Dr. Courtney Worley
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And we see pretty lasting results.
We work with, you know, the sleep stages.
We work with the sleep cycle, improving sleep quality.
And continuity.
We work on reducing hyper arousal.
We work on the nightmare content.
And so it's a really active treatment where you meet with a behavioral provider about
Once a week for an hour, over the course of a month or a month and a half?
then between sessions you're using skills in your day-to-day life to make some of those changes that carry over into sleep and improve sleep quality, continuity, and reduce nightmares over time.
Can you describe to us what imagery rehearsal therapy is?
What is that?
Absolutely.
Imagery rehearsal therapy is the frontline treatment.
It's one of three that usually gets recommended for nightmare treatment, but it's just the one that has the most research.
And we're working to do the research on the others too.
It's just an area where we need to catch up in our science.
But imagery rehearsal therapy takes the idea that nightmares become
scripts and habits over time.
When people have the same nightmare over and over again, their brain is pulling the same imagery that matches the distress.
Oftentimes people are going to bed anxious for a lot of different reasons, but including the fear of having another nightmare.
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