Therapy or Medication Management for Insomnia
Restoring your ability to sleep, reset, and feel restored.
When Rest Doesn’t Come Easily
Insomnia is more than the occasional sleepless night — it’s when falling or staying asleep becomes a persistent struggle that begins to affect your mood, energy, and focus. Over time, lack of restorative sleep can increase anxiety, worsen depression, and impact physical health.
At La Lune Integrative Psychiatry, we recognize that insomnia is both a mind-body and lifestyle concern. Whether your difficulty sleeping is tied to stress, trauma, shift work, medication changes, or simply an overactive mind, we focus on understanding the full picture before choosing the right treatment path.
Understanding Insomnia
There are several patterns of insomnia:
Sleep-Onset Insomnia: Trouble falling asleep, often due to racing thoughts or heightened alertness.
Sleep-Maintenance Insomnia: Frequent awakenings or difficulty returning to sleep.
Early-Morning Awakening: Waking earlier than desired and being unable to fall back asleep.
Chronic vs. Short-Term: Some insomnia lasts for weeks, others for months or years — often cycling with stress or life changes.
Insomnia can also occur alongside anxiety, depression, trauma, or medical conditions such as thyroid imbalance or sleep apnea. A comprehensive assessment helps identify contributing factors so your care can be precise and effective.
Our Integrative Approach to Sleep Care
We take a whole-person approach to help you regain calm and confidence.
1. Comprehensive Evaluation
We assess your sleep habits, environment, medical history, mental-health background, and medications that may be disrupting sleep. We will order lab tests to rule out any other core causes.
2. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)
The gold-standard, evidence-based therapy for chronic insomnia, CBT-I helps retrain your mind and body to associate bedtime with rest instead of frustration.
3. Medication Management
When indicated, short-term or long-term medications may be used to regulate sleep cycles. We consider melatonin agonists, non-habit-forming options, or low-dose sedating antidepressants when appropriate — tailoring every plan for safety and sustainability.
4. Lifestyle and Mind-Body Strategies
We incorporate relaxation training, mindfulness, breathwork, and circadian rhythm support — including light exposure, nutrition, and movement — to strengthen natural sleep patterns.
5. Collaboration and Follow-Up
Sleep health is dynamic. We adjust treatment as needed, coordinate with primary-care providers and sleep test centers when appropriate, and offer ongoing coaching to help you maintain consistency over time.