Christine Mason, PhD, DBSM

Professional background

Christine Mason, PhD, DBSM is a health psychologist and board-certified behavioral sleep medicine specialist. She is the founder and principal consultant of Sleep & Change Specialists, LLC, an expert-led clinical and consulting practice working at the intersection of behavioral sleep medicine, circadian science, health psychology, behavior change, and digital health.

Her work spans three connected areas: specialized clinical care for individuals and athletic teams; consulting for digital health, healthcare, wellness, performance, hospitality, and built-environment organizations; and education for clinicians, companies, and the public.

Training

Doctoral training in psychology with specialization in health psychology, followed by supervised specialty training and clinical experience in behavioral sleep medicine leading to board certification as a Diplomate in Behavioral Sleep Medicine (DBSM).

Behavioral sleep medicine is a defined subspecialty with its own certifying credential. It requires documented supervised experience treating sleep disorders behaviorally and successful completion of a certifying examination.

Clinical expertise

• Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I)
• Circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders, including delayed and advanced sleep-wake phase, shift work, and jet lag
• PAP/CPAP adjustment, tolerance, and adherence
• Behavioral support for hypersomnia and narcolepsy, coordinated with sleep physicians
• Sleep medication tapering support, coordinated with the prescribing physician
• Women's sleep across the lifespan, including pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause
• Pediatric behavioral sleep medicine and family sleep
• Sleep, performance, and recovery for competitive athletes and teams

Leadership experience

Clinical program design and implementation: building behavioral sleep medicine services and care pathways, defining scope and referral criteria, developing clinician-facing protocols, and establishing measurement approaches that reflect real clinical endpoints rather than engagement proxies.

Clinical training and supervision, including consultation for clinicians and organizations pursuing behavioral sleep medicine competency and board certification.

Digital health experience

Translation of behavioral sleep medicine into technology-delivered care: intervention design, content and protocol development, clinical logic for adaptive programs, interpretation of consumer and clinical sleep data, and the clinical governance required when sleep measurement is delivered at scale.

Advisory work with organizations developing wearables, consumer sleep technology, digital therapeutics, and remote monitoring — including where consumer measurement is appropriate, where it is not, and how to design around those limits.

Speaking and education

Keynotes, corporate webinars, workshops, panels, professional continuing education, podcast appearances, and media commentary on sleep, circadian rhythm, insomnia, behavior change, sleep technology, and sleep in the workplace.

Credentials, affiliations, and publications

PhD, psychology, with specialization in health psychology. DBSM — Diplomate in Behavioral Sleep Medicine, board certification in the behavioral treatment of sleep disorders.

A complete list of professional affiliations, licensure, research, publications, and speaking engagements is available on request and through her LinkedIn profile. This site lists only credentials and activities that can be verified.

Working with Dr. Mason

Individuals and athletic organizations can review clinical care. Companies and healthcare organizations can review consulting. Event organizers, media, and educators can review speaking and education.