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

So far, my only "complaint" is that I can only list one sleep session per day. I have insomnia. Sometimes, I don't fall asleep until after midnight. But then, I'll fall asleep before midnight on the same day. I can only list one session. And can not remove a previously listed session to get "on track" either. This leads to an inaccurate accounting of my sleep and paints an incomplete picture of my sleep patterns.

Simple and easy app to keep track of sleep. also includes exercises to help you relax, tips for common sleep problems, and quizzes to help you reveal where you are, sleep-wise. Makes it easy to show medical providers your sleep trends, and also, easy-to-read graphs help you identify your own sleep-patterns. I've used this in a couple Cbt-i group therapies. Simplifies the whole process. This app was recommended to me by several doctors over the years. And the price helps me sleep easy.

This app doesn't give any suggestions. It will let me know that I have problems, give me a prompt that I have issues, but won't actually tell me what I need to do. It only sends me to a page where there's motivational quotes. I think this is a developer issue. One star to flag issue. Please fix so I can use the app as intended and give five starts!

What’s new

fix for the notification bug