Nightmare Disorder Treatment in Austin
Take back your nights with evidence-based treatment for chronic nightmares and Nightmare Disorder.
CBT-Nightmares specialist Jessica Fink LCSW-S
Nightmare Disorder Treatment Austin: Overcome Nightmares and Sleep Restfully
You wake up sweating and hyperventilating.
You can’t sleep. In the course of a single night, you can wake up multiple times with extremely vivid, graphic, and often times violent and disturbing dreams. You are exhausted all day, chronically sleep-deprived, and unable to function.
The Struggle to Find Peace After Nightmares
Even if you are lucky to get some sleep, you can’t find peace.
It’s so cruel! You wonder how your brain even comes up with this awful stuff. It feels SO REAL no matter how terrifying, disturbing, or disgusting. Once you wake from the nightmare, you can’t get back to sleep. Not that you want to sleep more, because then you’d just start the cycle of nightmares all over.
You are tired but wired, dragging yourself throughout the day, feeling grouchy and worn out.
Nightmares have consumed your sleep. Take back your nights with the help of nightmare disorder treatment in Austin. Reach out today to schedule a free consultation.
Take Back Your Nights with Nightmare Treatment in Austin
Nightmares have consumed your sleep. Take back your nights with the help of nightmare disorder treatment in Austin. Reach out today to schedule a free consultation.
Anxiety About Sleep? You're Not Alone
As much as the day sucks, you absolutely dread the night. The anxiety just builds and builds and builds. You know you need sleep but you are terrified to sleep. You feel damaged, broken, and lost as you try everything from sleeping as little as possible to sleeping with a light on to sleeping in spurts.
Nightmares Are More Than Occasional Bad Dreams
Most people have a nightmare once in a while. Nightmare Disorder is different.
People with Nightmare Disorder experience recurring nightmares that disrupt sleep, create distress, and often lead to anxiety about going to bed. Some begin avoiding sleep altogether because they fear what will happen once they fall asleep.
We tend to associate nightmares with PTSD, and they are a common symptom. However, nightmares can be a problem in people with no trauma history, people with Narcolepsy, and people with Sleep Apnea. They can also be a medication side effect.
Nightmares rarely occur in isolation.
Many people who struggle with nightmares also experience insomnia, sleep anxiety, trauma-related sleep disruption, or excessive daytime fatigue. Treatment often improves not only the nightmares themselves, but also the quality and consistency of sleep overall.
Reclaim Your Sleep with CBT-Nightmares in Austin
Your sleep has been completely overrun by nightmares.
Most people are surprised to learn that nightmares have an evidence-based treatment. You don’t have to carry them around for the rest of your life.
I am a nightmare disorder treatment specialist in Austin who helps nightmare sufferers take back control of their nights.
Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Nightmares (CBT-N) you will learn how your brain has created the habit of producing nightmares and you will be given the tools to break the habit so that you can sleep without fear.
CBT-N is an effective and evidence-based treatment for nightmares. It is approximately 6 sessions and is highly structured.
Wake up feeling like you actually slept! CBT-N in Austin with expertise in eliminating nightmares can get you there. Reach out today to schedule your free phone consultation.
What to expect from nightmare disorder treatment in Austin:
Education
Sleep habit modification
Relaxation
Exposure
Rescripting
Imagery rehearsal
How Nightmare Disorder Treatment in Austin Can Help with Nightmares
If you are averaging at least one nightmare per week then CBT-N in Austin can help you.
My clients range from having prior PTSD treatment with nightmares lingering to those having no significant trauma history but still have sleep plagued by distressing dreams. Nightmares are also common in people with narcolepsy and sleep apnea. In my experience with this treatment you will experience:
Fewer nightmares
Less intense nightmares
Returning to sleep more easily
No longer feeling controlled by the nightmares
Less impact during the day
Ready to sleep again? Contact a nightmare disorder treatment specialist in Austin
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Ready to sleep without fear?
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation and learn whether nightmare disorder treatment may be right for you.
Frequently asked questions for a sleep specialist in Austin
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If you have repeated and intense nightmares, you might have nightmare disorder. You may or may not have a trauma history (some do and some don’t). If nightmares are causing you to avoid sleep or impacting your day, CBT for Nightmares is a good option.
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No. Often they are, but not always. Some people with nightmares have no trauma history. Nightmares frequently show up in Narcolepsy and Sleep Apnea. They can also be a medication side effect.
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Of course! I was trained to think of nightmares as a learned habit in the brain. Your thoughts go down the same path every night because that’s what they always do. There is something about engaging with the nightmare during the day and on your terms that allows your brain to go down a different path and you to finally get some peace!
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CBT-N is an evidence-based treatment for nightmares that pulls from multiple other treatments: Image Rehearsal Therapy for nightmares Exposure, Relaxation, and Rescripting Therapy for nightmares; Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD, and CBT for Insomnia.
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The curriculum is 6 sessions plus an intake session so anticipate 7 sessions total. It depends on how many nightmares we target.
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Why wouldn’t you? Most people find peace when they sleep; you find terror. A nightmare comes at you when you are at your most vulnerable and you feel completely defenseless. The good news is that you aren’t.