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In Sessions
CBT-I sets a protected wake time, re-associates the bed with sleep, and addresses the thinking that turns one bad night into a catastrophe. We treat sleep deliberately rather than folding it into a general anxiety hour.
Teen Insomnia Treatment
Sleep is the actual clinical problem here, and CBT-I gets practiced every night in the house rather than handed over as a worksheet. Teens ages 12-17 in Southern California keep a protected wake time, and medication is not the plan.
- 30-90 days
- Ages 12-17
- 24/7
What this is
When The Nights Are What Ruin The Days
Insomnia treatment here treats sleep as the main clinical problem, not as a side note to anxiety work. A late night now and then is normal adolescence. Insomnia is a body that cannot fall asleep or a sleep schedule so far off that school is already gone. Sleep hygiene handouts have usually been tried by the time families call, and that is not what this is.
When sleep has taken over everything
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Hours To Fall Asleep
Racing thoughts, a body that will not settle, and the phone as the only thing that helps turn bedtime into a nightly fight nobody wins.
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A Schedule That Has Flipped
Asleep at four in the morning, awake in the afternoon, and a weekend that makes Monday a crisis before the week has even started.
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Broken Nights That Ruin The Next Day
Waking repeatedly, checking the phone, a nightmare, then hours in bed that are not actually sleep, so they cannot function by breakfast.
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Dreading The Bed Itself
The bedroom is where the worry loops, so they avoid it, then cannot sleep in it, and the bed itself starts the anxiety.
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A Day That Falls Apart
Irritability, missed school, nodding off in class, and a mood that looks like depression, because their brain has not had a real night in weeks.
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The Household Revolves Around 2 A.M.
You wait up, screens stay on, mornings become optional, and the family's whole routine now runs on the middle of the night.
Daily life
Where The Sleep Schedule Gets Rebuilt
Therapy sessions, the family's schedule, and staffed overnight hours all treat sleep as the main problem rather than a symptom of something else.
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With Family
Parents learn how to hold a wake time without a war, and what to do about the phone after midnight. We write the plan for Friday night and Saturday morning before the schedule can slip.
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In The House
Lighting, a real wind-down routine, and staffed overnight hours keep the whole house on a consistent schedule, because sleep is a clinical priority here.
Our approach
How We Treat Insomnia Here
A fixed wake time, a bed used only for sleeping, and medication only in rare short courses, because the nights are the actual problem.
- Core of the plan
CBT-I Practiced Every Night
Stimulus control, a fixed wake time, and work on the fear of not sleeping get practiced here nightly, which is the only way any of it sticks.
Treating What Keeps Them Awake
Rumination or unprocessed trauma usually travels with insomnia, and we treat that in the same plan rather than only adjusting the schedule.
Teaching The Body To Wind Down
A nervous system still scanning for problems at midnight needs a reliable way to come down that is not a screen.
A Wake Time The House Protects
A consistent wake time, morning light, and staffed nights are the actual intervention, because willpower alone does not fix a schedule this far off.
- When needed
Sleep Medication, Briefly And Rarely
Any sleep medication is short-term and uncommon here. Behavioral sleep work leads this treatment, and a prescription does not become the plan.
Your part
How To Hold The Morning At Home
Insomnia puts the whole household on the middle of the night. Family work here teaches you a wake time you can actually enforce.
Let them catch up until afternoon.
Protecting The Wake Time
Letting them sleep until mid-afternoon feels like kindness, and it undoes the schedule we just spent a week rebuilding.
Fight about the phone at midnight.
Setting The Device Rule In Daylight
An argument at bedtime only raises their alertness. We write the rule during the day, practice it here, and send it home as a plan.
Let Friday night undo the week.
Planning Friday And Saturday
Friday night, Saturday morning, and Sunday evening all get a written plan that gets practiced here, rather than after the schedule has slipped again.
Academics
Getting Back To Morning Classes
A night that will not end costs your teen the next morning, and the absences add up fast. We rebuild the sleep schedule while school keeps running on site.
A First Period They Can Attend
Our accredited on-site school uses home district coursework, so credits keep accumulating while a protected wake time makes morning class possible again.
Class Still Happens After A Short Night
Academic support runs alongside CBT-I, and we do not cancel the day because last night went badly.
Rehearsing A Real School Morning
Before discharge we practice an early class, the car ride, and a Sunday night that does not slide back into old habits.
Send the transcript, the current schedule, and any IEP or 504 so morning classes match the wake time we are protecting.
Length of stay
30
days in residence, by progress
Most stays run 60 to 90 days. Some finish closer to 30, and a few need longer.
90
How Long Sleep Treatment Takes
A rough stretch may belong in outpatient CBT-I if your teen's day can still start. When sleep has cost them school and their mood, a 30 to 90 day stay provides a schedule the household can genuinely hold. The work happens nightly, and aftercare can run for months afterward.
- The first nights establish a wake time, morning light, and an understanding of what is keeping your teen up, not a sleeping pill on night one.
- Most teens finish in 30 to 90 days based on progress. Some stay longer when the schedule still slips every weekend.
- Aftercare means a written weekly plan, a next clinician trained in CBT-I, and check-ins at 30, 60, and 90 days.
When to call
Call Us. We'll Tell You If This House Fits.
If sleep is costing your teen school, their mood, or your family's mornings, and sleep hygiene advice has already failed, call us. Aaron Earnest and the admissions team will be honest about whether outpatient CBT-I is still enough. If the nights are mostly anxiety rather than a schedule problem, our residential treatment for teen anxiety page fits better. Sleep medication stays brief and uncommon here.