Yes, Nightmares Are Treatable featuring Dr. Courtney Worley, PhD.
About this episode
Dr. Alison Kole discusses the treatability of nightmares with Dr. Courtney Worley, exploring definitions, causes, and effective therapies.
Nightmares aren’t just “bad dreams”—and you don’t have to live with them. In this episode, Dr. Alison Kole sits down with behavioral sleep medicine expert Dr. Courtney Worley to break down what actually defines a nightmare disorder, why nightmares happen (far beyond trauma), and—most importantly—how to treat them. They dive into the gold-standard, evidence-based therapy you’ve probably never been offered (imagery rehearsal therapy), how your brain can be retrained to stop recurring nightmares...
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