How We Help
At Talking Sleep Psychology we recognise the enormous toll that sleep difficulties take — not just at night, but across the whole of a person’s life. We are here to help you understand what’s happening and find a way through it that actually lasts.
Sleep Problems and Insomnia
Sleep problems take many forms. Some people dread the night before it even arrives — lying awake watching the hours disappear, afraid of what another sleepless night will cost them the next day. Others dread the darkness itself, or the particular aloneness of being awake when the rest of the world is asleep, with only a busy mind for company. And some have quietly stopped expecting sleep to come at all — a flat resignation that can be easy to overlook but is no less worth understanding.
Whatever brings you here, we are interested in the whole picture: what’s happening in your body, your mind, and your life — not just your sleep diary. We offer specialist assessment and treatment using CBT-I (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia), the most evidence-based treatment available for chronic insomnia, alongside Compassion Focused Therapy, ACT, EMDR, and trauma-informed approaches where indicated. Tonia Martin is currently training with the Compassionate Mind Foundation, developing an integrative model of sleep treatment that places nervous system safety and self-compassion at the centre of the work.
Where assessment indicates that a specific experience or period is at the root of the sleep problem, Tonia also uses EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) to help process those memories directly, rather than working around them.