face to face in her consulting room in Sydenham Hill, London.
Sleep Restore Programme
Get the most out of the day by getting your best sleep at night with the Sleep Restore Programme, using cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (or CBT-I), the NHS and NICE recommended firstline treatment for insomnia.
- Are you an adult, routinely struggling to fall asleep each night, even after a long, exhausting day?
- Do you find yourself awake in the night, or waking too early in the morning, and unable to get back to sleep no matter how hard you try?
- Do you worry about the thought of going to bed, uncertain and afraid of what each night will bring?
- Maybe your career is suffering because you’re lacking motivation and concentration caused by poor sleep?
- Are you worried that not sleeping is putting strain on your relationships?
- Perhaps taking sleeping tablets is no longer working. You feel just as exhausted, not knowing which way to turn?
If you have answered yes to any of these questions, then you are likely suffering with insomnia disorder and the Sleep Restore Programme could help you to:
- Feel more motivated with better energy levels
- Improve your quality of sleep and feel well-rested
- Fall asleep easily and sleep through the night
- Feel relaxed about sleep with less sleep anxiety
- Stop taking sleeping pills, even after long-term use.
CBT-I treatment consists of three main components –
- Resetting your circadian rhythm and discovering your unique sleep needs including your ideal sleep duration and chronotype.
- Unpairing the negative association you have developed between sleep and bed and conditioning you to connect bedtime with rest.
- Exploring the beliefs you hold around sleep that may be contributing to your insomnia and developing different ways of thinking about sleep and strategies for calming your mind so that you are in a sufficiently restful state at night to fall asleep.
CBT-I usually works best when there are four treatment sessions of one hour every two weeks. Most clients see significant improvements to their sleep quality in weeks 2-5, and many experience improvement from the first session.
CBT-I is the most highly recommended treatment method for insomnia, with the largest research evidence base to support it. When applied to the problem of sleeplessness, CBTi focuses on developing habits and thought patterns that promote sleep. This is a clinically approved treatment method that doesn’t rely on sleeping pills and which is the gold standard recommended by the NHS and NICE.
To find out more about the sleep restore programme, book a free consultation now.
Sleep Restore Plus
For most people, even with severe and enduring issues with insomnia lasting decades, the four session Sleep Restore Programme works.
However, for others, issues with insomnia go beyond the behaviours and thoughts which interfere with sleep and have deep roots in unresolved emotional difficulties and struggles. This can be due to adverse experiences, but can also be all the more bewildering for those who haven't necessarily experienced obvious ‘traumatic’ events, and who otherwise have a good life. In these situations, anxiety about sleep may have connections to more subtle internal or external conflicts.
Sleep Restore Plus resolves the emotional struggles that often lie at the heart of sleep disturbances, offering a more comprehensive and effective solution to achieving restful sleep. This is particularly helpful for people who have a history of or are currently experiencing depression, anxiety, or PTSD.
What does Sleep Restore Plus Consist of?
Each Sleep Restore Plus programme is a bespoke treatment package, developed with you following thorough assessment.
Typically, it involves 6-10 sessions of integrated EMDR therapy and systemic psychotherapy, in addition to the core framework of CBT-I. EMDR supports clients using the brain’s natural adaptive mechanisms to process painful and stuck memories which impact sleep. Systemic psychotherapy with individuals helps to make sense of and work through the influence of events in one’s family of origin and other relationships, and how this may influence poor sleep in the present.
Ask Me Anything
This is for you if you have mild or occasional struggles with sleep or just want to sense check what you are doing.
Equally, you may have concerns about a loved one and feel at a dead end with how to support them.
You can ask me any questions and query worries you might have.
I will ask for some basic information prior to the call so as not to waste time while we talk.
Then the time is yours, to get whatever you need out of the conversation.
Cost: £110
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