You are ready if your sleep problem has lasted more than a few weeks, you have already tried the standard advice without lasting results, and you are willing to log your sleep daily and show up for one hour a week for six weeks. You are not ready yet if you have untreated sleep apnea, an acute mental health crisis, or severe insomnia that has not been evaluated by a doctor. Get those addressed first, and coaching will work much better.

No. Coaching is education and support, not medical treatment, and it does not create a physician-patient relationship. Sleep apnea needs medical treatment such as CPAP, an oral appliance, or surgery, and the first-line treatment for chronic insomnia is cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) with a trained clinician. What coaching does is help you build and keep the schedule, habits, and mindset that make those treatments work, and address the sleep problems that are about timing, routine, and an over-alert nervous system rather than a disorder. Keep your treating doctor and use coaching alongside them.

Not to start coaching. You do need a sleep evaluation first if you have red flags for a medical sleep disorder: loud snoring or witnessed pauses in breathing, waking with headaches or a dry mouth, falling asleep uncontrollably during the day, restless or kicking legs at night, or unusual nighttime events. In those cases a sleep study (in-lab or at home) can find a problem that coaching alone will not fix. If you are unsure, the intake questions in coaching will flag whether a study is worth pursuing.

About one hour a week for six weeks for the live virtual session, plus a few minutes each day to log your sleep. Most people spend 5–10 minutes a day on the log and the daily steps. The program runs six weeks because that is roughly how long it takes to shift a body clock and retrain a nervous system to feel safe at bedtime.

Yes. Coaching and community are designed to work alongside medical care and therapy, not replace them. Keep your doctor and therapist informed about what you are changing (sleep schedule, light exposure, caffeine, any supplements), and bring anything that comes up in coaching back to them. We do not diagnose, treat, or prescribe.