Bonet, Elizabeth

*Certified in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT­I): Evidence­ based Insomnia Interventions for Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, Chronic Pain, TBI, Sleep Apnea and Nightmares.
*Certified Hypnosis Sleep Specialist
*Member of the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, the American Counseling Association, and The International Society for Clinical And Experimental Hypnosis, and The International Certification Board of Clinical Hypnotists.

Insomnia is my speciality because I struggled with it too most of my life. It started in childhood and just got worse in adulthood. I would try to fall asleep and lie awake wondering what I couldn't. Or on nights when I could fall asleep, I would wake up hours later, far before dawn, staring at the ceiling for hours, and wondering when it would finally be ok for me to get out of bed.

Crazy college hours. Becoming a mom. Crazy baby and kid hours! The anxiety of working as a single mom supporting my kids. Believe me, I’ve been there!

I first started studying insomnia 30 years ago. My honors thesis in undergraduate college at the University of Texas at Austin was on sleep and anxiety. Then I continued my studies and earned my PhD in Clinical Psychology. Afterwards, I went to work in the high pressure corporate world where what I was doing impacted the whole company. Years later, I went back to being a psychotherapist and started a private practice where I saw clients for all kinds of problems, and specialized in anxiety and sleep.

Before being trained in CBT-I and Hypnosis . . .
I used to struggle trying to help my own clients with sleep. They would do everything on the “You should try” list and come back and say it didn’t work.

After being trained in CBT-I and Hypnosis . . .
I finally have something to offer my clients that works for them as well as myself!