Sleep coaching is a multi-disciplinary way to treat insomnia, snoring, apnea, and other sleep problems. Practical suggestions ("sleep hygiene"), breathing retraining, anxiety management, and functional medicine are all used to find the source of the sleep problem and rectify it.
Sleep Hygiene is a term for behaviors and environmental factors that can affect sleep. Examples include temperature, room lighting, exercising or reading before bed, winding down from a busy day and many more. It can also include what time you go to bed and try to wake up.
Many people address some of these factors before seeking out a Sleep Coach. Some of them are easy to overlook or counter-intuitive. A sleep coach will address these first as they are the easiest to execute.
A Sleep Coach meets with a client, either in person or virtually. During the first session, we work together to investigate what problem the client wants to solve. We then go deeper to find the roots of the problem, whether they stem from breathing, or sleep hygiene, or anxiety or stress, or physical, dietary, or hormonal issues.
Some solutions are straightforward to find and implement, and some are more complex.
In follow-up sessions, we assess your progress. If things are moving in the right direction, we continue and add extra levels. If something is not helping, we determine why and either fine-tune it or replace it with something else.
A typical program is three months. Some progress is often seen very quickly. Full relief will take a little longer.
A typical program runs between $2,500 and $3,500, depending if functional medical testing is done.
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