Practitioner Course

How to Overcome Insomnia

Your patient’s health immediately falters with poor sleep. How do you help them recognise poor sleep hygiene? How do you help them if they’re not sleeping well?
Format

Online Course
1 lesson

Availability

12 Months OR Subscriber Pass

Duration

90 min/lesson
1.5 Hours total

Presenter

Greg Potter PhD

About this course

If your patient is not sleeping well there’s an immediate limit on how well they can get. Our patient’s health immediately falters with poor sleep even though they may not be aware of it. How do you help your clients recognise poor sleep hygiene? How do you know if they are sleeping well and how can you help them if they’re not? Dr Greg Potter has a PhD in sleep science and has prepared a presentation on why we need to address and how to address our patient’s sleep.

The discussion will first explore what good sleep health really is, viewing sleep problems through a transdiagnostic sleep and circadian biology lense. The focus will then move to some of the causes and consequences of insomnia before covering the fundamental sleep health behaviours that we should all be doing, regardless of our sleep issues. Finally, Greg will highlight the cornerstones of using cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia and turn to promising, novel ways of mitigating insomnia, such as intensive sleep retraining, lucid dreaming, and effective wearable devices.
What you receive:
  • Clear protocol explanations from some of the world's top practitioners
  • Clinical pearls for improved practice results
  • Access to your audio and video recordings via the App Store
  • A downloadable PDF of the presenter’s slides
  • Links to all referenced research papers and useful clinical handouts
  • Access to the community hub where you can get answers to your questions
  • A 30-day money back guarantee

From this course you will

  • What healthy sleep really is
  • The causes and consequences of insomnia
  • What are the prerequisites for healthy sleep
  • Behavioural therapies for insomnia
  • Cognitive therapies for insomnia
  • Supplementation for sleep
  • Intensive sleep retraining
  • Lucid dreaming training as a promising treatment for insomnia
  • Wearables that might actually help improve sleep

What's in this course

Your Presenter

Greg Potter PhD

Greg Potter PhD has a Master of Science from Loughborough University and gained his PhD on sleep, circadian rhythms, nutrition, and metabolism in 2018 from University of Leeds. Greg helps a range of individuals improve their health and performance, from elite athletes to CEOs.

Highlights of Greg’s career so far include coaching a sprinter to four gold medals in his category at the European Championships; having his research featured in dozens of international news outlets, including the BBC, Reuters, and The Washington Post; working with the US Naval Special Warfare Command; and helping to prepare two men to break the Atlantic rowing World Record; and being the sleep expert in an upcoming Channel 4 documentary on sleep and weight loss.