Colleen E. Carney, Ph.D., CPsych

Dr. Colleen E. Carney is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Ryerson University, where she is Director of the Sleep and Depression Laboratory. Dr. Carney’s research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Sleep Foundation and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and her most recent clinical trial was featured in the New York Times.

Dr. Carney has over 20 years of clinical and teaching experience and is an expert in Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) for Insomnia. She is best known for training professionals in CBT for insomnia in the context of complex co-occuring conditions such as depression, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, trauma, cancer, anxiety and pain disorders. She has over 100 publications and was the author of the first self-help book for evidence based treatment of comorbid insomnias.

Dr. Carney’s book and the training materials she helped to develop, are currently being used in the nationwide rollout of CBT-I training of Veteran’s Affairs Administration healthcare providers.

www.drcolleencarney.com