I am a clinical psychologist specializing in Behavioral Sleep Medicine. One of the things I like most about my work is being able to help people improve their lives through better sleep. It’s amazing to witness someone go from feeling controlled by their sleep problems to being confident in their ability to improve their sleep and cope with the bad nights that become fewer and fewer. My experience with Behavioral Sleep Medicine began in 2006 after I graduated from Albion college and got a job as a research assistant at the University of Michigan Sleep and Circadian Research Laboratory, which was then called the Sleep and Chronophysiology Laboratory. There, I worked on a variety of sleep research studies, mostly funded by the National Institutes of Health, on topics such as sleep and depression, sleep regulation in alcohol dependence, and non-drug treatments for insomnia. I then earned my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Arizona, working with Dr. Richard Bootzin, a pioneer in the field of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, from 2010 until his death in 2014. My training took me back to Michigan for a pre-doctoral internship at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. I then completed my training with a postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University.