CBT-i Coach

US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

About this app

CBT-i Coach is for people who are engaged in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia with a health provider, or who have experienced symptoms of insomnia and would like to improve their sleep habits. The app will guide you through the process of learning about sleep, developing positive sleep routines, and improving your sleep environment. It provides a structured program that teaches strategies proven to improve sleep and help alleviate symptoms of insomnia.

CBT-i Coach is intended to augment face-to-face care with a healthcare professional. It can be used on its own, but it is not intended to replace therapy for those who need it.

CBT-i Coach is based on the therapy manual, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia in Veterans, by Rachel Manber, Ph.D., Leah Friedman, Ph.D., Colleen Carney, Ph.D., Jack Edinger, Ph.D., Dana Epstein, Ph.D., Patricia Haynes, Ph.D., Wilfred Pigeon, Ph.D. and Allison Siebern, Ph.D. CBT-i has been shown to be efficacious for insomnia for both Veterans and civilians.

CBT-i Coach was a collaborative effort between VA’s National Center for PTSD, Stanford School of Medicine, and DoD’s National Center for Telehealth and Technology.

Ratings and reviews

It helps if you're trying to track your sleep, but it's based on how you want to enter the data. Weekly it has a quitionare to help you set up you recommended sleep time. The annoying part is that every week it wants you to answer it again. After several weeks/months, you have your set schedule, but it doesnt offer you a check box to say "no change" so it goes away for the week or not come back at all.

The "Connect to Google Fit" does not work. There is no option to "Connect to Samsung Health". This app is very dated and very behind. It's 2024, please offer current features people actually use. I can understand manually entering sleep data back in 2010, that would make sense; However, it's 2024 and not 2010. Even my bed automatically tracks my sleep. Can I get a "Connect to Sleeptracker"? The app should at least be able to connect to Google Fit. Very disappointed.

Overall this app works well. There are some issues I have noticed regarding calculations varying between the Android and Apple versions. In the Android version, there are two sets of averages on the screen for every score (SE, Time Asleep, etc.). I realized the averages at the top of each chart reflect all entries cumulatively and the averages listed at the bottom of the chart are more in line for the past week's worth of entries. Also there should be a Sleep Need questionnaire in "Assessment"!

What's new

Bug fixes and performance improvements