Built around your specific insomnia
Your session is generated from your own consultation. We ask whether you struggle to fall asleep, stay asleep, both — and what the loop sounds like. Built around your specifics.
Chronic insomnia is a conditioned hyperarousal state in which the sleep environment cues alertness rather than descent. The bed becomes the trigger for the pattern it's meant to solve.
Acute insomnia — a few bad nights in a row from stress, jet lag, illness — is common and self-resolving. Chronic insomnia is different. It is a learned hyperarousal pattern: the brain has associated the bedroom, the act of getting into bed, and the time of night with wakefulness. The body produces alertness when the day should produce sleep. Each bad night reinforces the pattern. CBT-I (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia) is the gold-standard treatment because it directly addresses the conditioning.
Common drivers: an initial trigger (stress, illness, life event) that becomes a chronic pattern through compensatory behaviours — going to bed early, staying in bed longer, trying harder. The trap is trying to force sleep, which is the exact opposite of what sleep requires. The work that lasts breaks the conditioning and restores the underlying state.
Tired until bedtime, then wired. The act of going to bed itself triggers the alertness loop.
Asleep until 3am, then awake until 5. Often a cortisol-spike pattern with attached worry-loop.
Each glance at the time adding to the activation. The arithmetic of remaining sleep amplifying the panic.
The harder you try to sleep, the more impossible it becomes. The signature paradox of insomnia.
Sleep elsewhere — sofa, hotel, somebody else's — and you sleep. Your bed has become the cue for wakefulness.
Mind racing with tomorrow's tasks at 3am. The cognitive hyperarousal signature.
Insomnia is conditioned hyperarousal — the bed and the night have been associated with alertness. CBT-I targets the conditioning directly with stimulus-control and sleep-restriction protocols. It's the most effective treatment available and should be the first line for chronic insomnia. The session is not a replacement for CBT-I — it works alongside it on the underlying autonomic state.
Hypnotherapy is a parasympathetic-dominant state by mechanism. The session offers the system a route into descent that the conditioning has blocked. With repetition the bedroom is gradually re-associated with the settled state. Used alongside CBT-I, it accelerates the re-conditioning. The American Psychological Association recognises hypnotherapy as an evidence-based psychological approach.
Most sleep content is hygiene advice. Useful, often already known. The session works on the conditioned hyperarousal underneath, alongside CBT-I if you're doing it.
Your session is generated from your own consultation. We ask whether you struggle to fall asleep, stay asleep, both — and what the loop sounds like. Built around your specifics.
The session works on the autonomic state that the bedroom has been conditioned to trigger. New associations are introduced with repetition.
Three short voice recordings during the consultation are analysed for emotional tone. Insomnia-pattern signature shows in voice; the session is calibrated accordingly.
Every Hypnotrack pathway is built on clinical frameworks from a qualified hypnotherapist — registered, National Hypnotherapy Society (HYP16-03742).
The Sleep & Recovery pathway is designed for the specific shapes insomnia takes. Some may sound familiar.
Tired until bed, wired at bed. The session works on the activation that triggers when the bedroom does.
The 3am awakening loop. The session supports return-to-sleep when the worry-loop activates.
Trying to sleep makes it impossible. The session works on letting-go-of-sleep-as-a-goal.
Started with one bad week, never went away. The session breaks the conditioning that locked in.
Watching your sleep data has made it worse. The session works on the orthosomnic vigilance loop.
Stuck awake at 3am for hours. The session offers a route back into descent.
Your session is around 15 minutes of personalised hypnotherapy audio. It opens with breath and grounding work — the entry into the parasympathetic state insomnia blocks.
It moves into recognition of your specific insomnia pattern. New patterns are introduced: bedroom as cue for descent rather than alertness, the felt sense of letting go of trying, the body relearning the route into sleep. Future-pacing — what nights feel like with the hyperarousal loop broken. Yours forever, designed to be listened to in bed as a re-conditioning practice.
Built from your own consultation — your specific insomnia, your own language, the version of you whose bed cues descent.
We won't promise sleep tonight. Chronic insomnia is a learned pattern that took months or years to develop and takes weeks to months to undo. The session is supportive — for chronic insomnia, please also explore CBT-I, which has the strongest evidence base. Many sleep clinics and NHS services offer it.
If insomnia is severe, accompanied by daytime impairment, or persisting beyond a few weeks, please see your GP and request CBT-I or a sleep clinic referral. NHS insomnia guidance.
Variable. Subjective improvement often within 2–4 weeks of consistent listening alongside good sleep hygiene. Chronic insomnia is a slower arc — months — and works best with CBT-I in parallel.
Yes — designed for it. Headphones at low volume, lights off, ready to sleep. The session is timed to support descent rather than to require attention.
No. CBT-I is the gold-standard treatment for chronic insomnia and you should access it through your GP or via Sleepio. The session works alongside CBT-I, not instead of it.
Yes — many people use the session alongside prescribed medication. Coordinate any reduction or discontinuation with your GP — never stop sleep medication abruptly.
The session can be re-listened to in the middle of the night to support return-to-sleep, though many people find getting up briefly and using the session in a chair more effective than fighting in bed.
Around 15 minutes. Delivered within 30 minutes. Yours forever.
No specific belief is required. You remain in control throughout.